Example sentences of "good deal of [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 A good deal of money and effort is therefore going into study of the human factor , which should ultimately lead to further reduction of accidents and risk .
2 Someone must be doing their housekeeping rather better at those hospitals , especially when one thinks of the help the Memorial Hospital gets from the WRVS and the Friends of the Hospital who raise a good deal of money and have done so for many years .
3 Nobody can seriously suggest that we turn back the clock entirely and return to the world of Constable 's Haywain , where there was a good deal of misery and hunger amidst all that beauty .
4 The systematic study of information technology ( informatics ) is in its infancy and although there is general agreement that its potential for human progress is enormous , there is a good deal of pessimism as to the probability that those who control it will actively seek this end over their own private interests ( see Schiller , 1989 ; Journal of Communication , 1989 ) .
5 The face that confronted her with so much earnest goodwill and innocence , and with , she felt mistrustfully , such incalculable thoughts behind it , was square and brown , with a good deal of chin and nose to it , and an odd mouth with one corner higher than the other .
6 Joanne and the other members of the team of teachers working with the intake year embarked on the new curriculum with a good deal of enthusiasm and more than a little apprehension .
7 You may have a good deal of ups and downs and hard work ahead of you , but sweating on a ridge is , in my opinion , far preferable to plodding up a hillside or toiling along a zig-zag path to a top .
8 As one of the most exposed institutions in Scotland , the HIDB attracted a good deal of criticism whereas planning developments in local government offices often escaped discussion because many of their decisions were ‘ hidden ’ .
9 Although homosexuality is no longer against the law , homosexuals still face a good deal of criticism and stigma .
10 We all know that what he terms his ’ meandering ’ round private Bills has been responsible for a good deal of heartache and not a little management time in British Rail spent trying to meet some of his objections .
11 Education has learned to grab with ease but not to reach out and yet there is a good deal of help that can be given to small businesses and voluntary organisations once the idea of level three partnership has been grasped .
12 Underneath these myths of management , both as giving a sense of status and defining process , we noted that there was a good deal of depression and despair .
13 Being involved in a job which necessitates a good deal of physical activity ( housework , unfortunately , does not rate high in this way , in these days of mod. cons. ) , or taking part in a good deal of sport or walking ( that ten-minute daily dozen does n't really rate here , either ) .
14 Recent years have seen a good deal of change and instability in energy markets and the aim of the study is to investigate how these have influenced , or have been influenced by , the form of contractual behaviour in the markets .
15 Indeed , such a " quasiautonomous " status for English in education makes a good deal of sense when the wider strategic and social context of the Report is taken into account .
16 They may need a good deal of support because of these conflicts , yet this is rarely available .
17 It is an excellent establishment and has attracted a good deal of support and resources from the private sector .
18 This had led in a good deal of theology and piety to a concentration of attention on a vaguely unitarian ‘ God ’ , loosely identified with the Father , and to increasing difficulties in connecting that up in any coherent way with either the Trinity or the incarnation .
19 The old have to accept changes in patterns of living and cultural standards that they can not understand , and cope with rejection by the younger generations , as well as a good deal of sentimentality and shallow stereotyping in private and public references to themselves .
20 As Lord er the Lord Chief Justice said in a television programme Question Time er two nights ago it takes a good deal of experience before somebody 's qualified to be a judge and when you do become a judge you have a great deal to learn .
21 The popular saying that ‘ Finding is keeping ’ is a dangerous half-truth , which needs a good deal of expansion and qualification to make it square with the law .
22 These were , first , that ‘ there is a good deal of concern that the planning system should permit town centre and residential development that is sometimes strikingly out of scale or sympathy with the area affected ’ .
23 His own companions were still coming out of the entrance burrow one by one and there was a good deal of scrabbling and shuffling .
24 The collapse of the command economy has given way to a good deal of racketeering and corruption .
25 Working with children , I often find myself thinking that their young minds have been deprived of innocence , and usually a good deal of fun and happiness along with it .
26 Now that will be hard , that needs a good deal of thought and it 'll take a long time .
27 Suitably bowdlerized , said Viola to herself with a grim smile : if she knew Walter , there was a good deal of slap and tickle involved which did n't get into the account .
28 Most respondents said they felt secure and expressed a good deal of confidence that we would act calmly in an incident .
29 A good deal of credulity and nonsense was indulged in the name of psychology but there was no nonsense about the concept of ‘ psychological obsolescence ’ , the new technique for making people dissatisfied with what they had bought more quickly than ever before .
30 This study attracted a good deal of interest and replication ( Blacksell and Gilg , 1975 ) and in a massive appraisal of the approach ( Robinson et al . ,
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