Example sentences of "good deal [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tess thought a good deal about the baptism , however , and wondered if it might mean that Sorrow could be buried in the churchyard , with a church service . |
| 2 | Another important case , which reveals a good deal about the workings of the legislation , is R v Hampshire County Council ex parte J . |
| 3 | The peasant was witnessing members of an informal group of earth scientists known as the International Crustal Research Drilling Group ( ICRDG ) during the early stages of an intriguing and seemingly paradoxical research venture : probing into a mountain range to learn a good deal about the ocean floor . |
| 4 | Further , the data can be used to reveal a good deal about the composition of households — who lived with whom — but far less about the character and quality of relationships which people had with each other ( Laslett , 1972a , p. 1 ; Anderson , 1980 , pp. 36–7 ) . |
| 5 | I learned a good deal about the role of food and drink as a socio-economic indicator . |
| 6 | But from a study of detailed thin sections through the colonies we can deduce a good deal about the growth ( astogeny ) of colonies of bryozoans long since extinct . |
| 7 | Yet we actually know a good deal about the characteristics of good care … |
| 8 | On the journey , between lapses into contented silence , we spoke a good deal about The Criterion , the prospects of which were now less rosy . |
| 9 | How you discuss AIDS will depend a good deal on the way you operate in your family . |
| 10 | I got a very good deal on the buoyancy aid . |
| 11 | This was a chance not only to see some sport , but to make some extra money , and many a good profit made on a good deal on the Friday was lost on a poor horse on the Saturday . |
| 12 | The answer depends a good deal on the value judgements of the government in power . |
| 13 | It depends a good deal on the bulk and ‘ fillability ’ of the food , of course . |
| 14 | She spent a good deal on the house ; well , it was his house , she kept it up for him , even afterwards . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , he said : ‘ It is a good deal for the with-profits fund . ’ |
| 16 | When running a football club one had to take into account the overall strength of the squad , and , to quote Norman Hunter ‘ Leeds is overloaded with midfield players and this is a good deal for the club ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If you have succeeded in fully engaging the sympathies of your readers you will probably have produced for them a main character who is something more than a stereotype , who has about him or her a good deal of the complexity of real life . |
| 19 | The ten subject areas of the NAEP programme cover a good deal of the curriculum , but Greenbaum , et al ( 1977 ) argue that this was limiting . |
| 20 | Before long a good deal of the poetry that women had written would seem decidedly out of date . |
| 21 | As a result the north-east corner of the island had become much more distinctly Protestant in population than the rest , though Protestant landlords owned property in a good deal of the rest of the island . |
| 22 | So far , a good deal of the efforts of such organisations have been understandably directed to the ‘ young ’ old , for example , in providing recreational and cultural facilities for Asians or Afro-Caribbeans . |
| 23 | Most furniture today is fairly low which means that a good deal of the furniture in your room is going to be exactly the same height . |
| 24 | They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs . |
| 25 | But if the extra-mural department has a budget of the order of £50,000 a year , and a salary bill of the order of £40,000 a year , adult education has got to go on whether so-called voluntary committees want it or not ; and since a good deal of the teaching is done by full-time tutors , even the subjects taught will inevitably be dictated to some extent by the department and not by the voluntary groups . |
| 26 | As far as the provision of books , materials , tools and other educational facilities are concerned , a good deal of the cost of provision falls on families . |
| 27 | In conclusion it should be noted that power already exists to utilise delegated legislation to go a good deal of the way along the road proposed by the Royal Commission . |
| 28 | A good deal of the work is done in ad hoc teams as required by an individual patient 's diagnosis and condition . |
| 29 | But writers want to redraft only when they are concerned enough about their work to want to improve it ; a good deal of the writing done in schools pupils would not wish to redraft , because it is n't important enough to them . |
| 30 | A good deal of the care of them is common sense , but it is extraordinary what an uncommon quality that is when it comes to books . |