Example sentences of "good deal of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is far less of the mystification which can be attributed to the account of the troubles in Guerrillas : what we get is the mysterious politics of forest and township as observed by an outsider , by an African Asian who understands a good deal of what is going on . |
| 2 | Berowne confesses to his love for Rosaline , with a good deal of witty , self mockery . |
| 3 | We had a good deal of fun doing it . ’ |
| 4 | This early framework for sensory physiology — of a piece with the Hobbesian idea of ‘ the organ proper to each sense ’ — has undergone a good deal of refinement . |
| 5 | I continued walking the streets for three years , sometimes making a good deal of money , sometimes none , feasting one day and starving the next . |
| 6 | It has gone very sweetly ever since but that was a good deal of production time that was lost that cost me a lost more money than I had anticipated . |
| 7 | In the Preface to The Failure of Theory , he observes , ‘ To judge by a good deal of recent writing , the following resolutions would attract majority support at a conference of devotees of literary theory . ’ |
| 8 | Campbell 's hard-working side are still trying to sort out their system , which involves a spare defender and , as far as one can see , a good deal of improvisation . |
| 9 | Like the artists in La Boheme , Aggie and Sprugg — Deverell 's two winos - spend a good deal of time play-acting , in an operative sort of way . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In drawing attention to many such embarrassments , Davie 's book is sure to provoke a good deal of rancour in certain circles . |
| 12 | All the same there is a growing swell of support for electoral reform within the Labour movement and a good deal of support among MPs . |
| 13 | Mecir , whose world ranking has dropped to 26 chiefly as a result of back injuries , ought to add a good deal of craft to the Silk Cut Championships at Wembley next month . |
| 14 | The Spirit of the Letter pays a good deal of attention to the vellum / scribe / fine penmanship side of the lettering question . |
| 15 | But in no way can effective environmental policies be rendered compatible with the anti-statist , non-interventionist creed which has inspired a good deal of Thatcherite rhetoric . |
| 16 | Ware was a shy man , given to covering his shyness with a good deal of banter . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , by the time of the Queen 's jubilee that summer there was some sense that a good deal of the worst might be over . |
| 18 | The operative straw seems to have been his exclusion from the inner circle during the twenty-four hours of the joint Anglo-French ultimatum , though back in August Clark had recorded quite dispassionately that ‘ a good deal of effort is going into trying to find a proper pretext for taking military action . |
| 19 | Compared to political leaders in other states , British Prime Ministers spend a good deal of time in the legislature . |
| 20 | The Thatcher record since 1979 has been accompanied by a good deal of inflationary rhetoric from both supporters and critics . |
| 21 | In the following six years the NCNC succeeded in attracting a good deal of support amongst the Yoruba of western Nigeria . |
| 22 | It was unpopular politically , as it involved a good deal of compulsion , and did not survive the chaos of independence . |
| 23 | Commitments to matching finance are seldom adequately analyzed , and although the recipient governments may carry a good deal of the responsibility for this , donors are also at fault in assuming that the counter-part funds for their projects will have priority . |
| 24 | The picture which emerges is one where there was a good deal of casual crudity and the occasional fight between individuals or small groups but little orchestrated rowdyism or violence . |
| 25 | ‘ You can park here and see a good deal of stock in an hour or two , ’ claims Barbara Humble , who moved out from Bath two years ago . |
| 26 | To correct the curve it was necessary to stretch the concavity and contract the convexity — in furtherance of which he spent a good deal of his time moving across the floor in a peculiar creeping posture , which Doctor Staples referred to as ‘ Klapp 's crawl ’ . |
| 27 | At blindside prop George Mann , recruited from St Helens to ease mounting injury problems , ran with the enthusiasm of a man keen to catch the eye ; and with Kuiti and Nikau generating a good deal of power in the second row , Rovers were hard pressed to close the gaps . |
| 28 | The CD is the more tonally varied , featuring the excellent Lew Soloff playing a good deal of street-festival trumpet on some irresistible buoyant themes . |
| 29 | For my twentieth century British Design retrospective exhibition , he lent me , with a good deal of fussing and commotion , his last remaining ‘ Heartsease ’ cup and saucer , a Wedgwood design of the early 1950s . |
| 30 | Tranmere wasted a good deal of splendid midfield work in the first half with long-range speculative shots into the stand . |