Example sentences of "have [verb] great " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of several players to have come into the Armagh side of late to join the more experienced brigade , Mark is following in the footsteps of two of Killeavey 's most distinguished players , Gareth and Padraig O'Neill , both of whom have given great service to the county . |
| 2 | This ‘ relational ’ aspect of metaphorical gender suggests something very interesting which feminists of the twentieth century have placed great emphasis upon . |
| 3 | While the exigencies of the war obviously create special demands , the FMLN have placed great emphasis on the involvement of the local population in the military , political and social organizations of their controlled zones . |
| 4 | The realists have undertaken several crime surveys for London councils and have placed great emphasis on the need to look at the pattern of victimisation of the oppressed , claiming that : |
| 5 | The Republicans have placed great emphasis on their claims that the Democrat frontrunner Bill Clinton was guilty of anti American behaviour while he was a student in England . |
| 6 | These companies have developed great expertise in radioisotope technology for their own use over the past 30 years , and these skills , together with special instruments , are now offered by the Group to the chemical , oil and other process industries at large . |
| 7 | Throughout prehistory they have formed great carpet-like layers , the so called stromatolites , like those found in Zimbabwe nearly three billion years ago , slowly calcifying into limestone . |
| 8 | Expressing thanks for the gift said , ‘ Our success is due to the close co-operation between so many people — shipping agents , hauliers , the Port Authority , to name just a few , with whom we have formed great friendships and partnerships over the years . |
| 9 | We have enjoyed great success together but I feel the chance to be published on both sides of the Atlantic by HarperCollins is an exciting stage in my career . |
| 10 | But the Bartók Quartet , whose recordings of the Beethoven Quartets have won great acclaim , make light of the considerable technical demands . |
| 11 | I asked , desperately trying to think of great composers who have written great trumpet concertos . |
| 12 | Their methods , assessing the value to science of published papers , have met great hostility from several of Britain 's leading astronomers , who believe they should be judged by conventional ‘ peer group ’ methods . |
| 13 | In recent years we have seen great efforts being made at all levels to ensure that children learn effectively . |
| 14 | Tenants have suffered great distress ; many thousands of them have been forced out of their homes and businesses . |
| 15 | These mosaics have suffered great damage through the ages , particularly in countries occupied for centuries by the Turks such as Greece and Turkey itself . |
| 16 | Some degeneration can be treated or even reversed and doctors and researchers in our hospitals have made great strides forward . |
| 17 | As expected , in trying to persuade you to take their shares , Anglo-Welsh have made great play of their recent growth in profits . |
| 18 | We have made great strides in de-emphasising the beer parties , but not many people in the general public have noticed . |
| 19 | Cardus , however , feels the factory have made great strides forward with the chassis of the 1991 NSR which in recent years has failed to match the sweet handling of the Yamaha YZR . |
| 20 | Termitologists have made great advances in working out how the pheromone communication system controls and coordinates a colony 's activities , but no one has yet explained how the millions of blind workers , each carrying a tiny pellet of mud , manage to construct between them such ingeniously designed , efficient and large-scale buildings . |
| 21 | Some teams have made great progress : if well organised they can screen diabetic patients at least as well as outpatient clinics . |
| 22 | We have made great progress in our planning systems and in production efficiencies . |
| 23 | Clearly , we have made great progress in bringing inflation under control and we shall soon have a lower rate of inflation than Germany for the first time in a generation . |
| 24 | Many manufacturers have made great improvements in the security of their vehicles . |
| 25 | Now Sir Frederick , recently the police have made great strides forward in encouraging women to come and report rape because until recently they did n't and they did n't want to they did n't want to face the shame and they did n't want to face everything else , Sir Nicholas and and again his wife which is the most worrying I think of this a women saying that that that women deserve to be raped , erm it 's going to make women less likely to come forward is n't it ? |
| 26 | Erm the North Yorkshire County Council have made great play and we did n't know it was coming in until we got that information , upon the public consultation document . |
| 27 | The major exception to this , the palace shops , have had great success . |
| 28 | Our young men were quick-tempered , and i have had great trouble in keeping them from doing rash things . |
| 29 | Many men buffeted by fortune will reach retirement prematurely ; some have had great success to be followed by even greater failure . |
| 30 | Some people have had great pleasure and good practice from the rhythm of songs which were familiar before losing their hearing — such old friends as ‘ Auld Lang Syne ’ , ‘ God Save the Queen ’ and the Wedding March . |