Example sentences of "have be [verb] a [adj] deal " in BNC.

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1 The tort has been extended a good deal since Lumley v. Gye and in its modern form its requirements may be summarised as follows .
2 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 .
3 In the meantime , the Examination Committee has been investing a good deal of effort in communicating with tutors , students , and training organisations about what is being tested in the examinations , by , for example , issuing definitions and illustrations of the skills assessed .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Especially as he has been getting a rough deal from some sections of the crowd .
7 Interim reporting has been attracting a great deal of attention over the past year .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Now we can reveal he has been offered a new deal worth an EXTRA 2,000 a week .
11 This industry has been spending a great deal of money lobbying intensively in Brussels and Strasbourg to reduce restrictions of their trade .
12 By killing Marius then , Nigel would have been sacrificing a great deal of money .
13 We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here .
14 In not taking this step seven years or five years ago , this country could have been saved a great deal of suffering .
15 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 .
16 He had been using a great deal of unnecessary and inappropriate tension when reciting .
17 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 .
18 When the cameras had long since departed , I was left to carry the can and answer any angry participants who felt they had been given a raw deal .
19 Especially since by then Laura had been earning a great deal of money , and all the past difficulties had more or less been solved .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them .
23 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 .
24 ‘ I 've been driving a great deal in the States but it was either a Packard or a Studebaker . ’
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 I have been thinking a good deal , as I 'm sure you have , about the decline in income and the urgent need to improve matters .
29 I have been thinking a great deal about it , and I really think there was much force in what your friends said …
30 I have been walking a great deal , he wrote .
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