Example sentences of "[adj] deal [prep] [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great deal of publicity has been given to CFCs , not just because they are destroying the stratospheric ozone layer but because many are extremely powerful heat trappers as well . |
| 2 | A great deal of evidence has been given by all the associations concerned , and the Select Committee report was published in January 1989 . |
| 3 | A great deal of progress has been made on equal rights . |
| 4 | A great deal of work has been done in attempts to get at the ‘ true ’ total of crimes committed . |
| 5 | A great deal of work has been done in academic and business schools on the track record of success of those who have diversified totally outside their own fields of experience . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , a great deal of work has been done . |
| 7 | Over the last two decades a great deal of work has been published by historians on the subject of popular culture . |
| 8 | Although a great deal of work has been done in the historical demography of the developed world relatively little research has been carried out in relation to the corresponding ( i.e. pre-demographic transition ) period in the Third World . |
| 9 | Yes , erm , a great deal of work has been done in the United States on this trend , in particular by juvenile fire setters as they refer to them . |
| 10 | In the course of the exercise a great deal of knowledge had been gained about EPH activities and associated problems , and various other changes were made as a result of the investigation . |
| 11 | A great deal of nonsense has been spoken and written in recent years concerning his lordship and the prominent role he came to play in great affairs , and some utterly ignorant reports have had it that he was motivated by egotism or else arrogance . |
| 12 | A great deal of expertise has been built up over the years in the shipment of petrochemical cargoes all over the world , often in custom-built vessels . |
| 13 | Indeed he agreed that a great deal of hypocrisy had been involved in what Macaulay had called one of the ‘ fits of morality ’ to which the British nation was periodically subject . |
| 14 | A great deal of change has been seen in the power drill market over recent years : cordless models have become more popular , and there has also been a gradual move towards variable-speed percussion models , even by the occasional home improver . |
| 15 | All I do know is that we 're very conscious a great deal of money 's been spent by the Council and by the Trust to try and make the place outside more inviting those tubs been put there er they been planted etc there 's a lot of litter there we 've put litter bins there there 's taxi rank there there 's lot 's of things been put there I think the problem is it is n't the people who do that I mean it 's the people who actually do the litter and it 's quite clear that we do go out we do tidy up but it happens and it 's a case of balance of what we can do and what you ca n't do but we do work at it I can assure you . |
| 16 | A great deal of money has been spent conserving a block of less-than-distinguished Victorian slums and warehouses . |
| 17 | Not only is it good value for money , it 's clear that a great deal of thought has been given to the virus problem and how to cure it . |
| 18 | In recent years , a great deal of emphasis has been placed on technological progress as a cause of structural unemployment . |
| 19 | A great deal of ink has been spilled over the nature of indirect duties , to which I will return in the next section . |
| 20 | It is common for such evidence to appear , but all too often only after a great deal of harm has been done . |
| 21 | A great deal of rubbish has been talked about the seasoning of timber by craftsmen and by romantic but ignorant amateurs . |
| 22 | A great deal of care has been taken to ensure a fair and accurate description of each hotel and we suggest you consider this together with prices charged when choosing a holiday . |
| 23 | A great deal of confidence has been built up in this system and NASA regularly publish reports of incidents notified to them , though of course without any reference to the individuals involved . |
| 24 | The drawing suggests how a great deal of attention has been paid to one area but other areas have been ignored . |
| 25 | A great deal of effort has been put into making sure that what the examiner requests has been clearly and unambiguously stated . |
| 26 | It looks like that not really a great deal of account has been taken of the extra costs that are incurred by visually handicapped people in courses of study , such as paying for er expensive , extremely expensive , computing equipment which is n't a luxury , it 's a necessity quite often for many people , especially doing science courses . |
| 27 | A great deal of research has been carried out with respect to the effects of ageing on physical and mental capacities . |
| 28 | A great deal of research has been undertaken into the understanding of TSPs and our intention here is simply to illustrate an alternative branching scheme using the special structure of the problem . |
| 29 | We are already attracting sponsorship for the Famous Compere 's Policedog in January 1992 and a great deal of interest has been shown in the celebrations to mark the end of Amnesty 's thirtieth year . |
| 30 | Considering the time it takes initially to carry out an analysis , it is quite surprising that a great deal of interest has been aroused . |