Example sentences of "good deal of [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Benefits Agency spokesman said the discretionary nature of the Social Fund scheme permitted local officers a good deal of flexibility in cases where they could provide assistance . |
| 2 | I should have to get other opinions but I 'd guess they would fetch a good deal of money at auction . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At a post-crisis discussion between Mikoian and a State Department official , Mikoian was ‘ clearly influenced by commitments to Castro to make a strong case on Castro 's behalf ’ and tried to establish the idea of a protocol signed by all three countries ‘ [ attaching ] a good deal of significance to Cuba being one of the signatories ’ . |
| 5 | Teachers are expected to do a good deal of work at home . |
| 6 | My impression was that since it was to be held in London , Angela was doing the work , with a good deal of help from colleagues at Yeo Davis . |
| 7 | Husameddin devotes a good deal of space to Molla Fenari 's pilgrimage , making full use of the Arabic sources and adding a certain amount of material of his own . |
| 8 | Before going into the meeting the Irish team spoke of a good deal of hope for peace and the Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew said all options remained open . |
| 9 | Because of the enormous risks inherent in war the armed services have traditionally put a good deal of emphasis on training . |
| 10 | All the same there is a growing swell of support for electoral reform within the Labour movement and a good deal of support among MPs . |
| 11 | A document taken by the Garda Síochána ( the Irish police force ) from a leading republican , Sean Garland , in May 1966 , and later published as an appendix to the Scarman Report , contained a good deal of evidence of plans for intensive military training , but it also outlined some of the new political initiatives being taken by the movement . |
| 12 | The inter-war years saw a good deal of activity in North Shields by the local branch of the National Unemployed Workers Movement ( NUWM ; see CDP , 1978 ) , whose main base of support was on the Meadowell . |
| 13 | ‘ I have a good deal of experience in staff relations , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Roller blinds offer a good deal of scope through colour and fabric combinations , from floral patterns to bold geometric prints . |
| 15 | A subject which , I thought drily , afforded a good deal of scope for liars . |
| 16 | While there is a good deal of division of opinion both about these attempts to characterise the present situation and about what further conclusions theology should draw from it , there lies here a nexus of issues to which theologians have had to turn their attention , especially since the Second World War . |
| 17 | Self and Ernest Long , the secretary , devoted a good deal of thought to methods of budgetary control which would make decentralisation possible , but the headquarters engineers , still deeply distrustful of anything from Self , had little conception of the financial and management principles of decentralisation . |
| 18 | Erm , I 'm not in a position to add anything very much to the article for next year , I spent most of Friday afternoon with the Tech last week , erm , but there 's still obviously a good deal of uncertainty about programmes for next year , erm , what I think has been very positive is that we have now er , this year for the first time since the Tech 's formation , they 've started to discuss some of the issues about the programmes with a group of providers . |
| 19 | As XPS is useful for the study of surfaces it can give a good deal of information about species adsorbed on catalysts . |
| 20 | Now um I suppose in that context um one of the things that makes this perhaps rather difficult to understand is the way in which y'know kind of when you look at children playing , when you talk to children , they 'll often express a good deal of curiosity about sexuality um both to each-other and to adults . |
| 21 | There was a good deal of curiosity behind Mike 's admiration , but he managed to curtail it until they were in the car . |
| 22 | Even in the 1660s Charles II had been complaining in London that his correspondence with his sister , the Duchess of Orleans , was being regularly opened in the French post , while from about 1748 Louis XV himself began to take a good deal of interest in work of this kind . |
| 23 | North lent a good deal of encouragement to Thomas Dowling , ‘ the priest for the contras ’ , who was called in by Calero to say Mass in the camps in Honduras ; but Dowling found the contras drifting , rather than committed . |
| 24 | What they had in common was that they were all perceived by the development officers as requiring a good deal of care in order to be sustained at home , and as not having all those care needs filled by either informal or statutory carers . |
| 25 | This naming seems close to the boring and routine ‘ normal science ’ that Thomas Kuhn described in his Structure of Scientific Revolutions ( 1970 ) ; there is a good deal of routine in science , as in other things , but it is not always the most eminent who have done the interesting bits . |
| 26 | To an extent , the questionnaire approach can be sterile and impersonal , but questions are only included after a good deal of face to face discussion . |
| 27 | Strictly speaking the former ought to Read MEDIA RELEASE — important , perhaps , if you send a good deal of material to TV and radio . |
| 28 | Many people consume a good deal of sugar in drinks . |
| 29 | THERE is a good deal of embarrassment in Paris over l'affaire de la Musee Jacquemart-Andre . |
| 30 | Both the Lord Lieutenant and the Chief Secretary were politicians and had to spend a good deal of time in London attending Cabinet and Parliament ; therefore the Under-Secretary , who was a Civil Servant , was the effective head of British Administration in Ireland for most of every year . |