Example sentences of "good deal of [noun sg] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The forensic laboratory has a good deal of work to do on his clothes , and the contents of his pockets . |
| 2 | In a number of countries including France and Italy , it is also apparent that a good deal of prominence attaches to the central union federations . |
| 3 | In England and Wales , as elsewhere , there has of late been a good deal of concern expressed about improving the quality of teaching in schools . |
| 4 | And I will also give you a good deal of freedom to look at the sea . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It is easy to make the judgement that there is a good deal of fatalism held by unskilled workers … [ they ] believe they ‘ do n't have the knowledge ’ to think about the organization of their work . |
| 6 | There is a good deal of industry associated with the city , but for the most part it is not heavy industry . |
| 7 | There was a good deal of shrubbery trailed up the sides and it would have been difficult to see us by a casual glance along the terrace . |
| 8 | On the whole , radio stations are friendlier places than TV stations and have a good deal of time to fill with non-controversial general interest material . |
| 9 | The librarian continues to base selection and stock revision programmes on catalogue records which are no longer accurate , and wastes a good deal of time searching for books which are no longer in circulation . |
| 10 | In most day units , whatever they are called , attenders normally spend a good deal of time chatting to other attenders or sitting about watching the world go by , doing nothing very much . |
| 11 | ‘ At my age you do n't need much sleep by night , and I spend a good deal of time sitting by the bedroom window , smoking my pipe and watching the sea … |
| 12 | Even though , as readers of the fabliaux , we may spend a good deal of time smiling at the preposterous ingenuity of gross deceptions and misdeeds — in other words things that are generically wrongs in terms of conventional Christian morality — we have already seen that substantial elements of positive Christian spirituality and conventional morality are widely represented amongst the French fabliaux . |