Example sentences of "were [v-ing] a [adj] deal " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both sides were using a great deal of laser energy to very little effect . |
| 2 | She had become increasingly alienated from her mother and they were rowing a great deal . |
| 3 | The unit 's financial difficulties were absorbing a great deal of the district team 's time and energy , and the promising consortia development of the previous year had foundered as each district in the consortia sought to protect its own providers . |
| 4 | In later years , his paintings were fetching a great deal of money . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They were getting a good deal out of staying at our house . |
| 9 | Seething at the thought that acne-ridden new savers were getting a better deal than a man of his maturity and substance , he retired like a wounded beast to its lair to ponder the problem . |
| 10 | What they had begun to realize was that they were getting a rough deal and that no one else would take any notice . |
| 11 | No wonder they were getting a raw deal . |
| 12 | The article went on to say that staff employed in the tourist industry were getting a raw deal , and that the government should take a hard line and introduce new legislation on taxation for the hotel industry . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She also talked of naked greed , although it takes a curious kind of logic to see the deprived as greedy while company directors were awarding themselves large pay increases and the ‘ yuppies ’ in the city were making a great deal of money and spending it as conspicuously as possible . |
| 15 | Within five years he had paid back every penny , and by 1960 his ships were making a good deal of money . |
| 16 | ‘ He dared to feel , as many of us did , that the people of Georgia were receiving a bad deal from the Kremlin . |
| 17 | An hour later , after coffee and cakes in the canteen , all three of them were feeling a great deal better . |