Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another exceptional service available to Harvey Nichols customers is Personal Shopping offering individual consultation and advice on every aspect of your image and wardrobe , with total respect for your own budget , so saving a great deal of time and indecision . |
| 2 | She was suddenly feeling a great deal safer . |
| 3 | Which shows that it is worth complaining instead of just accepting a raw deal . |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't do that thing on Saturday ‘ ’ he said apologetically to Tim Reagan , who , having sacrificed one of his staff in the arrangement , was mildly suggesting a reciprocal deal . |
| 5 | Although I realise that he can not know of a particular incident that has been drawn to my attention today , is he aware that information has been sent to deceased claimants , thus causing a great deal of distress to the families concerned ? |
| 6 | I am a 40-year-old male , childless by choice , already paying a great deal of tax to satisfy the needs of women and children . |
| 7 | ‘ I was not expecting a great deal of management input from them , ’ he says . |
| 8 | Small wonder , therefore , that egg producers feel they are not getting a fair deal . |
| 9 | Hatton , for example , summed up the delinquency of Reggie Smashem and Billy Dustup as ‘ nothing more serious than the symptoms of healthy , vigorous , adventurous adolescence ’ : ‘ I propose to make a practical examination of this question of the ‘ hooligan ’ ’ , for I am seriously concerned that he is not getting a fair deal . ’ |
| 10 | There is now problems on the streets of , there is anger in the outer areas that through your postal code politics people are not getting a fair deal in the outer areas of this city . |
| 11 | Now at the moment the black chemical that 's in there is not doing a great deal . |
| 12 | really answer the first part of the Noble Lord 's question by saying that er er it is a question of future cost , er we are er we are already spending a great deal of money on the first part er of this er library and er we will have to examine the future cost very carefully and I put it to you to the Noble Lord that it would be a really sad reflection where the field of creative endeavour in which this country is m has most excelled over the centuries , in other words literature to have no single focus for celebration , preservation and active use , it really is er very important that this library continues , but may I remind Your Lordships also that we 're not talking about the s the library in this question , we 're talking about the u the site at present used by the builders . |
| 13 | There have been a number of attempts at detailed classification , some very involved and certainly not avoiding a great deal of overlapping of the categories . |
| 14 | I made sure I got some of the white powder on my fingertips and not making a big deal of it , brought them up to my tongue . |
| 15 | The new dietary proved to be an improvement although the youngest children were still wasting a great deal of the milk porridge , and alternation of a diet with tea and bread-and-butter was advised , similar to that given to children over the age of nine . |
| 16 | Her brain was still having a great deal of difficulty coping with what her eyes were telling her . |
| 17 | Another form of game which has become popular among teachers other than drama teachers has been ‘ simulation ’ , where elaborate game structures are set up usually involving a great deal of time and application in order to teach some specific subject-matter about the civic planning of motorways , starvation in the Third World or executive decision-making in industry . |
| 18 | The MBO team , heavily supported by CAMRA , is still negotiating a similar deal . |
| 19 | Martin Harrison , of GT , believes that for regular savings schemes exit charges would allow greater flexibility to pay attractive rates of commission while still offering a fair deal to investors . |
| 20 | Where mother nature has been meaner in her packaged quantity , with plums for instance , one unit does not have an inbuilt stop mechanism , so we often end up eating a good deal more than we would with a larger fruit . |
| 21 | Otherwise , if the interviewer does not have shorthand , some form of select*e recording ( probably using a great deal of individual abbreviations ) is needed . |
| 22 | The future is now also looking a great deal rosier for children with solid tumours . |
| 23 | He worked with reasonable diligence , getting to Wilden by eight o'clock most mornings , and also travelling a good deal — to South Wales , to Birmingham , to London and even on one occasion to the United States — on the firm 's affairs . |
| 24 | But , unfortunately , we are also importing a great deal of paper so we produce more waste than we can cope with . |
| 25 | They end up learning a great deal about themselves and each other . |
| 26 | Surfers are said to be as exclusive in their manners as the upper classes they have replaced , talking only among themselves and inevitably spending a good deal of their time incommunicado offshore . |
| 27 | Both effects can be traced to the compound capsaicin , which is now creating a great deal of interest in the neurophysiological as well as the culinary community . |
| 28 | And the city 's Greensight Project , started by the Rural Preservation Organisation , is now attracting a great deal of attention . |
| 29 | I continued walking the streets for three years , sometimes making a good deal of money , sometimes none , feasting one day and starving the next . |
| 30 | Masturbation , in fact , goes with either having a great deal of sex or very little or none at all . |