Example sentences of "[verb] been [vb pp] a great " 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 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
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 | In not taking this step seven years or five years ago , this country could have been saved a great deal of suffering . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Immediately I saw that if Edward had mentioned that name it would have been deemed a great betrayal . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | I have been helped a great deal just through playing for Dundee High . |