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

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1 Being the being I am , though , and no other ( not yet anyway ) , I wanted full brothel privileges , the old male deal of dough and careless choice .
2 Alongside its other main protagonists , the amateur architects Dr Henry Aldrich of Christ Church and Dr George Clarke of All Souls [ qq.v. ] , and the professional Nicholas Hawksmoor [ q.v. ] , he was a prominent figure in this development ; and the statement of the antiquarian Thomas Hearne [ q.v. ] in 1720 , that he ‘ hath a hand in all the Buildings of Oxford , and gets a vast deal of Money that way ’ , was no exaggeration .
3 Every year a number of trailers are rolled over on our roads and trailer accidents account for a great deal of glider repairs .
4 Teachers also received a great deal of support and help from both popular organizations and from communities to ease their situation .
5 Their ‘ soft ’ attitude to the Poles lost the Nazis a great deal of support In the 1935 Volkstag elections .
6 The children and their families need a great deal of support during this time — support which it is not possible to provide from the Health Service .
7 Optimal scaffolding is that which promotes the highest level of functioning with the minimal level of support ; a child who is having difficulty in making herself understood may require a great deal of support ; a few minutes later that same child dealing with a different topic may become relatively fluent and require a much lower level of adult participation .
8 It is also clear that there was a great deal of support for the old church throughout the country , and particularly from the gentry elites of provincial England .
9 With the increase of tension between universal education and differential provision , the special qualities of the new English ( under the hegemony of English literature ) for securing the sense of a common culture while at the same time being suited to differential application across the range of educational sectors , caused the Board to look very kindly on the fledgling discipline and to give a great deal of support to its advancement in schools .
10 It has achieved a great deal of support from anecdotal evidence ( see Johnston , 1980 , for example ) , which clearly suggests that Senators and Representatives have been able to channel very substantial volumes of Federal money towards their home States , thereby promoting their political reputations , assisting them in the search for campaign funds , and enhancing their re-election prospects .
11 Opposition Members argue , with a great deal of support from industry and commerce , that such decision-making should be at a lower level .
12 To judge from that response , I think that my hon. Friend has a great deal of support in the House .
13 You indicated that er in a sense the strike became well organized in the sense it had a great deal of support erm both moral and material and presumably financial .
14 By way of illustration , he described the loneliness experienced by many recently separated couples , even when they have longed for the divorce , and despite a great deal of support from companions .
15 But Mr Stewart said his talks with Bruce Millan , the EC commissioner heading regional affairs , had shown a great deal of support for Merseyside .
16 There is a great deal of support in the EC for such a discriminatory tax , eventually rising to as much as $10 a barrel .
17 But it 's something that I think someone can only have a go at if they have a great deal of support and a chance to experiment in a way that still gives them the option erm not to change if they feel that they ca n't handle it any other way erm so I think there are a lot of difficulties associated with this kind of problem .
18 Like their aquatic counterparts they have to take in a great deal of substance to supply their energy needs .
19 Judicial officials were given more guidance as to punishment than had been available previously , but a great deal of discretion remained .
20 My hon. Friend the Minister knows full well that , under the rating system , local authorities had a great deal of discretion about whether to charge on empty properties .
21 In practice a great deal of discretion is exercised by the Revenue with regard to this section , but to avoid an unexpected tax liability in relation to the transfer by the husband of the former matrimonial home to the wife the husband is well advised to consider making his election within the two-year period .
22 Margaret Thatcher was one of the greatest supporters of a classless society , not just I 'm not just talking about the silver spoon in one 's mouth , it 's the sometimes the stainless steel spoons of the middle class that erm that is a lot of the trouble , and no-one took on the establishments of the professional bodies erm and who have been over the years had a great deal of privilege in this country more than Margaret Thatcher .
23 Although the courts do not refuse in principle to review the exercise of police discretionary powers , they do nevertheless exercise a great deal of caution and restraint to such a degree that it is difficult to see how in practice the principles of judicial review are capable of being used to challenge decisions to issue warrants where these are considered to be necessary for the prevention or detection of crime .
24 Finally I 'll just say this to him , I agree that we have a great deal of things to learn from the United States , not in the way he suggests but it is a fact that er over the economic cycle of O E C D between seventy nine and eighty nine er America the United States saw growth of twenty six percent which created eighteen and half million jobs in their free enterprise economy .
25 So if you were commenting on such a section as this , you would have a great deal of things to say on , just on the letter forms as they appear on the page .
26 And yet Charles Henstock had found a great deal of happiness in later life since his marriage to Dimity .
27 I know people read my books and try to find identifiable people but the truth is that five or six people , and a great deal of myself and a great deal of invention , go into minor characters .
28 Hopefully , this knowledge will save many householders a great deal of elbow grease !
29 Paradoxically , Gill and Jackson 's book appeared at a t–me when there was a great deal of activity in the black community directed towards finding black families for black children , thereby making it progressively unnecessary for transracial placements to continue .
30 There was a great deal of activity as they landed .
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