Example sentences of "are [v-ing] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | As you use an external filter and regularly vacuum the substrate , you are removing a great deal of the waste material from the system . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | A new generation of canny investors who have inherited family fortunes will quickly switch banks if they think they are getting a raw deal . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | SO Irish Americans think Ulster Catholics are getting a raw deal . |
8 | We must recognise that they are getting a raw deal and are being victimised by the Government . |
9 | The families of children with learning difficiulties are getting a raw deal , according to a national children 's charity . |
10 | POLICYHOLDERS with some of the country 's biggest insurance firms are getting a raw deal as premiums rise steeply , Labour claimed today . |
11 | ‘ Customers are getting a raw deal and have a right to be angry . |
12 | Clearly , the United Kingdom and the Community are doing a great deal to assist the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe generally . |
13 | In Leicestershire , the police are spending a great deal of their valuable time assisting neighbourhood watch schemes . |
14 | 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 . |