Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] a great deal " in BNC.
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1 | But most certainly the road to the latter , with its decadence and exploitation , has been made a great deal smoother , shorter and more popular by the compromise and self-interest of the clerics and assorted fellow travellers of the so-called ‘ new morality ’ school . |
2 | The emotive subject of rapes has been given a great deal of publicity , and every case of an alleged rape of a Serbian woman by an Albanian is used as a pretext for fierce agitation among the Serbian population . |
3 | Even at the time of his admission and immediately prior to surgery when he has been given a great deal of information , his overriding concern is how he will cope with a stoma and whether he will be able to manage at home . |
4 | Interim reporting has been attracting a great deal of attention over the past year . |
5 | Taylor has been helped a great deal in the six weeks of preparation for the tour by England 's last great left-arm fast-bowler , John ‘ J.K. ’ Lever and the team 's new top bowling coach , Geoff Arnold . |
6 | I think Klute is a superb film and I think he ( his father ) set an acting style in that film that has been mimicked a great deal since . |
7 | This industry has been spending a great deal of money lobbying intensively in Brussels and Strasbourg to reduce restrictions of their trade . |
8 | By killing Marius then , Nigel would have been sacrificing a great deal of money . |
9 | In not taking this step seven years or five years ago , this country could have been saved a great deal of suffering . |
10 | I could hardly blame him here — at least his feelings ; but even if , with an earlier and exact diagnosis he could have been spared a great deal of pain over a considerable period of time , I realize that nothing could have saved him . |
11 | He had been using a great deal of unnecessary and inappropriate tension when reciting . |
12 | Ever since the two disastrous meetings she had had recently about Matilda , the first with the Headmistress and the second with the dreadful Mr and Mrs Wormwood , Miss Honey had been thinking a great deal about this child and wondering how she could help her . |
13 | Especially since by then Laura had been earning a great deal of money , and all the past difficulties had more or less been solved . |
14 | Before I knew where I was , I had been wagered a great deal of money that I could not do it , and shortly before midnight I was leaving the hallowed portals of Ronnie Scott 's Club . |
15 | This cannon , too , had been fired a great deal and although its muzzle had shown no distortion Harry had an uneasy feeling that it might soon be about to burst . |
16 | By lunchtime Wexford and Burden had interviewed all those members of the darts club that had been present at Jack Pertwee 's stag party with the exception of Maurice Cullam , but none of them had been able to do more than confirm that Hatton had been aggressive , vain and malicious and that he had been carrying a great deal of money . |
17 | ‘ I 've been driving a great deal in the States but it was either a Packard or a Studebaker . ’ |
18 | You see , I 've been offered a great deal of money for information which might discredit Alan Dysart : anything scandalous from his past or present . |
19 | But can I just make the point that we have been investing a great deal in British Rail , and the idea that er all over the piece we 're talking about non-modernized railways simply not true . |
20 | The three Masses and the Gradualia have been championed a great deal in recent years , sometimes meshed with one another in the ‘ liturgical reconstruction ’ manner , although there are reasons for believing that Byrd did not have that in mind . |
21 | I have been thinking a great deal about it , and I really think there was much force in what your friends said … |
22 | I have been walking a great deal , he wrote . |
23 | I have been helped a great deal just through playing for Dundee High . |
24 | I have been giving a great deal of consideration towards the most effective Council Tax structure to be adopted based on the experiences of Community Charge to date . |
25 | Have you not read novels , been to the cinema and watched the hero and heroine embracing and realized you have been missing a great deal ? |