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

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1 By 1980 the succession of troubles along the Iran-Iraq border , combined with uncertainty as to the international behaviour to be expected of post-revolutionary Iran , was provoking a good deal of disquiet in the outside world , particularly among the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) states .
2 There was usually a good deal of flexibility in the organisation of these political departments : their number and scope altered easily and often to meet changing demands .
3 The Benefits Agency spokesman said the discretionary nature of the Social Fund scheme permitted local officers a good deal of flexibility in cases where they could provide assistance .
4 This may cost more at the time but could save a good deal of money in the long run .
5 Midianite : the inter-change of terms sound confused , but from late patriarchal times on , there was in fact a good deal of overlap in the use of the terms " Midianite " , " Ishmaelite " , " Medanite " , " Moabite " .
6 There was a good deal of discussion in December 1902 , as to who was responsible for the cost of road widening , the B.E.T .
7 There could have been no better man for the job and Graveney , whose equable temperament has survived a good deal of adversity in recent years , managed to keep everyone content during some trying early days .
8 This usually consists of worship and praise and comprises the singing of a number of songs , with a good deal of repetition in which one song succeeds another without a break .
9 After a good deal of success in his 13 years of moto cross , Zeelenberg would have gone with them but for the advice of manager Jan Huberts , who still manages Zeelenberg and the Sharp Samson team .
10 It must be said that this has apparently been achieved with a good deal of success in many societies in many different periods .
11 It has achieved a good deal of success in this , enabling some compensation to be made for the diminishing pool of potential recruits on the farms .
12 Many of them certainly need a good deal of instruction in the art of lecturing .
13 There is a good deal of rhetoric in this field , and as regards higher education institutions , the increased ( self- ) interest in mature students has been prompted partly by the decline in the 18-year-old age-group by about one-third between 1982 and 1995 ; although for various reasons that decline does not simply translate into a comparable decline in intake ( Fulton 1981 ) .
14 Dyble added the conversion and another big victory looked on the cards , but Basingstoke showed a good deal of spirit in the final half-hour .
15 Another variant of utilitarianism which commanded a good deal of support in fairly recent times was rule as opposed to act utilitarianism .
16 The inter-war years saw a good deal of activity in North Shields by the local branch of the National Unemployed Workers Movement ( NUWM ; see CDP , 1978 ) , whose main base of support was on the Meadowell .
17 That stew of Celt and Teuton , Magyar , Slav , Latin and Scandinavian which comprises contemporary Europe has a good deal of experience in common , not just of wars , but in terms of underlying social and intellectual structures .
18 ‘ I have a good deal of experience in staff relations , ’ he said .
19 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 :
20 It requires newspapers who wish to publish stories about a matter some aspect of which is affected by an injunction against another publication to apply to the court for guidance on whether their story trespasses upon the order in existence — a procedure calculated to give High Court judges a good deal of experience in editing newspapers .
21 At the same time there was a good deal of variation in the ways in which the Bible was understood and interpreted by different groups of reformers , and this led to a further fragmentation of the previously unified world of Christendom .
22 She did a good deal of field-work in the pubs of commuterland , achieving in her story ‘ Summer Schools ’ ( also in the 1958 volume ) an almost ‘ Gothic ’ horror .
23 While no experiment has ever identified an individual quark , there was a good deal of excitement in 1979 when physicists working at DESY , the German national accelerator laboratory near Hamburg , found evidence for quarks and gluons being produced together in high-energy collisions between electrons and positrons ( antielectrons ) .
24 In drawing attention to many such embarrassments , Davie 's book is sure to provoke a good deal of rancour in certain circles .
25 There is , however , a good deal of information in the texts about the wordings suitable for trusts .
26 But the public still had a good deal of confidence in the armed forces and the police , although both were held in less regard than they were ten years ago .
27 Since its launch last November , says that there has been a good deal of interest in the scheme from all sectors of the industry and added , ‘ Through controlled and managed expansion the benefits in terms of new business to the Company are tremendous ’ .
28 Since J. C. Wells 's research on the phonological adaptations made by Jamaicans who had lived for a period in London ( Wells 1973 ) , there have been only a few detailed studies of the language of Caribbeans in Britain in spite of a good deal of interest in all aspects of Britain 's black population .
29 Even in the 1660s Charles II had been complaining in London that his correspondence with his sister , the Duchess of Orleans , was being regularly opened in the French post , while from about 1748 Louis XV himself began to take a good deal of interest in work of this kind .
30 There was certain to be a good deal of opposition in the Cabinet .
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