Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soviet cases with political implications were given a great deal of publicity in the West , but there is little reason to believe that the great majority of cases in the Soviet Union were dealt with any less fairly than elsewhere . |
| 2 | The Gods were banished to high places , men were re-created a good deal smaller , and much of the old wild magic was sucked out of the earth . |
| 3 | Lenten food was especially plain , and herbs , and spices as well , were used a great deal in such food . |
| 4 | There 's a man-track in fact , there are several — and they look as though they were used a good deal . |
| 5 | Firms interested in cleaning up their act were offered a special deal : Railside Revival would pay half the cost of materials and community programme workers would do the work for free . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It failed to find a publisher either in Macmillan or elsewhere , but Hardy was given a great deal of largely conflicting and unsettling advice at a time when he was ‘ feeling his way to a method ’ . |
| 8 | He was taken to the hospital by police , where he was given a great deal of medicine and became unconscious . |
| 9 | I do n't think I was told a great deal about the facts of life . |
| 10 | When the use of the vernacular was introduced a good deal of new music was demanded . |
| 11 | It was set a great deal more by the massive alteration in the balance of the Catholic community — the decline of France , Italy and Spain , the rise of Brazil , the United States , the Philippines , even Zaire , the revival of Catholic Eastern Europe , the larger shift from both west to east ( especially in Europe ) and from north to south . |
| 12 | Erm , but erm , I had go was allowed a great deal of latitude . |