Example sentences of "[adv] have a considerable " in BNC.

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1 The Enterprise Centre , under the leadership of Elayne Burley , has already had a considerable influence in effecting change at Napier .
2 It can thus have a considerable therapeutic value !
3 In short , I am , I suppose , a single-minded adversary of the normal beliefs of conventional Conservatives and even more unconventional ones such as Margaret Thatcher , a lady for whom it is impossible not to have a considerable respect .
4 The Iranians already had a considerable religious heritage and it is difficult to decide how much of Zoroastrianism is due to the reforms introduced by Zarathustra .
5 Scottish , Welsh and Northern Irish radio already had a considerable local element .
6 He had found him as a young officer in the Prenzlauer Berg division when he was no more than eighteen , but he already had a considerable appetite for the harsh and cruel police work that the Stasi required .
7 Tom Fearon , an odd moody person at times , nevertheless had a considerable reputation as a lady 's man .
8 Universities have always had a considerable degree of financial autonomy , being funded ( apart from the Open University ) by central government on the recommendation of an independent body , now the Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) .
9 Much of this Part of the Act is administrative in character , but it clearly has a considerable bearing on the scope of the rights to public meeting and assembly in Britain , and accords statutory recognition to the central position of police in the determination of the proper exercise of freedom of speech in public .
10 They have clearly had a considerable effect on the pedestrian accident record .
11 She also had a considerable advantage .
12 The answer to this dreadful conundrum , for both Donnison and Fairbairns , is to elevate the central issue of women 's dependants and to increase benefits for them such that , where women do have dependants — be they very young or very old — women also have a considerable income .
13 Below these , immediately above the village of l'Écluse , in the hollow either side of the D386 , the vines are mostly grown at below 100 metres , and the wines from here had a considerable reputation in the past .
14 Porter has undoubtedly had a considerable impact upon corporate strategic thinking , and in this brief discussion it has been possible to present only the barest outlines of his ideas developed in two sizable books .
15 Those interested in functional explanations of linguistic phenomena ought then to have a considerable interest in the systematics of face-to-face interaction .
16 A realistic example would therefore have a considerable overhead in space for pointers , and the time necessary to access a record through a list may be slow .
17 Although the preparasitic larval requirements of the horse strongyles are similar to those of the trichostrongyles of ruminants , adult horses , unlike cattle , may carry substantial worm burdens and therefore have a considerable influence on the epidemiology of infection .
18 Many people swear that their horse has a sense of humour , especially when it likes tipping them off ; but it is possible of course that these people actually have a considerable sense of humour themselves to put up with the vagaries of their horse !
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