Example sentences of "be [v-ing] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been using a great deal of unnecessary and inappropriate tension when reciting . |
| 2 | I have been walking a great deal , he wrote . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been driving a great deal in the States but it was either a Packard or a Studebaker . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | By killing Marius then , Nigel would have been sacrificing a great deal of money . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're spending a good deal of time in New York now , Mark . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Yeah , well they 're making a big deal out of it are n't they ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Especially as he has been getting a rough deal from some sections of the crowd . |
| 12 | As you use an external filter and regularly vacuum the substrate , you are removing a great deal of the waste material from the system . |
| 13 | We may not like the fact that they stop exports — they affect some of the exports of my constituency — but they are bloody-minded because they think that they , too , are getting a rotten deal from the CAP . |
| 14 | A new generation of canny investors who have inherited family fortunes will quickly switch banks if they think they are getting a raw deal . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | SO Irish Americans think Ulster Catholics are getting a raw deal . |
| 17 | We must recognise that they are getting a raw deal and are being victimised by the Government . |
| 18 | The families of children with learning difficiulties are getting a raw deal , according to a national children 's charity . |
| 19 | POLICYHOLDERS with some of the country 's biggest insurance firms are getting a raw deal as premiums rise steeply , Labour claimed today . |
| 20 | ‘ Customers are getting a raw deal and have a right to be angry . |
| 21 | ‘ A little birdie tells me you have n't been doing a great deal of singing recently . |
| 22 | In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them . |
| 23 | This industry has been spending a great deal of money lobbying intensively in Brussels and Strasbourg to reduce restrictions of their trade . |
| 24 | Clearly , the United Kingdom and the Community are doing a great deal to assist the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe generally . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In Leicestershire , the police are spending a great deal of their valuable time assisting neighbourhood watch schemes . |
| 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 | ‘ We are going to be seeing a great deal of him . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm riding a good deal . ’ |
| 30 | Although she will not be running a great deal , I think she will win a decent prize and could easily prove top flight . |