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

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31 Mecir , whose world ranking has dropped to 26 chiefly as a result of back injuries , ought to add a good deal of craft to the Silk Cut Championships at Wembley next month .
32 ‘ That turn of phrase you have … would seem to indicate a good deal of education . ’
33 Nadia has already seen a good deal of Scotland , and also went on a school trip to France and Belgium when pupils of St Mary 's accompanied members of a pensioners ' lunch club to find out about the European Community and the European Parliament .
34 If a good deal of conduct disorder could be prevented or successfully treated in childhood , it would seem that such intervention should have considerable impact on the prevalence of personality disorder and sociopathic behaviour among adults .
35 Midianite : the inter-change of terms sound confused , but from late patriarchal times on , there was in fact a good deal of overlap in the use of the terms " Midianite " , " Ishmaelite " , " Medanite " , " Moabite " .
36 However , since much published work combines various approaches , there will be a good deal of overlap between different parts of the discussion and it will be necessary throughout to refer to various theoretical and methodological issues which have received a good deal of attention in recent years .
37 It thus differs from business education whose concern is more broadly based in terms of areas of knowledge and the techniques relevant to business operations , though , of course , there is a good deal of overlap between the two subject areas .
38 Since the Matthew poems are mysterious , a good deal of speculation has arisen , mainly biographical .
39 The introduction of fundholding in April 1991 was accompanied by a good deal of speculation about its impact on general practice .
40 Less is known however about the impact of second homes on the local environment , and although there has been a good deal of speculation about their impacts , as shown in Table 7.5 , there are few hard or agreed empirical data to back this up .
41 On some issues there was a good deal of discussion , but if by ‘ conviction government ’ it is meant that certain slogans were going to be elevated and written in tablets of stone and used as the put-down at the end of every argument , then , of course , that is indeed what happened .
42 There was a good deal of discussion in December 1902 , as to who was responsible for the cost of road widening , the B.E.T .
43 A good deal of discussion towards the end of the meeting turned around the University 's interest in setting up an alumni society .
44 There has been a good deal of discussion recently of time-perspectives in industrial and economic policy , with both industry and the City being accused of ‘ short-termism ’ , sometimes in comparison with the Germans or Japanese .
45 To someone accustomed by the existing advanced accounting courses , with no involvement in the National Certificate , the proposals seemed somewhat revolutionary and the document generated a good deal of discussion over the following few weeks on the relative merits of the B1 and B2 models etc .
46 A good deal of discussion focussed , in the early meetings , on whether and how to reduce the ‘ all-pervading ’ influence of the subject boards , and at its second meeting discussed an officers ' draft paper which sought to undermine the boards and considered the pros and cons of the CNAA relating primarily to institutions as a whole .
47 This arrangement was made more systematic in 1688 ; and after 1719 there was a good deal of discussion of the status and powers of secretaries of this kind .
48 There could have been no better man for the job and Graveney , whose equable temperament has survived a good deal of adversity in recent years , managed to keep everyone content during some trying early days .
49 Wood substance has a specific gravity around 1.4 but freshly felled timber floats ( unless it is a very dense species ) because , even in the unseasoned wood , there is a good deal of air .
50 There was a good deal of air ahead of him — he could feel it moving and there was a considerable space above his head .
51 The first is the saga of the protagonist 's marriage annulment , involving several hearings , frequent trips to Rome , and a good deal of frustration .
52 Enabling you to allocate different joystick commands to the three coloured pedals , this nifty little piece of hardware will certainly add a good deal of realism to any driving games you may have in your collection ( except Hard Drivin' , of course , as even a steering wheel and gear shift could n't fuel-inject any realism into that ! ) .
53 This usually consists of worship and praise and comprises the singing of a number of songs , with a good deal of repetition in which one song succeeds another without a break .
54 A good deal of wall space was taken up with framed photographs , each one labelled with a date and the location .
55 After a good deal of success in his 13 years of moto cross , Zeelenberg would have gone with them but for the advice of manager Jan Huberts , who still manages Zeelenberg and the Sharp Samson team .
56 It must be said that this has apparently been achieved with a good deal of success in many societies in many different periods .
57 It has achieved a good deal of success in this , enabling some compensation to be made for the diminishing pool of potential recruits on the farms .
58 Although a good deal of success has been achieved with regard to mapping vegetation ( Hathout , 1980 ) , there are still problems with resolution and cloud cover ( Allan , 1980 ) and although these are gradually being resolved by radar , the problem of more detailed and fine-grained interpretation will remain for the foreseeable future ( Deane , 1980 ) .
59 In those days he still played a good deal of tennis .
60 All it takes to give this work a decent hearing is five intelligent and compatible singers , a good deal of rehearsal time , sensitive discussion about the best way of tackling the considerable demands both of the words and the huge span of music , and some recording equipment .
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