Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I find I am learning a great deal . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm riding a good deal . ’ |
| 3 | In the circumstances I was asking a great deal . |
| 4 | I do n't think I was told a great deal about the facts of life . |
| 5 | At that point we had six teens and early twenties at home and I was doing a great deal of relating to young people . |
| 6 | But even if the contract specifically caters for termination in defined circumstances , you should still be vigilant to ensure that you are given a fair deal . |
| 7 | As you use an external filter and regularly vacuum the substrate , you are removing a great deal of the waste material from the system . |
| 8 | ‘ You 're spending a good deal of time in New York now , Mark . |
| 9 | Toni Halliday said she 's learned a great deal about women from men , ‘ and some men are able to write about the women we dream of being . ’ |
| 10 | For the advertiser who is concerned as to whether he or she is getting a good deal from an agency or media specialist , companies such as Media Audits provide a service that compares the buying performance of different advertisers and their agencies in similar markets and media . |
| 11 | She was feeling a great deal better about everything , but knew better than to say so . |
| 12 | We are providing a great deal of advice and training for officials of different carriers — and not merely for British Airways , because we do not expect airline officials to be immigration officers ; that is not their function . |
| 13 | M M My Lords , i it is important that whatever is taught to a child between the ages of five and eleven that the child is able to benefit from it educationally if the child is , is overloaded as it were by being presented erm a curriculum that they simply can not manage , then that 's going to create confusion , but it 's also important to say that one of the erm er objectives of this whole exercise is to underpin all education , both morally and spiritually and I believe we 're doing a great deal to get that right . |
| 14 | We got a little higher on this occasion but again ran into severe icing and again we turned back in order to find less cloud and less icing , on tie third attempt we were getting quite near the Alps and we were collecting a great deal of ice . |
| 15 | And so we were involved a great deal in what we would call ‘ protesting ’ but as far as political activity , that was never my thing . |
| 16 | A new generation of canny investors who have inherited family fortunes will quickly switch banks if they think they are getting a raw deal . |
| 17 | This is thought to be widespread , and is causing institutional investors , big holders of junk from the late 1980s , to complain that they are getting a raw deal . |
| 18 | We must recognise that they are getting a raw deal and are being victimised by the Government . |
| 19 | The methodology in Advance with English leads the learners gradually from exercises in which they are given a great deal of guidance , to ones in which there is almost no guidance . |
| 20 | Yeah I do n't think they 're doing a great er I do n't think they 're making a great deal of money out of it themselves . |
| 21 | Yeah , well they 're making a big deal out of it are n't they ? |
| 22 | Bargain-hunters flocked to the stores , believing they were getting a good deal only to find they had paid the normal price or , in some cases , more . |
| 23 | Er it did seem , it did seem , it would seem to a quite a lot of people that they were getting a good deal and they would accept that , and they would , relatively speaking , they were getting a good deal . |
| 24 | Er it did seem , it did seem , it would seem to a quite a lot of people that they were getting a good deal and they would accept that , and they would , relatively speaking , they were getting a good deal . |
| 25 | They were getting a good deal out of staying at our house . |
| 26 | What they had begun to realize was that they were getting a rough deal and that no one else would take any notice . |
| 27 | No wonder they were getting a raw deal . |
| 28 | She had become increasingly alienated from her mother and they were rowing a great deal . |
| 29 | There 's a man-track in fact , there are several — and they look as though they were used a good deal . |
| 30 | An hour later , after coffee and cakes in the canteen , all three of them were feeling a great deal better . |