Example sentences of "there [vb past] been a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been a great deal of tinkering but no overall review . |
| 2 | There had been a great deal of fussing tonight . |
| 3 | There had not been a meeting of the accident investigation division for fifteen years and there had been a great deal of development in the civil aviation scene in the intervening period , so a meeting was called in Montreal in January and February of that year . |
| 4 | The Navigation Acts were complicated and applying the regulations would have been harder if there had been a great deal of trade between the colonies , but in the seventeenth century most of the trade of each colony on the American mainland or in the West Indies was with England rather than with other colonies . |
| 5 | Regarding effect on lifestyle , 154 ( 36% ) sufferers felt there had been a great deal or fair amount of effect ( 55 ( 45% ) men and 99 ( 34% ) women ) . |
| 6 | There had been a great deal of blood . |
| 7 | This Election provides a stark contrast with the one of 1690 , when there had been a great deal of controversial pamphleteering , and where a significant number of contests had been fought over the issues of the Church and the security of the Protestant Succession . |
| 8 | There had been a good deal of rain , the Thames was high , and a north-westerly had piled up water at the river 's mouth , waiting for a strong flood tide to carry it up . |