Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] considerable [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She has considerable experience in working with people with learning and physical disabilities .
2 She has considerable experience as a journalist and poet , and is currently completing a narrative drama for Christmas .
3 The use of multivariate analysis ( common in igneous geochemistry ) has been little applied to modal compositions of sediments , although it offers considerable potential .
4 Does my right hon. Friend accept that he has considerable sympathy on this side of the House and in the country , especially as there is now some doubt about whether the judge had the power to make the order that he made ?
5 ‘ I realise that he has considerable problems .
6 MARK BOOMLA works in the Entertainments Division of Touche Ross , one of the biggest accountancy firms in the world , He has considerable experience of advising major pop artists and companies on all aspects of their finances .
7 Among his other good qualities are : a strong attachment to his home and a constant readiness to defend it ; he is very willing to retrieve and has a good capacity for tracking ; he has considerable endurance , likes the water and is fond of children .
8 During his working years he has considerable leisure which is bound to have some interactions with work .
9 But he has considerable respect for Derry , a side he has encountered on numerous occasions to date during his speel in charge of Down .
10 Now it is for real and , though the race will be staged on a parkland road rather than a track , Foster believes it has considerable significance for the rest of Cram 's summer .
11 We are satisfied it will be a valuable asset for the immediate area and that it has considerable support from the community . ’
12 It has considerable agility , and its powers of dry staccato have been so much exploited that this form of musical humour has quite lost its savour nowadays .
13 In many ways it has considerable weaknesses .
14 The cloning of plants using tissue culture is also being used to produce improved crop strains and , as Tudge points out , it has considerable potential for the improvement of oil palms , coconuts and tea , all of which are important economic crops in many developing countries .
15 This kind of access to recording facilities is not of course practicable in many language teaching situations but it has considerable potential on intensive courses where students have many contact hours .
16 The relation seen as Figure 3.30 is in BCNF ( and therefore TNF ) and yet it contains considerable redundancy .
17 It contains considerable protein also , about 35 per cent , but only for animal consumption .
18 a mi a very minor point that is that while we 're er carrying on these negotiations and I , I think it can be done without thought without er making the timespan from the start of this bypass , there is one minor point in that and I think it could be dealt with and , and that is the people of Brandon can see that , that the pedestrian crossing near the small roundabout in the centre of the town is far too close to that roundabout and they er believe that it causes considerable traffic hold ups and I see erm no reason why this pedestrian crossing should n't be moved
19 Their trip was sponsored by a number of organisations , including LASMO , which was particularly keen to support the trip , as it places considerable emphasis on supporting environmental initiatives .
20 He sees considerable scope for the firm widening its client base in the '90s as people inherit houses from their parents and money is available for investment .
21 ‘ It is more difficult to be precise about this than about the earlier phases , partly because the pictures are rarer and less accessible , and have not been adequately photographed , partly because it includes considerable variations . ’
22 I welcome the Bill , even though on the surface it hands considerable powers from Parliament to Ministers .
23 This approach to viscoelastic theory is reasonably successful in the low modulus regions but it requires considerable modification if the high modulus and rubbery plateau regions are to be described .
24 It requires considerable software development and computing resources .
25 It requires considerable commitment by already hard-pressed teachers , and considerable organizational skill by the management team , to ensure that such issues are truly taken on board , and do not somehow fall down the cracks between more clearly defined and familiar roles .
26 It takes considerable experience to judge correctly when and how much power should be delegated .
27 Thus it takes considerable courage and persistence at times for the carer to press the needs of the dependent , let alone her/his personal needs .
28 It takes considerable practice to perfect and if done badly slows you down rather than speeding you up .
29 It takes considerable time and ingenuity to find out who these informal players are , but once discerned , the model performs very well and can be relied upon to enrich , screen , and find sponsorship within the organization , for a good number of complex ideas .
30 The stress this causes varies , depending on what the parents perceive as tolerable , but some find it creates considerable tension .
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