Example sentences of "been [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 | By killing Marius then , Nigel would have been sacrificing a great deal of money . |
| 5 | Especially as he has been getting a rough deal from some sections of the crowd . |
| 6 | ‘ A little birdie tells me you have n't been doing a great deal of singing recently . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This industry has been spending a great deal of money lobbying intensively in Brussels and Strasbourg to reduce restrictions of their trade . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | By lunchtime Wexford and Burden had interviewed all those members of the darts club that had been present at Jack Pertwee 's stag party with the exception of Maurice Cullam , but none of them had been able to do more than confirm that Hatton had been aggressive , vain and malicious and that he had been carrying a great deal of money . |
| 11 | Especially since by then Laura had been earning a great deal of money , and all the past difficulties had more or less been solved . |
| 12 | But can I just make the point that we have been investing a great deal in British Rail , and the idea that er all over the piece we 're talking about non-modernized railways simply not true . |
| 13 | In the meantime , the Examination Committee has been investing a good deal of effort in communicating with tutors , students , and training organisations about what is being tested in the examinations , by , for example , issuing definitions and illustrations of the skills assessed . |
| 14 | I have been thinking a good deal , as I 'm sure you have , about the decline in income and the urgent need to improve matters . |
| 15 | I have been thinking a great deal about it , and I really think there was much force in what your friends said … |
| 16 | Ever since the two disastrous meetings she had had recently about Matilda , the first with the Headmistress and the second with the dreadful Mr and Mrs Wormwood , Miss Honey had been thinking a great deal about this child and wondering how she could help her . |
| 17 | Interim reporting has been attracting a great deal of attention over the past year . |
| 18 | Have you not read novels , been to the cinema and watched the hero and heroine embracing and realized you have been missing a great deal ? |