Example sentences of "[noun] a [adj] deal [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In later centuries the rate of clearance may have slowed , and in the 17th and 18th centuries a great deal of replanting was carried out in the formation of the large parklands . |
| 2 | The whole operation caused Mrs Singh a great deal of anxiety . |
| 3 | I looked at this detail with some interest , thinking it would probably tell a psychologist a great deal about Victor Frankenstein 's thought processes during this period of his engagement . |
| 4 | At present , the region acts as a clearing house and Lothian region gives the college a great deal of autonomy . |
| 5 | There have been suggestions that James owed Gowrie a great deal of money , and contrived the incident to rid himself of the debt ; or that he had homosexual designs on the young man , and had murderously silenced him when rejected . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Scientific research and teaching were important at many German universities , although the system was rigidly structured and gave the professor a great deal of power . |
| 8 | The planners had in fact already taken out of the hands of the industry a good deal of the coordinating responsibility for making up the plant backlog , recognising electricity supply as a crucial sector in their overall economic planning and taking steps to intervene directly where they were dissatisfied with the progress made by the Pre-vesting electricity undertakings . |
| 9 | Indeed , any lexical analysis of spontaneous speech will bring to light a great deal of it — words and phrases which approximate , round off , exaggerate , generalize , qualify , and maintain vagueness or ambiguity — in a word , there will be many hedges . |
| 10 | In recent months a good deal of concern has been expressed about students no longer having access to benefits over the summer vacation . |
| 11 | He felt , with some justification , that he had received from Transvaal a raw deal for his loyalty , and he moved to Bloemfontein . |
| 12 | It is in this sense that Nizan 's revolutionary literature demands a great deal from the reader . |
| 13 | The areas involved are very large and it will take the oil companies a great deal of time and money to cover them . |
| 14 | Nettie B. was absent from work a great deal in the 1920s , " owing to sickness of mother " . |
| 15 | I notice from the old schedules that you programmed Vaughan Williams 's Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis a good deal at that time . |
| 16 | Of course , if the discourse analyst experiences a great deal of data like this , he will feel more confident in his description and interpretation . |
| 17 | In the course of the exercise a great deal of knowledge had been gained about EPH activities and associated problems , and various other changes were made as a result of the investigation . |
| 18 | Money matters a great deal to the elderly . |
| 19 | Robert Burrows , now promoted to the rank of major , was ill the Red Shield , acting as a welfare officer with the troops , and away from home a good deal of the time . |
| 20 | Knighton is ready to offer the Manchester United boss a new deal on the 50.6 per cent shareholding which he sought to buy from Edwards for £10m , and which is now the subject of a damaging legal wrangle in the High Court . |
| 21 | Over the last two decades a great deal of work has been published by historians on the subject of popular culture . |
| 22 | ‘ He 'll be a real help to the batsmen , and it will do his confidence a great deal of good . |
| 23 | It would take a teacher a great deal of time to prepare such graphs manually but more importantly the software allows pupils to manipulate it to discover aspects of pond life for themselves . |
| 24 | Maybe we ca n't stop that , ’ he hissed , ‘ but we 'd better make maternity a better deal for the others , or we 're going to be overrun . ’ |
| 25 | He has shown Matthew a great deal of kindness , and you have to admit that , were it not for my father 's offer of friendship , Matthew would be a very lonely soul . |
| 26 | Complaining in print about one restaurant 's service charge policy — giving both the restaurant and proprietor 's name — could cost that establishment a great deal of money in bad publicity . |
| 27 | In earlier years a great deal of lip service had been paid in Scandinavia to cooperative efforts , up to and including economic cooperation ; but the several discussions had been infrequent and without any tangible results . |
| 28 | Neville Whittaker , the ebullient chief executive of the North East Civic Trust , says the region has so many bad buildings a great deal of it would not be left standing if he could invoke the Heseltine solution . |
| 29 | Distinguishing between public and private places caused the courts a great deal of difficulty . |
| 30 | Come back in a fortnight and we 'll check its progress , but you 'll find it takes a few weeks to really heal properly because we use that toe a great deal for balance . ’ |