Example sentences of "good deal of [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This story depends for its interest and a good deal of its plot on the existence of the District Line . |
| 2 | The press in general might not greatly favour the movement but a good deal of its comment was still cool and non-committal . |
| 3 | Since the 1950s they had lost a good deal of their influence over him to the Americans . |
| 4 | This is hardly surprising amongst members of a profession who earn a good deal of their living by talking . |
| 5 | Leapor and Freemantle spent a good deal of their time talking about poetry and religion . |
| 6 | Surfers are said to be as exclusive in their manners as the upper classes they have replaced , talking only among themselves and inevitably spending a good deal of their time incommunicado offshore . |
| 7 | These differences led to differing perceptions of their role by the two development officers — in Ipswich the development officer was a little unsure of how she was going to ‘ work in with the existing multi-disciplinary team ’ , whereas in Newham the development officer said she felt she was probably going to spend a good deal of her time negotiating between the different services and ‘ getting them to talk to each other ’ . |
| 8 | She had lost a good deal of her bloom and bounce , and looked as if the sentiments of the burial service kept stabbing her to the heart . |
| 9 | Just trying to put some of those questions to the man was turning the whole ill-fated interview into a monster that dominated a good deal of her thinking . |
| 10 | There 's a good deal of her father in her , I dare say . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm afraid I 've taken up a good deal of your time for no purpose Mr. Preston . |
| 12 | It occupies a good deal of our conversation , you know , ‘ How are you ? ’ , |
| 13 | The pursuit of happiness through developing rewarding emotional ties with other people is something most of us spend a good deal of our lives attempting . |
| 14 | He also devoted a good deal of his investigations to the extraordinary satin bower-bird , a native of the area and so called for its remarkable habit of building and decorating a sort of stage-set , in which it would perform ritual mating dances . |
| 15 | For years it was believed that the ‘ fanatic ’ Toscanini conducted everything very fast , though it is an attested fact that his Bayreuth Parsifal was the slowest in the theatre 's history and that his famous Falstaff , not to mention a good deal of his Mozart and Brahms , was unusually broad in its pacing . |
| 16 | To correct the curve it was necessary to stretch the concavity and contract the convexity — in furtherance of which he spent a good deal of his time moving across the floor in a peculiar creeping posture , which Doctor Staples referred to as ‘ Klapp 's crawl ’ . |
| 17 | Nicholson , who was spending a good deal of his time in the new BBS offices , which he hoped would be the starting point of his own aspirations towards directing , chipped in with the observation that his biker pictures had all grossed respectable money and made very handsome profits from a low outlay . |
| 18 | Finchie , meanwhile , was spending a good deal of his time at Oblatz , a bar-restaurant just across the street from the studio . |
| 19 | On that thought , a streak of fairness smote Fabia and she became guiltily aware that , since he must spend a good deal of his time cooped up in his office , it was no wonder that he wanted to enjoy his walks without any prying journalist asking the ‘ whys and wherefores ’ of everything . |
| 20 | ‘ Even diluted like I use it , ’ the mother told him , ‘ it makes a good deal of my hair fall out , so goodness knows what 's going to happen to you . |
| 21 | ‘ A good deal of my time is naturally devoted to such a big client — ‘ |