Example sentences of "good deal of [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a good deal of excavation has taken place at Alcester , especially in the south-western suburb around Birch Abbey , very little has received full publication.6 Excavations in the fortified area of the town have always been difficult owing to the presence of modern buildings , but with new developments taking place , they have at last become feasible ; even now , though , the line of the defences is still imperfectly known . |
| 2 | It might otherwise cost a good deal of money to do this . |
| 3 | The sea breeze was strong enough to mould the skirts of passing women , and Grunte , who could remember little of the events of the night , save that he had spent a good deal of money feeding the faces of his party faithful ( ‘ Pity about Hyacinth ’ ) , and that he had been seen back to the Grand after a drink or two by Leroy Burns ( ‘ Grand fellow , must see if I ca n't find him another Sierra ’ ) , gave thought to his pending performance . |
| 4 | But at the last moment , the Bahamian government agreed ( there were rumours that a good deal of money changed hands ) , and a new flight plan was drawn up for Hassan 's 747 . |
| 5 | A good deal of money has been made tarting up riverside and bank top pubs to take account of the new ambiance and to cater to the non-industrial affluent . |
| 6 | It is asking a good deal of students to abstract process from content if lecturers do not do it . |
| 7 | But while the company 's management would not deny an element of luck , they would also point to a good deal of contingency planning that enabled them to react faster than anyone else to ILG 's collapse . |
| 8 | Since the Matthew poems are mysterious , a good deal of speculation has arisen , mainly biographical . |
| 9 | A good deal of discussion focussed , in the early meetings , on whether and how to reduce the ‘ all-pervading ’ influence of the subject boards , and at its second meeting discussed an officers ' draft paper which sought to undermine the boards and considered the pros and cons of the CNAA relating primarily to institutions as a whole . |
| 10 | Although a good deal of success has been achieved with regard to mapping vegetation ( Hathout , 1980 ) , there are still problems with resolution and cloud cover ( Allan , 1980 ) and although these are gradually being resolved by radar , the problem of more detailed and fine-grained interpretation will remain for the foreseeable future ( Deane , 1980 ) . |
| 11 | The forensic laboratory has a good deal of work to do on his clothes , and the contents of his pockets . |
| 12 | There is , indeed , a good deal of work involved . |
| 13 | Similar schemes have been drawn up for several mammalian groups , certain butterfly genera , various reptiles and amphibians while a good deal of work has been carried out on the distributions of the avifauna . |
| 14 | Also it can not be left inside the premises each night without a good deal of work to rearrange the production floor to accommodate it . |
| 15 | But Mr Mutton found support from David Godwin of Cape , who argued that ‘ a bookshop is not a stage for publishers to display their wares in ’ , and considered that a good deal of p.o.s. came across as ‘ a ghastly , ill designed mess ’ . |
| 16 | In a number of countries including France and Italy , it is also apparent that a good deal of prominence attaches to the central union federations . |
| 17 | Certainly as far as Western Europe is concerned there is a good deal of evidence to support them . |
| 18 | There is a good deal of evidence to suggest that managerial and technical talent flows from the domestic sector to the transnational companies rather than vice versa , particularly but not exclusively in the Third World ( see Gershenberg , 1987 , on Kenya ; Okada , 1983 , on Indonesia ) . |
| 19 | There is a good deal of evidence to show , however , that industrial capitalism places women on the periphery of the economy , and for women in a Third World country which is itself on the periphery of a world economy , the situation is even more difficult . |
| 20 | There is a good deal of evidence to show that the reinforcing nature of these divisions has helped to perpetuate the conflict between farmers and environmentalists . |
| 21 | As you know , a good deal of lobbying takes place in the House of Lords to try to strengthen legislation in order to protect the environment . |
| 22 | Unless there had been a general exodus of small proprietors , a good deal of land had been acquired by outsiders , possibly with a view to letting it to graziers . |
| 23 | In England and Wales , as elsewhere , there has of late been a good deal of concern expressed about improving the quality of teaching in schools . |
| 24 | In recent months a good deal of concern has been expressed about students no longer having access to benefits over the summer vacation . |
| 25 | And I will also give you a good deal of freedom to look at the sea . ’ |
| 26 | A good deal of responsibility rests therefore on the local authority and the councillors to deal properly and fairly with any complaint , or finding by the commissioner . |
| 27 | ‘ It is easy to make the judgement that there is a good deal of fatalism held by unskilled workers … [ they ] believe they ‘ do n't have the knowledge ’ to think about the organization of their work . |
| 28 | Director Tony Downes says that IBM has published details in the past , for example for Physical Unit 2.1 , and while these prove a useful guide , he says , there is a good deal of interpretation needed to turn them into usable products . |
| 29 | There is a good deal of self-censorship going on in these chapters about the festival . |
| 30 | We had a good deal of fun doing it . ’ |