Example sentences of "good deal [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the public get a really good deal over here . |
| 2 | The final contractions are less painful and , indeed , pain varies a good deal between women and between births . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 've written a good deal about traps . |
| 5 | And there is a high proportion of people who know a good deal about what they are looking at and may even have seen it before . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Another important case , which reveals a good deal about the workings of the legislation , is R v Hampshire County Council ex parte J . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | These children had no formal ‘ grammatical ’ vocabulary ; but they understood , in a practical way , a good deal about their own language . |
| 11 | But Cromwell had cared a good deal about religion , thought Karelius . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | RICHARD ROLLE 'S conversion to the solitary life tells us a good deal about his spirituality . |
| 15 | Those of you who are involved in deciding whether to apply for a place in further or higher education will already know a good deal about how to read prospectuses without believing everything they say : what they do not say is just as important . |
| 16 | Yet we actually know a good deal about the characteristics of good care … |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But trying to classify and understand them will show you a good deal about what is going on for that child . |
| 20 | He has investigated the subject with tenacity and in great depth , enabling us to understand a good deal about Russian and Teleut attitudes and activities . |
| 21 | They have learnt a good deal about nature from the aquarium and its inhabitants which was the general purpose of the aquarium . |
| 22 | And sir the other strand which we 've heard a good deal about has been the nature of the vegetative screen which occurs between D thirty nine and D forty on the one hand , and land to the north of it on the other . |
| 23 | Mr Wilson had also said a good deal about modernizing the machinery of government . |
| 24 | She troubles a good deal about the three hours that she 's lost . |
| 25 | Francis knew that ; in fact , he knew a good deal about Warner , though he avoided using the name , as if anxious to extend his own reticence to others . |
| 26 | Once she had seemed to know a good deal about him , but in her idle rancour of the last few weeks she had abused him for faults that seemed nothing to do with the truth of him . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We know very little about the world history of such ideas and their dialectical development , but we do know a good deal about how things have gone in the main literate civilizations over the past four thousand years . |
| 29 | On the journey , between lapses into contented silence , we spoke a good deal about The Criterion , the prospects of which were now less rosy . |
| 30 | I learned a good deal about the role of food and drink as a socio-economic indicator . |