Example sentences of "a [adj] deal of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that it does may underlie a great deal of the difficulty experienced by many beginning readers . |
| 2 | A great deal of the credit must go to David Coleman . |
| 3 | As we shall show in the later sections , a great deal of the activities of the fans can be understood as symbolic activities in the mode of metonymy . |
| 4 | A great deal of the stepping seems to have been improvised but it also contained the remnants of old dances . |
| 5 | First , he makes a great deal of the struggle with Satan in which Jesus is involved both in the temptation in the wilderness into which the Spirit thrusts him ( Mark 1:12 ) immediately after his baptism ; and also in the healings and exorcisms which follow during the ministry . |
| 6 | A great deal of the spending went on capital projects . |
| 7 | Sir Edmund Hillary has spent much of his life , and a great deal of the determination that took him to the top of Everest , raising funds to help the Sherpa People of the Nepalese Himalaya . |
| 8 | Though you may not want the negative situation to arise and though you may do your best to avoid it , once you know what the worst possible outcome would be and that you could cope with it , a great deal of the anxiety is removed . |
| 9 | A great deal of the success is in the way in which the contract has been handled , and all staff are to be congratulated on a thoroughly professional job in trying and often fraught conditions . |
| 10 | A great deal of the success for the show was due to its writers . |
| 11 | A great deal of the discussion of such topic markers has been concerned with the sentence-internal organization of information as given ( or the topic ) vs. new ( or comment about the topic — see Gundel , 1977 for a review ) . |
| 12 | Gas turbine engines , putting out more than twice the power of the average civilian aircraft , allow a cruising speed of 240 kt — nearly 300 mph — and a great deal of the cruise is spent at 250 ft . |
| 13 | A great deal of the blame must be laid at the feet of those who link regression with occult activities or treat it as some sort of parlour-trick to be practised for fun at parties . |
| 14 | It can not be stressed too strongly that a great deal of the blame for unsatisfactory deeds must lie in the failure of the Scottish legal profession to provide itself with a service for new styles . |
| 15 | On this occasion , in fact , a reply of sorts did occur to me as I stood up there on the ladder ; a reply to the effect that those of our profession , although we did not see a great deal of the country in the sense of touring the countryside and visiting picturesque sites , did actually see more of England than most , placed as we were in houses where the greatest ladies and gentlemen of the land gathered . |
| 16 | A host of small British firms sells small computers and this activity consumes a great deal of the country 's talent in electronics engineering . |
| 17 | On it I shall argue that there is nothing that can not be understood , that there is nothing that can not be explained , and that everything is extraordinarily simple A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation . |
| 18 | Cheese making demanded a great deal of the wife 's time , up to 5 or 6 hours per day . |
| 19 | It is certainly true that a great deal of the competition between nationalists and unionists concerned the distribution of resources . |
| 20 | Since the majority of elderly people requiring help are women , then a great deal of the responsibility for looking after them will fall on women 's shoulders . |
| 21 | For users not expert in statistics , a great deal of the output will be meaningless or open to misunderstanding . |
| 22 | Ahi sā , in its positive form , reflects a great deal of the teaching of the New Testament on love and it is not really surprising that Jesus should be referred to as one who manifested ahi sā in its perfect form . |
| 23 | ‘ You will add great distinction to the office in ways to which I could not aspire ; but I fear you will find a great deal of the work here work which does not really interest you . ’ |
| 24 | In a research project I carried out into academic publishing a great deal of the work required me to interview very experienced and knowledgeable publishers and to ask questions which , inevitably , touched on financial matters . |
| 25 | So the , the groups are very important though , because the groups do a great deal of the work for Amnesty , cos Amnesty 's different from many organisations erm in that er , what the groups do , particularly the letter writing erm , helps to make the organisation work , it 's not just a matter of raising money , we do things to , to fund raise or two , er have a proper publicity erm , the le the letters we write for prisoners and helps Amnesty to do it 's work and not many other organisations operate like that . |
| 26 | Tower Hamlets found that they could not decentralize Social Services , for example , because of the statutory requirement to have a Social Services Committee , but everything else they 've erm within the overall Council policy , which is decided by all the Councillors , they 've decentralized a great deal of the powers down to these local groups of Councillors , and where the Labour control the areas they control these local Councils , and where the Liberal Democrats control them they control them , and I think it 's working very well . |
| 27 | Travelling through England it is at once apparent that a great deal of the settlement in the landscape is today not in the form of villages , nor was it for much of the past . |
| 28 | The suggestion that caused the fuss was a great deal of the DNA in mammalian cells , which does n't it first glance look particularly transposable , might have a similarly selfish character . |
| 29 | And I , instead of following and recording , tying up , smoothing , lubricating , find myself providing a great deal of the steam and piston work . |
| 30 | Unlike the honey bees , a great deal of the vervet 's signalling system is learned . |