Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] have [verb] a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | That some very large companies should have lost a great deal of money on their little experiment shows only how unwise their decision to pursue the technology was . |
| 2 | This left him an enormous amount of scope for demonstrating the kind of narrative energy that most English fiction-writers would have given a great deal to acquire . |
| 3 | The move of Kenneth MacAlpin 's capital to Scone must have meant a great deal more physical comfort for kings and their retainers after the rocks and raw rain of Argyll , but the heads wearing the crown were offered little chance of lying easy . |
| 4 | The Consul General would have given a great deal to stop this exchange going any further but he could hardly say anything without worsening the situation for himself . |
| 5 | Such an outcome would have caused a great deal of trouble for the council which could have been largely avoided if the resolution had been directly challenged soon after it was made under Ord. 53 . |
| 6 | Such substantial stratospheric ozone depletion would last for several years and the initial survivors of a nuclear war would have to face a great increase in biologically active UV-B radiation . |
| 7 | The factory workshop has become what Mao would have called a Great Political School . |
| 8 | Pumfrey would have given a great deal to know . |
| 9 | I am afraid I believe a caution would have come a great deal more quickly . |
| 10 | In some circumstances this remained true even in straightforward administrative interactions where strings of questions about what was going to happen next sometimes led to complicated and unproductive guessing games , and where a simple clear statement would have saved a great deal of time . |
| 11 | Rodrigo must have learned a great deal from these intelligent , cultured people . |
| 12 | He and Mother must have thought a great deal of the place to go to that expense at a time when money was so short . |