Example sentences of "[conj] we [verb] a great [noun] " 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 | What I do know is that we owe a great debt to these doughty fighters of the past in banishing the menace of the Krooms for ever from this green and pleasant land . |
| 7 | He will not forget , particularly when we have the presidency next year , that Malta has applied for membership of the Community and that we owe a great debt of gratitude to the Maltese people . |
| 8 | I think she is great , a nice person and a fine actress and we developed a great working relationship . |
| 9 | First , I went round to her pad with my video and we had a great laugh looking at Glenys Kinnock on the verge of tears contemplating the ruin of her husband 's career . |
| 10 | ‘ We both spent most of our time working on the film , walking or sitting about in our dressing gowns and we had a great time together . ’ |
| 11 | The farm runs nearly 3,000 sheep and we had a great deal of interest represented by 641 enquiries , 46 viewers and ten who were seriously interested . ’ |
| 12 | And we had a great deal of commercial encroachment that took place on it in quite illegally and unauthorised manner with Medley boat station expanding on to the banks , and the City Council have been working since nineteen seventy four would you believe , to try and end that and restore that land to common land again . |
| 13 | Does he further agree that that needs to be a Europe which is not only open and ready to trade fully with the rest of the world , but also ready to grapple with the greatest danger facing European stability , a danger which was scarcely mentioned at Maastricht , and which must be faced by ensuring that the nations of eastern Europe make it all the way to open democracies and that the vast and scattered nuclear arsenal of the former Soviet Union is brought under proper control and we prevent a great proliferation of nuclear weapons in the successor states ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Er the Government find it absolutely unacceptable for people to wait on trolleys , once the decision for admission has been made er but My Lords sometimes it is necessary to wait er for observation purposes or sometimes for diagnostic treatments , er which actually have to take place in the A and E department er but My Lords it 's very interesting to see how similar hospitals vary , even within the same vicinity and we believe a great deal of this is due to poor management . |
| 16 | Coach Mike Luke is right to stress the positive aspects of the CANZ contacts when he says : ‘ This is the single most important development tour we can undertake and we learned a great deal about some of Canada 's future World Cup players in one of the strongest and most testing environments the game has to offer . |
| 17 | Well I do want to come back in fact an and reassure er you that er in fact er we are very concerned about that and we spend a great deal of time talking about the A P C's erm statement policy of intent because it was intended to be modified in the way which we thought would and we spent quite a lot of time erm discussing and am re-amending the importance . |
| 18 | And we need a greater trust in God . |
| 19 | In Northumberland , half the farmers are tenant farmers and we need a greater supply of land for rent to ensure the continued prosperity of the tenanted sector , with new entrants being able to come into agriculture . |
| 20 | Thus , we can add the joint income of husband and wife to obtain a total for that unit , whatever we choose to call it , whereas we can not sensibly add their separate statuses to achieve a joint status for both of them unless we know a great deal more about how status is a distributive phenomenon and what its properties are . |
| 21 | The strategy was originally conceived as far back as the late 1960's when it appeared to many of us that unless we obtained a greater command over our raw materials we would be exposed to a fatal squeeze from the oil companies , who were increasingly entering our own field of business . |
| 22 | My heart sank at the prospect of yet again missing the top in the thick fog , but we had a great treat in store . |
| 23 | ‘ But we had a great time ! |
| 24 | tried to call you both saturday nite and a couple of times on sunday — but no answer … the spurs game was just OK — but we had a great time at the newcastle game vs. scousers — great atmosphere — we stood among the newcastle supporters ( north bank ? ) and they made hell each time cole put it behind grobbelar … |
| 25 | But we had a great deal of literature in common , and a love of landscape ; we thought ( Dickens excepted ) the same things funny ; and we had some similar slants of vision . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | But we have a greater probability that we shall self-destruct . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ But there is a problem for the Welsh Highland 1964 Ltd have set their hearts on starting the railway at Porthmadog towards Pont Croesor and Beddgelert whereas we see a great opportunity to start the railway at the Caernarfon towards this end . ’ |
| 30 | Mr. Speaker , Sir , when we had a Greater London Council , the noise of lorries in London was controlled . |