Example sentences of "[vb infin] had great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Gallup survey for The Daily Telegraph suggests that if he had been leader , the party would have had greater success last Thursday . |
| 2 | However the Occupational Pensions Board called for a pensions tribunal and Tony Thurham , chairman of the Association of Pensions Lawyers , said : ‘ Many pensions lawyers would have preferred a tribunal since it would probably have had greater powers and more staff . |
| 3 | One or more of these stages may have had greater impact in some countries than others , creating separate democratic inheritances onto which the extension of the franchise was superimposed . |
| 4 | One would have had greater confidence if the selection were from a longer list nominated by other bodies unconnected with the government of the day . |
| 5 | They should have had greater confidence in their power to heal . |
| 6 | She would have had great difficulty establishing herself , but as it is she has sold her pottery successfully through shows and through galleries . |
| 7 | But for the opening of two artificial pitches at Feltham School , they would have had great difficulty in finding a home venue in recent seasons . |
| 8 | If they had served small areas , the CMHTs would have had great difficulty in liaising with the specialist facilities and organizations ( statutory and non-statutory ) which characterize the mental handicap field and which necessarily tend to cover large areas if not regions . |
| 9 | Ritchie ( 1985 ) and Whittington and Ritchie ( 1988 ) argue that extensive machair has developed in the last 4000 years and that such a fundamental change in the geography and soils of the west coast would have had great influence on settlement history and patterns in this extreme marginal area . |