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

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1 Commitments to matching finance are seldom adequately analyzed , and although the recipient governments may carry a good deal of the responsibility for this , donors are also at fault in assuming that the counter-part funds for their projects will have priority .
2 If you have succeeded in fully engaging the sympathies of your readers you will probably have produced for them a main character who is something more than a stereotype , who has about him or her a good deal of the complexity of real life .
3 The ten subject areas of the NAEP programme cover a good deal of the curriculum , but Greenbaum , et al ( 1977 ) argue that this was limiting .
4 Before long a good deal of the poetry that women had written would seem decidedly out of date .
5 As a result the north-east corner of the island had become much more distinctly Protestant in population than the rest , though Protestant landlords owned property in a good deal of the rest of the island .
6 So far , a good deal of the efforts of such organisations have been understandably directed to the ‘ young ’ old , for example , in providing recreational and cultural facilities for Asians or Afro-Caribbeans .
7 Most furniture today is fairly low which means that a good deal of the furniture in your room is going to be exactly the same height .
8 They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs .
9 But if the extra-mural department has a budget of the order of £50,000 a year , and a salary bill of the order of £40,000 a year , adult education has got to go on whether so-called voluntary committees want it or not ; and since a good deal of the teaching is done by full-time tutors , even the subjects taught will inevitably be dictated to some extent by the department and not by the voluntary groups .
10 As far as the provision of books , materials , tools and other educational facilities are concerned , a good deal of the cost of provision falls on families .
11 In conclusion it should be noted that power already exists to utilise delegated legislation to go a good deal of the way along the road proposed by the Royal Commission .
12 A good deal of the work is done in ad hoc teams as required by an individual patient 's diagnosis and condition .
13 But writers want to redraft only when they are concerned enough about their work to want to improve it ; a good deal of the writing done in schools pupils would not wish to redraft , because it is n't important enough to them .
14 A good deal of the care of them is common sense , but it is extraordinary what an uncommon quality that is when it comes to books .
15 Most specialist agencies find that a good deal of the counselling and practical advice they give could as easily be provided by someone with less specialist knowledge .
16 The tension between the two absorbs a good deal of the aggression that is felt about a whole range of social experiences .
17 Studies have indicated that the weight conscious , brainwashed by years of ‘ cut out those carbohydrates ’ advice , tend to avoid the bread and potatoes which supply a good deal of the fibre in most people 's diets .
18 Lamb had taken over the Northamptonshire leadership the previous season and had shown himself enthusiastic if inexperienced , but had then missed a good deal of the season through injury .
19 On one occasion he kicked at a fence which was enclosing a footpath , saying ' I have no respect for the Whigs , but I have a good deal of the Chartist in me' .
20 Acquiring the products to be exported from India was not so simple ; the Company directors had to put down the ‘ investment ’ , mostly in silver bullion though public pressure made them include some English products as well , and had to finance a good deal of the running costs of the textile production that they were encouraging .
21 Hemisphere imbalance may seem to explain schizophrenic symptoms , but like a good deal of the information on the development of schizophrenia , it has not yet been backed up by a convincing aetiological model .
22 At the Wardrobe , he undertook a good deal of the accounting work himself , but used three of his own dependants — Hales , Raylton , and Cotton — when he was too busy .
23 They are also extremely vocal , calling and bellowing a good deal of the time .
24 Sceptics might feel that they betrayed a lack of informed thought on the issue of objectives ; and certainly a good deal of the time of the economic planners , the Treasury , the Ministry and the industry over the following decades was to be devoted to the search for more meaningful objectives and standards of performance to supplement these minimal statutory requirements .
25 Granted , he does have five- bedroom house in Bayswater ; he is married to one of the most powerful women in publishing ; but his children go to state schools , a good deal of the time he wears clothes from Marks & Spencer and he does not drive a car .
26 Indeed he seemed to have to keep rushing off to have a word with this person and that ; Helen found herself on her own a good deal of the time , glimpsing him across the room in spirited conversation .
27 Robert Burrows , now promoted to the rank of major , was ill the Red Shield , acting as a welfare officer with the troops , and away from home a good deal of the time .
28 A good deal of the time he or she can get it the first time .
29 As we explore the ramifications of their anatomy we shall encounter a good deal of the stupidity , the greed and self-interest , the plain conservatism — just human resistance to change of any kind — as well as the pure evil of human nature , working itself out in bricks and stone and mortar .
30 A good deal of the letter was fantasy on the part of its sixteen-year-old author and it ended with a great flourish of romantic rhetoric .
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