Example sentences of "good deal of [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | These are , of course , commercially important questions and a good deal of money is going into the collection of such data by insurance companies . |
| 2 | In the UK , a good deal of space is given to book reviews in the ‘ serious ’ daily and Sunday newspapers and in weeklies such as Spectator and New statesman . |
| 3 | A good deal of evidence was produced to show that children tend to conform to their teachers ' expectations of them . |
| 4 | The local name of the place , the Gold Pit , implies that a good deal of gold was robbed from the site before the French archaeologists started excavating it in the 1920s , and there is good reason to suppose that the so-called Aegina Treasure , which is now in the British Museum , originated here . |
| 5 | For example , there is evidence to suggest that a good deal of communication is achieved not so much by the online assembly of analysed items but by the adaptation of formulaic phrases ( see , for example , Pawley and Syder 1983 ) . |
| 6 | The technical improvements of this period centred around the problem of increasing the fire-power of armies ; and towards this end a good deal of progress was made . |
| 7 | A good deal of improvisation was necessary and Martha had put three tin plates to heat up over the hissing saucepan of beans . |
| 8 | However , a good deal of discretion is left in the hands of the Area Director to determine the merits of the application , having considered ‘ … all questions of fact or law arising out of the action , cause or matter to which the application relates and the circumstances in which it was made . ’ |
| 9 | He gained a reputation as the Buster Keaton of the cricket world , a man who rarely seemed to have any expression on his face and who was not one for the excited cavortings that greet the fall of a wicket ; yet behind the mask a good deal of thought was given to his bowling , and he was liked and respected by his fellow players . |
| 10 | Nevertheless a close inspection of entries in — for instance — BNB , shows that in fact a good deal of information is contained there . |
| 11 | In later years , a good deal of business was carried out with the Severn and Wye Railway Company , Hewlett supplying this trade for at least several decades . |
| 12 | A good deal of heat is lost through the roof of a house , a bungalow , or a top flat in a block , so this should be insulated by a layer of not less than three inches of insulating material . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Since a good deal of writing is context-establishing in this way , it generally reveals higher levels of lexical density than does , for example , spoken conversation , which tends to be context-identifying , concerned with giving the sharper indexical focus to shared lexical information which form-words can provide . |
| 15 | Despite a good deal of lip-service being paid to the need for appropriate admissions procedures , properly formulated care or ‘ treatment ’ plans , and professionally qualified and adequately supervised groupworkers , these objectives have not been fully realized . |
| 16 | The operative straw seems to have been his exclusion from the inner circle during the twenty-four hours of the joint Anglo-French ultimatum , though back in August Clark had recorded quite dispassionately that ‘ a good deal of effort is going into trying to find a proper pretext for taking military action . |
| 17 | A brief look at the content of the women 's programme gives us a flavour of how homosexuality was represented : a good deal of time was devoted to an interview with Steve , a prospective female-to-male transsexual ( displaying a common confusion with homosexuality and transsexuality ) . |
| 18 | The second answer describes a procedure which relies , in principle , upon oral evidence received at the actual trial , a good deal of importance being attached to the impression the court forms of the parties and the witnesses as they give their evidence . |
| 19 | Finally , a good deal of inquiry is made at a local level by local authorities or local voluntary bodies attempting to assess a particular problem in the immediate area . |
| 20 | However , a good deal of tension is created at this point , with the bass playing the expected D while the accompanying chords are first a G major , then an Amin7 , finally releasing this tension by coming together on the sustained D major , which leads positively into the beginning of the next verse , a G major . |