Example sentences of "[coord] a good deal of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is the saga of the protagonist 's marriage annulment , involving several hearings , frequent trips to Rome , and a good deal of frustration . |
| 2 | These are , of course , commercially important questions and a good deal of money is going into the collection of such data by insurance companies . |
| 3 | All life , for instance , all sustenance , all meaning ( and a good deal of money ) issues from a single household appliance : the toilet handle . |
| 4 | With a reasonable amount of intelligent deduction and a good deal of luck they find the loot of churches on the Spanish Main hidden by the priest-turned-pirate Domingo Mugnoz . |
| 5 | The final communiqué was notable for its extraordinary length and a good deal of self-congratulation ( as when it referred to ‘ the age-old tradition of tolerance and universality ’ which the assembled countries personified ) , yet no-one could deny its significance as a symbol of the Third World renascence . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | However , a good number of geographers have conducted recreational surveys in the last 20 years and a good deal of experience in the methods and techniques for conducting visitor surveys , in particular , has been obtained , so that it is now generally agreed that the following procedure should be followed : |
| 8 | The Elms , who seemed to stand next in line , were plain and sturdy , with pale-ish bark for skin and a good deal of greenery . |
| 9 | ‘ Preoccupation with keeping afloat in a cruel environment produced an indifference to questions about the meaning of the world and a good deal of scepticism about most schemes for changing it . ’ |
| 10 | You 'll also remember it was quite a lively debate , history lessons , buckets and spades presented to the platform and a good deal of passion . |
| 11 | Her marriage to Estabrook had come and gone along that river , and a good deal of pain with it . |
| 12 | Such data are usually extensive and a good deal of compression can be achieved by working in fixed format mode where each item of data for a sample unit occupies its own particular field ( position ) in the line being typed . |
| 13 | There is little public interest in the business of politics and a good deal of contempt for the political process and the political class . |
| 14 | £ Well , I think I really had better stop there , and then if you want to ask any questions erm we can go into them , but perhaps I could just mention two things that I would like to have said more about , one was , that you probably know , there were three or two major epidemics in Oxford , of what they call plague , but it was probably a form of typhus , in 1643 and 44 , and a good deal of sickness , I think , still in 1645 , and the other was that there was a very serious fire , which almost certainly arose from these kind of living conditions , because Anthony Wood says it was a soldier roasting pig , erm and I think a lot of cooking went on in very unsuitable situations . |
| 15 | In a place like Alberta , with that much capital and a good deal of know-how , which he himself had , the boy could be quite wealthy before he was forty . |
| 16 | The library , which had not been in use since Sir John Merchiston 's death some seven years earlier , was a very pleasant room , positioned opposite the ballroom , between Araminta 's parlour and the big saloon , with panelled walls , quantities of shelving , an ivory inlay desk , leather chairs before the fireplace , and a good deal of light , even on this overcast day , coming in from a glazed door leading out into a pretty walled garden . |
| 17 | There was now no doubt about murderous intention on someone 's part and the certainty made me perversely angry , stimulating renewed strength and a good deal of bloody-mindedness . |
| 18 | In Some instances there may be a good many more than one , but here again the magazines will specialise in a specific area and a good deal of study is required to make sure that a particular magazine will be to use the material you are planning to send to it . |
| 19 | Much language study , and a good deal of language teaching , has always been devoted to sentences . |
| 20 | This fluidity of grouping practice , in classrooms dominated by curriculum-specific work areas in which a wide range of totally dissimilar tasks were simultaneously undertaken , occasionally led to extremely complex organizational problems and a good deal of confusion . |