Example sentences of "deal of the [noun] [be] " in BNC.

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1 A good deal of the work is done in ad hoc teams as required by an individual patient 's diagnosis and condition .
2 Though you may not want the negative situation to arise and though you may do your best to avoid it , once you know what the worst possible outcome would be and that you could cope with it , a great deal of the anxiety is removed .
3 A great deal of the success is in the way in which the contract has been handled , and all staff are to be congratulated on a thoroughly professional job in trying and often fraught conditions .
4 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 .
5 Gas turbine engines , putting out more than twice the power of the average civilian aircraft , allow a cruising speed of 240 kt — nearly 300 mph — and a great deal of the cruise is spent at 250 ft .
6 A good deal of the letter was fantasy on the part of its sixteen-year-old author and it ended with a great flourish of romantic rhetoric .
7 A great deal of the plant is now under computerised control although there is still a long way to go before it is as automated as other maltings in the group .
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