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

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1 They are getting the worst deal of any group of British workers involved in a mass redundancy .
2 The B one development take-up is er I think a result of the the market in terms of B one is an attractive position for speculators , a great deal of that land has not yet been developed .
3 We could have what you English call ‘ fun ’ … and I do not think there has been a great deal of that commodity in your life so far .
4 It is certain that a great deal of such duplication has gone on , all over the chromosomes , and throughout geological time .
5 They saw a great deal of each other , but , because Diana was so much younger and usually just one of a party , no one who saw them together ever suspected she was a girlfriend .
6 ‘ Of course we saw a great deal of each other . ’
7 But then , of course , in the last year we 've seen a great deal of each other .
8 Sorry , my my my other point is about about Ryedale , and and and its its and its its unde its relationship to Southern Ryedale , and erm Mr Smith said that erm as far as Ryedale Council are concerned they ca n't identify any more land within Southern Ryedale , well of course they would say that because was there position at the Southern Ryedale plan , but the fact of the matter is that there was a great dispute at the York greenbelt Southern Ryedale plan enquiry , revol resolving around the issue of what were the bits of the greenbelt which made up the historic character and thereby what were you left with that potentially could be developed , albeit it might be reserved as white land in the first place , but could potentially be developed , and a great deal of this land on the disputed side lay in Southern Ryedale , that in that in fact there was a view around the table not only sh not only shared by by the developers side , but erm that large parts of Osbaldwick and Huntingdon did n't fall within the definition of greenbelt as as set out by by the County Council in their N Y Two Two document , now that matter clearly has got to be something left to the Inspector and the Greenbelt Inquiry , but I think it 's fair to point out that there is actually a difference of view , so it 's not an absolute position , that you ca n't identify more land within within Southern Ryedale , and indeed , erm , not that I want to raise the Local Government Commission 's head again , but of course the Local Government Commission is proposing that York be a unitary authority expanded , and once Yor , if York does become a unitary authority expanded then some of these areas will fall within their area , and they may have a different view than er the Ryedale current Ryedale district council does , and therefore I think it is a little unsafe to take just at pure se pure face value , that there is no more land within Southern Ryedale that could be developed .
9 There is a great deal of this kind of description in the Song of Roland , and a great deal more : action , speech and sentiment .
10 It would be surprising to find a great deal of this type of activity in any organization , although it would be sad to see none .
11 Professor James Torrance , I know , sees this as a weakness in Calvinism , and it can not be denied that , despite the Reformation , a great deal of this legalism passed over into Protestantism .
12 Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before .
13 Psychology makes a great deal of this malleability of behaviour and has developed a technology designed to help people overcome behavioural difficulties and overcome habit problems .
14 And as we wait and watch the findings are very much those of Paul in Bristol , that a great deal of these patients get better , and only very few fall into problems .
15 The fanfare of catwalk shows , exhibitions , and the production of designs that may never be worn , take up a great deal of most designers ' time and money .
16 I suppose we saw a good deal of each other , over the ensuing months .
17 Today he has shed a good deal of that ideology — his speech yesterday was social democratic through and through — but he remains devoid of the work experience relevant to his next task which is to convince the country that he , and Labour , are qualified to form the next government .
18 Now , getting back to the comment the woman made earlier about men being misogynist within their own world I 'm quite convinced that a good deal of those men would go home to their wives and family and be very loving to their , to their wives and family , be respectful of their neighbours but as soon as they got in the all male environment , and this woman was there to be used , she was their property for the time that they paid their money to get through the door , they could be as misogynist , offensive and horrid as they wanted to be !
19 True , he owned a good deal of this land and could stop any building on his own acres .
20 A good deal of this position can be attributed to discrimination on the part of employers .
21 A good deal of this book is about the inequality that exists in British society .
22 Yet a good deal of this diversification probably happened in the last 70 million years , during the Tertiary .
23 Now in this respect , of course , twenty-five years is rather a short time in the life of a university , and a good deal of this time has been spent in building up a research base , and now , as you mentioned in your erm remarks a few moments ago , Andrew , we have an enviable research record in a very wide range of disciplines .
24 A good deal of this security is located in the routines making up practical consciousness — predictability reduces anxiety .
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