Example sentences of "have be [verb] a great [noun] " 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 THE SPONSORED loco-pull at The Railway Age in Crewe , organised as part of the 1992 ITV Telethon Appeal , has been judged a great success , by organisers , The Ivory Tower , The ‘ Duke of Gloucester ’ Steam Locomotive Trust , and the Trustees of The Railway Age .
7 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 .
8 This industry has been spending a great deal of money lobbying intensively in Brussels and Strasbourg to reduce restrictions of their trade .
9 I 'd been expecting a great hall with a giant round table , towering turrets , a moat and a drawbridge , but , of course , it turned out to be a ruin .
10 By killing Marius then , Nigel would have been sacrificing a great deal of money .
11 In not taking this step seven years or five years ago , this country could have been saved a great deal of suffering .
12 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 .
13 Immediately I saw that if Edward had mentioned that name it would have been deemed a great betrayal .
14 He had been using a great deal of unnecessary and inappropriate tension when reciting .
15 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 .
16 Especially since by then Laura had been earning a great deal of money , and all the past difficulties had more or less been solved .
17 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 .
18 He had been expecting a great difference , but not the extent of the hostility that had greeted him and the reality of a giant Worm wielding enormous electrical energy .
19 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 .
20 Since he had been going with her he had been having a great time .
21 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 .
22 ‘ I 've been driving a great deal in the States but it was either a Packard or a Studebaker . ’
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 I have been thinking a great deal about it , and I really think there was much force in what your friends said …
27 I have been walking a great deal , he wrote .
28 I have been helped a great deal just through playing for Dundee High .
29 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 .
30 Says 24-year-old Alex : ‘ We have been having a great time in Blackpool and are all so excited about coming to Liverpool .
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