Example sentences of "[v-ing] a [adj] deal of " 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 | These teams may take part in several competitions in the area each week acquiring a great deal of knowledge and expertise as well as the prizes . |
| 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 | The language form which becomes the target for many acquirers of BSL is therefore not BSL itself but rather some pidgin sign form incorporating a great deal of English syntax . |
| 5 | From the point of view of young people with special needs , many of the new courses have the virtue of being flexible , student-centred , and of incorporating a good deal of individual programming . |
| 6 | Another exceptional service available to Harvey Nichols customers is Personal Shopping offering individual consultation and advice on every aspect of your image and wardrobe , with total respect for your own budget , so saving a great deal of time and indecision . |
| 7 | By 1980 the succession of troubles along the Iran-Iraq border , combined with uncertainty as to the international behaviour to be expected of post-revolutionary Iran , was provoking a good deal of disquiet in the outside world , particularly among the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) states . |
| 8 | This in turn made it necessary to repeat the entry for all related activities , causing a great deal of duplication of records . |
| 9 | You might have perhaps two or three dozen , causing a great deal of itching and red rashes — very , very unpleasant , but easy to get rid of . |
| 10 | Although I realise that he can not know of a particular incident that has been drawn to my attention today , is he aware that information has been sent to deceased claimants , thus causing a great deal of distress to the families concerned ? |
| 11 | Therefore during every working day many thousands of items had to be delivered causing a great deal of work , plus a security risk . |
| 12 | By killing Marius then , Nigel would have been sacrificing a great deal of money . |
| 13 | The difficulty level is pitched on the right side of frustration , adding a great deal of playability , but the cassette multiload is a pain in the bum . |
| 14 | In my innocence and with musical aspirations , I thought it would be lovely to be married to a professional pianist ; after all , my good friend Fraser Muirhead was paying a great deal of attention to Margaret Geddes , another of the city 's first class piano teachers . |
| 15 | I am a 40-year-old male , childless by choice , already paying a great deal of tax to satisfy the needs of women and children . |
| 16 | ‘ And so , she repaid me by paying a great deal of attention to you tonight , signore . |
| 17 | Exercise provides a way of releasing a great deal of the muscle tension , and general physical arousal ( adrenalin ) accumulated in the body 's response to stress . |
| 18 | In later years , his paintings were fetching a great deal of money . |
| 19 | One from the LEA was about her 8-year-old son 's transfer to middle school , an event generating a great deal of paper including a list of the available schools ; another letter from the LEA explained parents ' rights of choice and appeal , also dates of open evenings ; yet another letter from the school to which he had been allocated required the parents to sign the tear-off slip and return it to their present school . |
| 20 | At blindside prop George Mann , recruited from St Helens to ease mounting injury problems , ran with the enthusiasm of a man keen to catch the eye ; and with Kuiti and Nikau generating a good deal of power in the second row , Rovers were hard pressed to close the gaps . |
| 21 | And interestingly , one review by Mawer contains the only mention of the Newbolt Report to be included in the Review during the whole of the inter-war period , and this solely in the context of attributing to the Report responsibility for generating a good deal of subsequent discussion of grammar . |
| 22 | Here she blossomed , recovering a great deal of her former vitality and alertness . |
| 23 | We 're all seeing a great deal of concern about dioxins in tampons and nappies , but did you know that incinerators and leaded petrol are also major contributors towards the levels in our environment ? |
| 24 | ‘ We are going to be seeing a great deal of him . ’ |
| 25 | An exhibition can be viewed as a means of getting noticed and attracting publicity and contracts : as a rare chance of seeing a good deal of your recent work together and thus creating an opportunity for self-evaluation and an assessment of the way your work is developing ; and , by no means least , as a way of selling work . |
| 26 | They are also extremely vocal , calling and bellowing a good deal of the time . |
| 27 | Otherwise , if the interviewer does not have shorthand , some form of select*e recording ( probably using a great deal of individual abbreviations ) is needed . |
| 28 | He had been using a great deal of unnecessary and inappropriate tension when reciting . |
| 29 | Both sides were using a great deal of laser energy to very little effect . |
| 30 | Separate software modules are required to handle direct and sequential retrieval , using a great deal of space in main storage ; |