Example sentences of "be [verb] a great deal " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 He had been using a great deal of unnecessary and inappropriate tension when reciting .
6 I have been walking a great deal , he wrote .
7 ‘ I 've been driving a great deal in the States but it was either a Packard or a Studebaker . ’
8 It is worth remembering that only one boat in the tottering Polaris fleet is working ; serious cracks in the cooling systems of the other boats are necessitating a great deal of expenditure and causing much anxiety to the Ministry of Defence .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 In not taking this step seven years or five years ago , this country could have been saved a great deal of suffering .
12 By killing Marius then , Nigel would have been sacrificing a great deal of money .
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 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 .
15 These are all reasonably inexpensive in pack form , and are used a great deal in electronic projects .
16 I have been helped a great deal just through playing for Dundee High .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 As you use an external filter and regularly vacuum the substrate , you are removing a great deal of the waste material from the system .
21 ‘ A little birdie tells me you have n't been doing a great deal of singing recently .
22 This industry has been spending a great deal of money lobbying intensively in Brussels and Strasbourg to reduce restrictions of their trade .
23 Clearly , the United Kingdom and the Community are doing a great deal to assist the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe generally .
24 I have been giving a great deal of consideration towards the most effective Council Tax structure to be adopted based on the experiences of Community Charge to date .
25 In Leicestershire , the police are spending a great deal of their valuable time assisting neighbourhood watch schemes .
26 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 .
27 Many asylum seekers are middle class , but one need only visit Brick lane to see Bangladeshi people who are suffering a great deal because they are poor .
28 ‘ I know the piece ’ , he wrote ; ‘ it is a very silly play and the translation will have to be altered a great deal if it is to work as an opera …
29 I was lucky to be given a great deal of freedom with the first draft .
30 You wo n't be given a great deal of feedback in that session , just enough to get you going .
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