Example sentences of "having great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Hanan ( 1969 ) , a venture team is characterized by being relatively small , by being composed of members from various functional areas working full-time on the project , by being willing to take risks , by having a broad objective that is not well defined at the start , by having sufficient resources , by being segregated from the permanent organization , and by having great freedom with a minimum of corporate rules and regulations . |
| 2 | The return of William Purser to England released me from my obligation not to preach in English , and shortly after his departure I was invited to preach in Rangoon cathedral , then very much a chaplaincy parish church , and only rarely having great services in Burmese . |
| 3 | Just , Just one point , point of order they are actually having great problems in getting the translantic flights over there . |
| 4 | An internal survey by the Association of District Councils ( ADC ) , reported in the journal Housing , has found that many local authorities are having great difficulty in exempting from the Right to Buy those properties they consider to be especially suitable for older people . |
| 5 | But , unfortunately , they are having great difficulty in accepting the need to cut overhead costs , which are still far in excess of the target of 18% of turnover and are preventing the Valley Hotel from making a projected net profit by the end of the year . |
| 6 | It is ignored for cast after cast , using a new crust each time of course , but I am not surprised for I am having great difficulty keeping the line from bowing , for the current is slightly faster between the crust and the bank . |
| 7 | Miss Lodsworth , exhorting her guides to greater endeavour in this modern world , was having great difficulty making herself heard over the din of Dancer 's group , who were warming up in the recording studio . |
| 8 | The umpire , who was having great difficulty controlling his dapple-grey pony , hurled the ball in . |
| 9 | In fact she did n't demand anything , apart from a dressing-room on the ground floor because she was having great difficulty with her back at the time , and being in pain , was using a wheelchair most of the time . |
| 10 | Their recruitment policy has worked very well for them and they are by far the largest outside America , although they are still having great difficulty establishing themselves in the USA . |
| 11 | She could see Ana , though , and the face that had drooped at the idea of these visitors was now having great difficulty in not breaking into wide smiles . |
| 12 | He seemed to be having great difficulty in keeping his eyes on the road , but after a corner entailed leaving rather a lot of tyre on the road he apologised then grinned at her . |
| 13 | When he had finished eating , Seb hopped to the back door and opened it slightly , having great difficulty preventing the wind from blowing it open further . |
| 14 | First of all , there are far more accountants around now than there are rats and er we were having great difficulty in getting hold of the rats and I thought , well that sounds logical . |
| 15 | We are focusing most of our efforts er , on dealing with the legalistic situations in a sense , the situations in the courts , the situations of child protection , and we 're having great difficulty breaking into prevention . |
| 16 | Guy Sterne was having great difficulty in controlling his amusement . |
| 17 | And they 're the sort of people who are anyway having great difficulty finding er the extra to support their er own workers with their initial Poll Tax payments anyway . |
| 18 | There were brilliant sessions all the time , on buses and at airports — we used to do an awful lot of hanging around at airports and we used to end up having great crack , even doing session on airplanes . ’ |
| 19 | Shortly after his appointment as Minister of Housing in October 1964 , he telephoned me on a Sunday morning to say that he was having great trouble with his civil servants because he wished to promote an anti-eviction Bill , which would make it impossible for people to be evicted from their premises without special precautions . |
| 20 | The final thing I want to say to you about children 's services is , we have to , we have , having great trouble breaking into prevention . |
| 21 | However , I am anticipating having great pleasure in playing the Chandos CD |