Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bidding for the feasibility study starts later this year and I am confident that we have a great chance . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The more I see of you , the more I 'm convinced that we have a great deal more in common than being related to a tiresome adolescent . |
| 3 | I recognise that we have a great deal of work to do in planning for the next steps in taking our strategy forward . |
| 4 | Finally I 'll just say this to him , I agree that we have a great deal of things to learn from the United States , not in the way he suggests but it is a fact that er over the economic cycle of O E C D between seventy nine and eighty nine er America the United States saw growth of twenty six percent which created eighteen and half million jobs in their free enterprise economy . |
| 5 | However , our oppponents fail to recognise that we have a great amount to learn from those in business who have developed techniques to ensure that large organisations improve their efficiency and deliver their objective more effectively than was the case . |
| 6 | Following the success of Tracy Edwards and her Maiden crew in the Whitbread Round the World Race , women involved in yachting are realising that they have a great chance to attain their sailing goals . |
| 7 | A comparison of the three Gospels shows not only that they have a great deal in common but also that , in many cases , the wording of individual stories is either identical or very similar ( for example , compare Mark 2:3–12 ; Matt. |
| 8 | As one experienced observer of the trade put it , ‘ The companies which suitable candidates work for consider that they have a greater need of their executives ’ services nowadays than the trade at large has . ’ |
| 9 | But I think Lorna and I have a great rapport so we 'll pull it off . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Lovejoy is fun and I have a great time doing it . ’ |
| 11 | " You 'll forgive my rudeness , but I an naturally concerned for your welfare , not only because Tom Rooney requested it — and I have a great respect for Tom . |
| 12 | Your orders are clear and sensible and without arrogance , and you have a great enthusiasm for everything you do . ’ |
| 13 | You feel protected and at rest and you have a great desire for solitude . |
| 14 | When you come to detailed programme planning , you need variety and balance and , if you have a great deal to get through and a concentrated message to communicate , you still have to break it up and give people a chance to relax their brains as well as their bodies . |
| 15 | That means our customers are in a better position to serve their own customers and we have a greater opportunity to increase our share of their business . |
| 16 | ‘ In Byrne , Sunderland have a player who could supply that sort of brilliance and they have a great Cup tradition , too . |
| 17 | on the right there , and they have a great rack full of plants standing there . |
| 18 | But it 's something that I think someone can only have a go at if they have a great deal of support and a chance to experiment in a way that still gives them the option erm not to change if they feel that they ca n't handle it any other way erm so I think there are a lot of difficulties associated with this kind of problem . |
| 19 | ‘ I might not be the youngest but I have a great deal of knowledge which I have been using in the field of local and regional government for years . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ But you have a great talent . ’ |
| 21 | Unless you have a great deal of spare height , do not try to fly right round the field . |
| 22 | We are trying to find some kind of intellectual humanisation which will respect market economic principles , but we have a great distaste for the social Darwinism of Milton Friedman . |
| 23 | But we have a greater probability that we shall self-destruct . |
| 24 | They 're not exactly specialist agencies but they have a great deal of experience and they have a commitment to a certain kind of research , and they have , I mean we 've had our run-ins with them as it were , but they have listened , and they 've supported some of our work as well , and I think that they in time will provide a kind of model as it were for a number of erm perhaps less experienced agencies throughout the world , newly set-up ones , as to how it is possible to do consistently good logical rational work in the face of the chaos that a disaster produces . |
| 25 | Colleagues I 'd just like to put one of er John 's themes and that is that for the next couple of days we 've got a hell of a lot of business to get through and er we 've done quite well so far but er I would certainly be looking where possible colleagues for formally seconding er , as often as possible , if not all the time and I really appreciate your er your assistance in that regard because we have a great deal of business to get through in the next two days . |
| 26 | Less appears to be known about whether his mood swings were severe enough to justify manic-depression as a primary diagnosis ; but Smart himself gives us some clue when he writes : ‘ For I have a greater compass of mirth and melancholy than another . ’ |