Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adj] deal [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had earned a great deal of money from her swimming , which she then used to set up the Mercedes Gleitze Homes for Destitute Men and Women . |
| 2 | However , its involvement in the conflict in Nicaragua , acting as the main host country to the Contras , has attracted a good deal of US aid and military personnel and has led to the increasing militarization of society . |
| 3 | It is an excellent establishment and has attracted a good deal of support and resources from the private sector . |
| 4 | Balance chairs have also attracted a good deal of interest . |
| 5 | The increasing though still very minimal panicipation of women in managerial , technical and higher professional occupations within the corporation has already attracted a good deal of attention , but there is little research specifically on the phenomenon of the female salariat in TNCs in the Third World ( see Garnsey and Paukert , 1987 , pp.57–67 ) . |
| 6 | Sir Steven Brown , the President of the High Court family division said the case involving the children had attracted a great deal of publicity . |
| 7 | These classes are widely known by the label ‘ comprador ’ though this term has attracted a great deal of criticism . |
| 8 | Free range chicken production has recently attracted a great deal of interest from our friends in Brussels and for months now a battle royal has been going on to tie up the system of rearing birds to a ‘ given ’ free range name . |
| 9 | Over the last two decades the study of code switching has attracted a great deal of interest from researchers working in different areas of linguistics . |
| 10 | Nicholson , at this point , was in the news through the acclaim being bestowed upon him for Easy Rider , and his first taste of stardom was received with some apprehension ; his on-screen connections with marijuana and LSD also attracted a great deal of media coverage ; serious press interviews , with him personally as the focus and centre of attention , were also unfamiliar territory into which he ventured nervously , almost unsure of what he was going to say and how he was going to express his feelings and opinions ; he had plenty , and serious ones at that . |
| 11 | The general practice fundholding scheme , which was introduced as part of the package of organisational reforms to the NHS in April 1991 , has attracted a great deal of comment . |
| 12 | Since it first appeared , Althusser 's work has attracted a great deal of attention , and his opponents have focussed in particular on his holist stance . |
| 13 | Her importance as a future Queen Consort naturally attracted a great deal of attention in 1980 and through to that summer of 1981 . |
| 14 | This technique was originated by the Gestalt school , and since their early work experimental psychologists have amassed a great deal of information about which parameters influence the occurrence of apparent motion . |
| 15 | The Attorney General had , under instructions , done a good deal of work on the issue . |
| 16 | Langer has done a good deal of research into the evaluation of this approach to schema activation , and she is convinced that is helps poor readers and good readers alike to learn more from difficult textbooks . |
| 17 | Since those days she has done a great deal of work with Steven Berkoff — particularly in his play for two people , Decadence which she has played in London , Los Angeles and Dublin . |
| 18 | ( All the PTEs have done a great deal of work on the integration and simplification of fare-structures and the provision of interchangeable tickets . ) |
| 19 | not because he was Mansfield , but because he was a man of their own party and had done a great deal of work in connection with municipal , industrial and trade union affairs generally … |
| 20 | Similarly , the Transport 2000 group , which has done a great deal of work on this matter , has discovered beyond doubt that the interests of consumers in England and Wales have not been protected by privatisation . |
| 21 | As early as 1707 Hugh , first Earl of Cholmondeley [ q.v. ] , was advised by a surveyor in London that the Smiths did a ‘ great deal of busness in the Contry and they have done a great deal of work thearabout & in Warwick you may easy hear of them ’ ; and when in the 1730s Sarah , Duchess of Marlborough [ q.v. ] , was building a house as far away as Wimbledon , Surrey , she stipulated that ‘ Mr. Smith of Warwickshire the Builder may be employed to make Contracts and to Measure the Work and to doe every thing in his Way that is necessary to Compleat the Work as far as the Distance he is at will give him leave to do . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Our intention was always to purchase a CT scanner in our business plan this year and we have done a great deal of work , ’ he said . |
| 23 | On the contrary , it draws attention to the dangers of introducing western technology outside , and even in the west it 's a good illustration this of the extent to which or work in countries overseas has relevance for Britain , because we have done a great deal of work on the implications for the unemployment problem of having technology which requires too much capital , which has a very ratio of capital to labour . |
| 24 | After a career in the British army , during which time he had done a great deal of fieldwork and excavation , and had amassed a collection of artefacts from all over the world , he spent the rest of his life studying and excavating archaeological sites on his estate . |
| 25 | ‘ In the past 50 years we 've done a great deal of abolition . |
| 26 | I would like to state that CAMRA has done a great deal for beer drinkers throughout the country . |
| 27 | This union has done a great deal for equality . |
| 28 | She has recently done a six-figure deal with Carol Smith for world volume rights in three books by ‘ bestselling novelist and TV personality ’ Denise Robertson , the first of which will be published in September 1994 . |
| 29 | My Lords , er , er , er no doubt that all of your Lordships have throughout the last hour and forty minutes felt a great deal of sympathy with the Noble Earl Lord |
| 30 | I 've written a good deal about traps . |