Example sentences of "good deal [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coetzee knows a good deal about an attempt to kill the chief of the ANC 's military wing and leader of the South African Communist Party , Chris Hani , with a car bomb . |
| 2 | Over the years , Page has established himself as a medieval raconteur , delighting his audience with tales of , say , thirteenth-century Paris ; but anecdotes aside , he has also been refining the presentation and programming so that , almost without realising it , his audiences learn a good deal about the often totally unfamiliar music being performed . |
| 3 | But from a study of detailed thin sections through the colonies we can deduce a good deal about the growth ( astogeny ) of colonies of bryozoans long since extinct . |
| 4 | Another important case , which reveals a good deal about the workings of the legislation , is R v Hampshire County Council ex parte J . |
| 5 | It tells us a good deal about the relative values of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that where the Victorians modelled their stations on cathedrals and palaces , Modern Man models his on shopping centres and office blocks . |
| 6 | Many hundreds of casts of these human fossils have since been made , and from them we can learn a good deal about the last appalling hours in the life of Pompeii . |
| 7 | The difference between the comfort of the villa owner 's quarters and the room sin which his slaves worked and lived , tells us a good deal about the low standards slaves had to accept for themselves . |
| 8 | The peasant was witnessing members of an informal group of earth scientists known as the International Crustal Research Drilling Group ( ICRDG ) during the early stages of an intriguing and seemingly paradoxical research venture : probing into a mountain range to learn a good deal about the ocean floor . |
| 9 | Yet we actually know a good deal about the characteristics of good care … |
| 10 | Further , the data can be used to reveal a good deal about the composition of households — who lived with whom — but far less about the character and quality of relationships which people had with each other ( Laslett , 1972a , p. 1 ; Anderson , 1980 , pp. 36–7 ) . |
| 11 | She troubles a good deal about the three hours that she 's lost . |
| 12 | Tess thought a good deal about the baptism , however , and wondered if it might mean that Sorrow could be buried in the churchyard , with a church service . |
| 13 | On the journey , between lapses into contented silence , we spoke a good deal about The Criterion , the prospects of which were now less rosy . |
| 14 | I learned a good deal about the role of food and drink as a socio-economic indicator . |
| 15 | How you discuss AIDS will depend a good deal on the way you operate in your family . |
| 16 | This was a chance not only to see some sport , but to make some extra money , and many a good profit made on a good deal on the Friday was lost on a poor horse on the Saturday . |
| 17 | Like all prisoners of circumstance , you will probably reflect a good deal on the whole subject of ‘ time ’ and of its strange habits of hanging , dragging , or running out too quickly , but if you decide to use and dominate it , instead of allowing it to dominate you , you will inevitably come to the conclusion that it is only wasted if it is thrown away , never when it is offered freely , as a gift of love . |
| 18 | It depends a good deal on the bulk and ‘ fillability ’ of the food , of course . |
| 19 | She spent a good deal on the house ; well , it was his house , she kept it up for him , even afterwards . |
| 20 | The answer depends a good deal on the value judgements of the government in power . |
| 21 | I got a very good deal on the buoyancy aid . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , he said : ‘ It is a good deal for the with-profits fund . ’ |
| 23 | Maybe it was a good deal for the Conservative party , but it was a very bad deal for this country . |
| 24 | When running a football club one had to take into account the overall strength of the squad , and , to quote Norman Hunter ‘ Leeds is overloaded with midfield players and this is a good deal for the club ’ . |
| 25 | The art of making a good deal as an agent is to keep the promoter 's costs down , while allowing him or her a sufficient budget to make sure the event is successful . |
| 26 | Living with the Keraing and his wife was a very public affair ; and , although they barked a good deal at the constant throng which invaded their household while we were there , they were traditionally in no position to deny them entrance , and each resident of Bira got his chance lengthily to observe our every blink and mannerism . |
| 27 | Nigerian bank does good deal with the poor |
| 28 | Nevertheless , by the time of the Queen 's jubilee that summer there was some sense that a good deal of the worst might be over . |
| 29 | Commitments to matching finance are seldom adequately analyzed , and although the recipient governments may carry a good deal of the responsibility for this , donors are also at fault in assuming that the counter-part funds for their projects will have priority . |
| 30 | Lamb had taken over the Northamptonshire leadership the previous season and had shown himself enthusiastic if inexperienced , but had then missed a good deal of the season through injury . |