Example sentences of "[adj] deal of [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great deal of its significance in influencing ‘ attitudinal changes ’ derives from the power of the State to legitimize and enshrine new perceptions of young people . |
| 2 | The well bubbled into a tributary of the Moy , but unfortunately it had been hemmed in by modern concrete and so had lost a great deal of its charm . |
| 3 | Organised by Lingotto Fiere , this exhibition has invested a great deal of its hopes in a rigorous vetting system which is intended to bring the level of buyer reassurance up to that , for example , of the Grosvenor House Fair . |
| 4 | Secondly , well-made compost preserves all its constituents in a stable form , whereas FYM is liable to lose a great deal of its value through leaching and evaporation . |
| 5 | Meanwhile another issue had arisen which absorbed a great deal of its energy , that of Asiatic , and particularly Chinese , seamen . |
| 6 | A great deal of her life was " given to the delegates " . |
| 7 | Their mother inevitably expends a great deal of her energy in providing them with milk and the task of carrying them as well is too much for her . |
| 8 | These are by no means unusual examples , and Tannen spends a great deal of her paper speculating on why we do it . |
| 9 | A gentle , flower-garlanded goddess , Lakshmi spent a great deal of her time in contemplating the universe and bestowed gifts of calm and wisdom upon those mortals who sought to emulate her through transcendental meditation . |
| 10 | He and April , Maggie 's mum , had done a great deal of their courting in the back seats of the stalls . |
| 11 | Pupils between the ages of 5 and 16 spend a great deal of their life within the school walls . |
| 12 | In this way , people such as the Trobrianders of the Pacific , made famous by Malinowshi , spend a great deal of their energy producing goods of no practical value , mainly elaborate pieces of jewellery , for no other purpose than to exchange them with neighbours , and thereby maintain peaceful social relations . |
| 13 | The CFI at Nelson , Jenny Frame ( the only lady aero club CFI I met during my trip , though the proportion of female instructors and pilots seems much higher in New Zealand than it is in the UK ) told me that although this state of affairs was unusual , a great deal of their flying did normally comprise scenic flights for tourists . |
| 14 | Here I must emphasize that , although social anthropologists in the field concentrate a great deal of their attention on day-to-day domestic relationships , it is not really the set of domestic relationships as such which is their ultimate focus of interest . |
| 15 | Inflation is regarded as a serious macroeconomic problem and governments ( and economists ) around the world spend a great deal of their time , energy and resources in devising and applying policies to combat it . |
| 16 | They both spent a great deal of their time and energy maintaining the primatial claims of Canterbury , and neither ever mentioned the papal privileges in support of their claim . |
| 17 | Englishmen who spent a great deal of their time on horseback around 200 hundred years ago liked to bathe and change before dining . |
| 18 | These creatures are the heavy armoured tanks of the insect world and they spend a great deal of their time on the ground , barging their way through the vegetable litter , scrabbling in the soil or gnawing into wood . |
| 19 | With the phenomenal explosion of information science in recent years , the vast increase in publishing costs and the reduction in government grants to educational establishments , librarians seem to spend a great deal of their time these days poring over computer print-outs on library utilization , in order to help them decide where to recommend cutbacks in library service ( e. g. shorter opening hours or reduced service from enquiry desks ) . |
| 20 | put in a great deal of their time erm going to work and that could be working for er a European or an American right , er some sort of help in the house , or in the garden or whatever , so you had the men doing the same sort of tasks the housework as it were for Europeans and Americans and the women looking after the , the economic development of that little |
| 21 | Like so many baby mammals , young elephants spend a great deal of their time playing . |
| 22 | For the answer is that they spend a very great deal of their time observing how and when and where kinship relationships are brought into play , and in trying to understand the discriminations which mark the boundary between kinship relationships and non-kinship relationships . |
| 23 | Thanks are due , in no small measure , to those on the list of arbitrators appointed by the Chairman , who spend a great deal of their time dealing with these disputes . |
| 24 | In practice , as Barrett and McMahon ( 1990 ) demonstrate from their learning-network of senior health service managers , this is what good managers spend a great deal of their time on . |
| 25 | Jill Ireland renewed her cuddling relationship with Williams and Donald Sinden , Donald Houston and Andrew Ray were among those who spent a great deal of their time wearing bathrobes and dressing gowns , hopping in and out of bed — for strictly medical reasons , of course . |
| 26 | We have been and are very well served in N V C O. Our President , Sir Kenneth , our vice-presidents , and in particular , the Chair , the Vice-Chairs , and Treasurer , give us a great deal of their time , and I do mean give , as they work for many hours on behalf of N C V O without payment . |
| 27 | It must be admitted that a great deal of what Judaeo-Christianity has to say about the ‘ goodness ’ of God is based upon claims about the way in which He involves himself in the historical process . |
| 28 | She did quite a lot of snorting , quite a lot of brittle laughter and a very great deal of what Henry took to be assumed inarticulacy . |
| 29 | A great deal of my audience enjoyed them immensely even though they 'd never heard them before . |
| 30 | A great deal of my collection , of the jewellery that is , was bought for Lady Firth . ’ |