Example sentences of "[adj] deal of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the majority of elderly people requiring help are women , then a great deal of the responsibility for looking after them will fall on women 's shoulders . |
| 2 | A great deal of the blame must be laid at the feet of those who link regression with occult activities or treat it as some sort of parlour-trick to be practised for fun at parties . |
| 3 | It can not be stressed too strongly that a great deal of the blame for unsatisfactory deeds must lie in the failure of the Scottish legal profession to provide itself with a service for new styles . |
| 4 | It is expecting a great deal of the courts to ask them to review the operational judgment of a chief of police who indicates that he reasonably believes that his forces are insufficient to prevent serious public disorder or serious damage to property . |
| 5 | For users not expert in statistics , a great deal of the output will be meaningless or open to misunderstanding . |
| 6 | Cheese making demanded a great deal of the wife 's time , up to 5 or 6 hours per day . |
| 7 | On this occasion , in fact , a reply of sorts did occur to me as I stood up there on the ladder ; a reply to the effect that those of our profession , although we did not see a great deal of the country in the sense of touring the countryside and visiting picturesque sites , did actually see more of England than most , placed as we were in houses where the greatest ladies and gentlemen of the land gathered . |
| 8 | A host of small British firms sells small computers and this activity consumes a great deal of the country 's talent in electronics engineering . |
| 9 | Ahi sā , in its positive form , reflects a great deal of the teaching of the New Testament on love and it is not really surprising that Jesus should be referred to as one who manifested ahi sā in its perfect form . |
| 10 | The suggestion that caused the fuss was a great deal of the DNA in mammalian cells , which does n't it first glance look particularly transposable , might have a similarly selfish character . |
| 11 | Tower Hamlets found that they could not decentralize Social Services , for example , because of the statutory requirement to have a Social Services Committee , but everything else they 've erm within the overall Council policy , which is decided by all the Councillors , they 've decentralized a great deal of the powers down to these local groups of Councillors , and where the Labour control the areas they control these local Councils , and where the Liberal Democrats control them they control them , and I think it 's working very well . |
| 12 | Unlike the honey bees , a great deal of the vervet 's signalling system is learned . |
| 13 | Yet in Europe , as in the Pacific , a great deal of the art of amphibious warfare was learnt from these two operations . |
| 14 | A great deal of the discussion of such topic markers has been concerned with the sentence-internal organization of information as given ( or the topic ) vs. new ( or comment about the topic — see Gundel , 1977 for a review ) . |
| 15 | The new dietary proved to be an improvement although the youngest children were still wasting a great deal of the milk porridge , and alternation of a diet with tea and bread-and-butter was advised , similar to that given to children over the age of nine . |
| 16 | A great deal of the spending went on capital projects . |
| 17 | Though you may not want the negative situation to arise and though you may do your best to avoid it , once you know what the worst possible outcome would be and that you could cope with it , a great deal of the anxiety is removed . |
| 18 | Moreover , when depression did come , a great deal of the money invested overseas by the government and private speculators — for example in Germany — was lost as the economic problems spread worldwide ( CORE , pp. 9–12 ) . |
| 19 | It is certainly true that a great deal of the competition between nationalists and unionists concerned the distribution of resources . |
| 20 | Travelling through England it is at once apparent that a great deal of the settlement in the landscape is today not in the form of villages , nor was it for much of the past . |
| 21 | As we shall show in the later sections , a great deal of the activities of the fans can be understood as symbolic activities in the mode of metonymy . |
| 22 | First , he makes a great deal of the struggle with Satan in which Jesus is involved both in the temptation in the wilderness into which the Spirit thrusts him ( Mark 1:12 ) immediately after his baptism ; and also in the healings and exorcisms which follow during the ministry . |
| 23 | On it I shall argue that there is nothing that can not be understood , that there is nothing that can not be explained , and that everything is extraordinarily simple A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation . |
| 24 | As assistant principal Eva was responsible for a great deal of the curriculum . |
| 25 | The fact that it does may underlie a great deal of the difficulty experienced by many beginning readers . |
| 26 | A great deal of the success is in the way in which the contract has been handled , and all staff are to be congratulated on a thoroughly professional job in trying and often fraught conditions . |
| 27 | A great deal of the success for the show was due to its writers . |
| 28 | And I , instead of following and recording , tying up , smoothing , lubricating , find myself providing a great deal of the steam and piston work . |
| 29 | ‘ You will add great distinction to the office in ways to which I could not aspire ; but I fear you will find a great deal of the work here work which does not really interest you . ’ |
| 30 | In a research project I carried out into academic publishing a great deal of the work required me to interview very experienced and knowledgeable publishers and to ask questions which , inevitably , touched on financial matters . |