Example sentences of "be [v-ing] a great [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been using a great deal of unnecessary and inappropriate tension when reciting . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | By killing Marius then , Nigel would have been sacrificing a great deal of money . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As you use an external filter and regularly vacuum the substrate , you are removing a great deal of the waste material from the system . |
| 7 | ‘ A little birdie tells me you have n't been doing a great deal of singing recently . |
| 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 | In Leicestershire , the police are spending a great deal of their valuable time assisting neighbourhood watch schemes . |
| 11 | ‘ We are going to be seeing a great deal of him . ’ |
| 12 | We shall be doing a great deal of work in the coming months to discourage the government from taking a decision which would send book prices soaring and seriously damage the health of the trade . ’ |
| 13 | We should be spending a great deal of our time making children into heroes , identifying good work , putting good examples of work on display and bringing it to the attention of others . |
| 14 | While not stated overtly by most interviewees , although some were asked specifically about this , there was a tendency to use the word ‘ friend ’ to signify a pre-heroin relationship , whereas phrases such as ‘ this guy I know ’ and ‘ a bloke who lives around the corner ’ were used to describe a post-heroin use relationship even though the user might be spending a great deal of time with that person on a daily basis . |
| 15 | ‘ We seem to be spending a great deal of time apologising to one another these days . |
| 16 | No doubt you will be putting a great deal of time and effort into the arrangements for your wedding , ensuring that your chosen colour theme and style are just right . |
| 17 | Mr Paul might be making a great deal of money and becoming famous , and she 'd heard they had asked him to accept an honorary doctorate , whatever good that might do . |
| 18 | Now you seem to be laying a great deal of stress on the introduction of minimum standards , what , what 's the point behind that and what does it mean ? |
| 19 | He thought that she must be feeling a great deal of pain , and that there was nothing he could do about it , and that , if his suspicions were correct , her pain would get a great deal worse … |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Both sides were using a great deal of laser energy to very little effect . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In later years , his paintings were fetching a great deal of money . |
| 24 | They were running a great risk of being intercepted and possibly destroyed , unless they knew what we are bound to suspect : that the English leadership was incompetent , and perhaps divided . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They were making a great game of it . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Especially since by then Laura had been earning a great deal of money , and all the past difficulties had more or less been solved . |
| 29 | It is expecting a great deal of the courts to ask them to review the operational judgment of a chief of police who indicates that he reasonably believes that his forces are insufficient to prevent serious public disorder or serious damage to property . |
| 30 | ‘ I gather she 's making a great success of the English branch of the business . ’ |