Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Small wonder , therefore , that egg producers feel they are not getting a fair deal . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | These tactics are also used a great deal to achieve the user 's disguised objective . |
| 5 | But , unfortunately , we are also importing a great deal of paper so we produce more waste than we can cope with . |
| 6 | Those who have cottoned on to the streak of genius in Brittain 's seemingly eccentric modus operandi have struck a rich vein of gold as the stable 's horses are often priced a good deal longer than they should be . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Obviously to say that an ontological existent qua possible topic of discourse is such that on different occasions it can be referred to as " the same A " is not to say a great deal unless a clarification is given of the distinction and the relationship between these two kinds of sameness . |
| 10 | Now at the moment the black chemical that 's in there is not doing a great deal . |
| 11 | So you know quarter to a third and er it 's not got a lot of land with it and of course it 's not mentioned a great deal in directories . |
| 12 | The MBO team , heavily supported by CAMRA , is still negotiating a similar deal . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And the city 's Greensight Project , started by the Rural Preservation Organisation , is now attracting a great deal of attention . |
| 15 | She was suddenly feeling a great deal safer . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ I was not expecting a great deal of management input from them , ’ he says . |
| 18 | The church probably held some two hundred people but was not used a great deal in the 1920's . |
| 19 | Her brain was still having a great deal of difficulty coping with what her eyes were telling her . |
| 20 | The dark , blue-black serpentine which had been popular before was still used a great deal , but now new materials were tried out as well — alabaster , gypsum , limestone , marble and breccia — and some extremely hard rocks like porphyry . |