Example sentences of "a deal [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , IBM 's AIX division wants to go one better and negotiate a deal for Kingham , Oxfordshire-based Binary Star Ltd 's DeltaStar software ( UX No 409 ) , a development programming environment which can re-engineer RPG II-based code to run on any system that supports Micro Focus Plc Cobol or C — not just IBM AIX . |
| 2 | Halifax are pulling out all the stops to try to strengthen their squad and want a sponsor to help fund a deal for Aussie Test forward Bob Lindner . |
| 3 | Either he walked out of here with a deal for Simon Cormack , or he would need a police escort anyway . |
| 4 | Bernard Kelly , general manager BNFL Engineering and Gonzalo Diez , director of Madrid-based Initec 's nuclear division , clinch a deal for BNFL expertise to be ‘ exported ’ to Spain . |
| 5 | Now the Arabs have moved in , because you-know-who in Rome has done a deal for oil rights , including a fat kickback for you-know-who , naturally . |
| 6 | So we have fixed up a deal for readers with chartered surveyors Angmering Gorse and Partners . |
| 7 | Object Design and SunSoft already have a deal for Object Design to develop a Persistent Manager Engine for Sun 's object-oriented environment Project DOE . |
| 8 | Now Eugenie 's apparent doubts about who her father is will fuel arguments over child custody as lawyers work out a deal for Fergie 's separation from Prince Andrew . |
| 9 | Now that Unix System Labs has finally cut a deal for OSF 's Distributed Computing Environment , albeit through Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG ( UX No 384 ) , hopes are that X/Open may find light at the end of that particular tunnel too . |
| 10 | ‘ What a deal of nuisance we could all have saved ourselves , ’ remarked Carnelian 's voice . |
| 11 | But she had found a deal of happiness in her family . |
| 12 | There was a deal of euphoria after the first night , the success of the missions , a certain element of surprise , but I did say at that time that we 'd be foolish to lower our guard , because erm there was still a lot of work to do , and that is exactly what it 's turning out to be , and we 're going for his military installations , and he 's got a lot of them , and it 's a wearing down process . |
| 13 | Ten and six a week is a deal of money , indeed it is , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 14 | The mine , with the associated influx of workers , and the demand for materials , must have injected a deal of money into the local economy . |
| 15 | She had been adopted as a small child by the counsellor 's wife , now dead — so said my companion , adding that it was well known that she would marry Victor , and so come into a deal of money . |
| 16 | Another game requiring a deal of skill was ‘ Tip-E-Cat ’ . |
| 17 | credulous old burgher of Windsor in Mr Pickwick 's tale contributed to Master Humphrey 's Clock , pompous and slow-witted , ‘ one of those people who , being plunged into the Thames , would make no vain efforts to set it afire , but would straightway flop down to the bottom with a deal of gravity , and be highly respected in consequence by all good men ’ . |
| 18 | Aware that she was causing David a deal of agony just being in the same room as Luther , Beth turned to him now , saying with some tenderness , ‘ And you , David ? |
| 19 | On this occasion I felt that all was not well and , although we got round alright , I had a deal of unease about the method employed by the navigator . |
| 20 | Perhaps you used to go and pawn the husbands suits or a anything like that till the following Saturday or Friday and fetch them out you see , and that cos there was very for people in them days , I mean they did n't get a deal of help from anywhere . |
| 21 | If her relationship with Tyler had brought her a deal of heartache , it had also brought her so much more . |
| 22 | These should be run-of-the-mill problems to the experienced recruitment specialist , but they could cause you a deal of anxiety and frustration , as well as cost you a lost of wasted time and effort . |
| 23 | So is a deal of subtlety in the more reflective parts of the love duet and the monologue . |
| 24 | I do n't suppose these incentives made a deal of difference to the attendance as families were either ‘ church ’ or ‘ chapel ’ and never the twain shall meet . |
| 25 | For centuries the continual struggle of ordinary country folk to harvest an income to keep them and their families above starvation level meant that they were always prepared to swallow their pride and go , cap in hand , to the gentry for a few vital coppers The same philosophy spawned the hiring fairs ( which continued until the second half of the century ) when the ‘ spare ’ children of rural ( and sometimes urban ) families , not required for work at home , were sent to stand at appointed places where prospective employers could examine and interrogate them checking their limbs for strength and making sure they were properly subservient There was n't a deal of difference , fundamentally , between hiring fairs ( as immortalized by Thomas Hardy in Far From the Madding Crowd and the weekly cattle auctions held in market towns . |
| 26 | I mean yesterday was yesterday really was there was n't a deal of wind at all but bloody sandstorm |
| 27 | I pray you 've found a deal of contentment with your young man , ’ she murmured kindly . |
| 28 | The mix of keening voices , dreamy storylines and unusual , far-off sounds brings to mind The Band when they were on a roll , and David Hidalgo in particular sounds like he 's done his best ever work — conjuring up old ghosts and loser friends and working up a deal of sadness and unique moods from familiar instruments . |
| 29 | Over and over Mrs Browning emphasised what a deal of trouble the Ogilvys were being put to on her behalf , by allowing their maid to do what she was going to do , and Wilson knew it was true . |
| 30 | But you understand that someone went to a deal of trouble to sharpen it , well in advance , and so must have planned the murder . |