Example sentences of "[art] good deal [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 ) .
3 Another important case , which reveals a good deal about the workings of the legislation , is R v Hampshire County Council ex parte J .
4 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 .
5 Yet we actually know a good deal about the characteristics of good care …
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 On the journey , between lapses into contented silence , we spoke a good deal about The Criterion , the prospects of which were now less rosy .
8 I learned a good deal about the role of food and drink as a socio-economic indicator .
9 How you discuss AIDS will depend a good deal on the way you operate in your family .
10 She spent a good deal on the house ; well , it was his house , she kept it up for him , even afterwards .
11 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 .
12 The answer depends a good deal on the value judgements of the government in power .
13 It depends a good deal on the bulk and ‘ fillability ’ of the food , of course .
14 As a result the north-east corner of the island had become much more distinctly Protestant in population than the rest , though Protestant landlords owned property in a good deal of the rest of the island .
15 In conclusion it should be noted that power already exists to utilise delegated legislation to go a good deal of the way along the road proposed by the Royal Commission .
16 Most furniture today is fairly low which means that a good deal of the furniture in your room is going to be exactly the same height .
17 Before long a good deal of the poetry that women had written would seem decidedly out of date .
18 They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs .
19 So far , a good deal of the efforts of such organisations have been understandably directed to the ‘ young ’ old , for example , in providing recreational and cultural facilities for Asians or Afro-Caribbeans .
20 But if the extra-mural department has a budget of the order of £50,000 a year , and a salary bill of the order of £40,000 a year , adult education has got to go on whether so-called voluntary committees want it or not ; and since a good deal of the teaching is done by full-time tutors , even the subjects taught will inevitably be dictated to some extent by the department and not by the voluntary groups .
21 If you have succeeded in fully engaging the sympathies of your readers you will probably have produced for them a main character who is something more than a stereotype , who has about him or her a good deal of the complexity of real life .
22 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 .
23 As far as the provision of books , materials , tools and other educational facilities are concerned , a good deal of the cost of provision falls on families .
24 A good deal of the work is done in ad hoc teams as required by an individual patient 's diagnosis and condition .
25 The ten subject areas of the NAEP programme cover a good deal of the curriculum , but Greenbaum , et al ( 1977 ) argue that this was limiting .
26 They are also extremely vocal , calling and bellowing a good deal of the time .
27 Sceptics might feel that they betrayed a lack of informed thought on the issue of objectives ; and certainly a good deal of the time of the economic planners , the Treasury , the Ministry and the industry over the following decades was to be devoted to the search for more meaningful objectives and standards of performance to supplement these minimal statutory requirements .
28 Granted , he does have five- bedroom house in Bayswater ; he is married to one of the most powerful women in publishing ; but his children go to state schools , a good deal of the time he wears clothes from Marks & Spencer and he does not drive a car .
29 Indeed he seemed to have to keep rushing off to have a word with this person and that ; Helen found herself on her own a good deal of the time , glimpsing him across the room in spirited conversation .
30 Robert Burrows , now promoted to the rank of major , was ill the Red Shield , acting as a welfare officer with the troops , and away from home a good deal of the time .
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