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

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1 Clearly , the hearer is left with a great deal of responsibility in the interpretation process .
2 We 're all seeing a great deal of concern about dioxins in tampons and nappies , but did you know that incinerators and leaded petrol are also major contributors towards the levels in our environment ?
3 erm I think in fact it would be better to ask Mr Bailey to explain what his concerns were erm I 'd just like to say first although initially it revolves around problems of drinking , I 'm looking at other issues of East Oxford , in that recently there 's been a great deal of concern about glue sniffing in sections there , and there have been various letters from residents in the local newspapers , and I think there 's a general level of problem for people living in East Oxford , and it 's not just that the people there want the streets cleaned up or whatever , they want something constructive and helpful to be done for people .
4 Yel'tsin caused a great deal of concern in this connection by authorising a statement that Russia would not necessarily recognise existing boundaries with states that did not become members of the same political union ; this , at least implicitly , raised issues such as the status of the Crimea , transferred to the Ukraine by Khrushchev in 1954 as a political gesture .
5 I 'm afraid that when I dropped out of sight it created a great deal of concern in the village .
6 There appears to be bipartisan agreement that bogus asylum seekers should be dealt with , but there is a good deal of concern among voluntary societies and practitioners .
7 I object er er yes I would like to , I would like to er second the resolutions , this , there is er , there is er a certainly a great deal of concern within the community both those er who live within reach of , of , of , of car boot sale erm er sites in particular the ones that are regular and also the people who attend them and get ripped off , that we need to do something about er bringing er the er , er at to add , add to law into range of , of the people who of , of people who er er of of people who er sell er of people who sell those goods at these at these functions .
8 ‘ I must put on record my admiration for Pc Court who showed a great deal of bravery in bringing this action . ’
9 There is a great deal of competitiveness between the sections , sometimes not always friendly , with each thinking itself the most efficient and ‘ best ’ at policing .
10 There was a great deal of space on the new site , but the station was less conveniently situated to the city than the old one had been .
11 At Bethlehem , New Hampshire , the highest village east of the Rockies , the Boston and Maine created a delightful , half-timbered chalet-style building with a great deal of space for the horse-drawn coaches and carriages which conveyed excursionists from the station .
12 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 .
13 Separate software modules are required to handle direct and sequential retrieval , using a great deal of space in main storage ;
14 DIAL ( Disablement Information and Advice lines ) give a great deal of assistance to people who are disabled or who have a disabled relative , and Gingerbread , the charity concerned with one-parent families , does much educative and advisory work .
15 It welcomes my right hon. Friend the Chancellor 's brilliant Budget for its changes in the uniform business rate , which it says are of enormous help to business , a great deal of assistance to growing firms and just what businesses have requested .
16 She wore a great deal of make-up at all times , but that day , perhaps just as primitive man might have painted his face as a protection , she was garnished with particularly bright eye colours and lipstick , so that it was a little garish mask staring at the two policemen .
17 ‘ It would add a great deal of colour to my article , please Mr Parnham and give Ana the right kind of Press coverage . ’
18 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 ! ) .
19 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 .
20 The advantage of this is that there is now a great deal of choice at competitive prices .
21 ‘ I now have a great deal of choice about everything I do , which is the great blessing of old age .
22 His solution is the pragmatic one , common at the time , which involves establishing as large and vague a syllabus as possible and leaving a great deal of choice to students .
23 This is the cheaper option , but does not generally give you a great deal of choice in terms of design , features or finish .
24 You have a great deal of choice in the matter but there are also certain rules designed to protect you .
25 This relationship entails that speakers can exercise a great deal of choice in the way they encode their meanings ; for example , even if questions ( i.e. requests for information or for action ) occur in a text , there is no guarantee that they will be realized syntactically as interrogatives ; there is no simple isomorphic relationship between function and form .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 Large companies such as Coca Cola , Mars and many others pay a great deal of money for the privilege of using the logo .
29 The Stroganov , like the other two palaces , needs a great deal of money for restoration and maintenance .
30 You see , I 've been offered a great deal of money for information which might discredit Alan Dysart : anything scandalous from his past or present .
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