Example sentences of "have take great " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past it has taken great efforts by the Merseyside and Greater Manchester police to keep supporters apart in what is widely thought to be the most intense antagonism in the League . |
| 2 | In addition Bill has taken great care to create structure and all the year round interest with shrubs and conifers . |
| 3 | He 's a sadistic man — he must have taken great pleasure in working over Joe last night . " |
| 4 | At thirty-one , he remarks to Louise — a parenthesis to a hypothesis — that if he had ever had a son , he would have taken great pleasure in procuring women for him . |
| 5 | He should have taken great pride in having so very much pleased the world with his choice . |
| 6 | Kold will have taken great encouragement from last weekend 's results at Wembley when his Danish players won two of the five titles , as there was undoubtedly some concern in European badminton after the Asians completely dominated the Barcelona finals . |
| 7 | The warden , Peter de Neville , and his foresters , bailiffs and vendors of wood were accused of having taken great quantities of timber from the king 's demesne park and woods during the preceding thirteen years , for Neville 's own use , for sale and for making lime and charcoal . |
| 8 | The user can quickly key in the document without having to take great care not to make mistakes in spelling or layout , as is necessary with a typewriter . |
| 9 | Assessment in Catholic Religious Education would have to take great care against falling into the trap of only aiming to develop that which readily lends itself to measurement . |
| 10 | Senior members of the SDLP are believed to have taken great exception to the criticism . |
| 11 | It is perfectly clear that long before the procession came into sight , long before the procession had formed , these people in the Markets in their desire to be offended had come down from the side streets and had taken great trouble to he offended , and not only were prepared to be offended but were prepared to throw missiles , stones and other weapons … |
| 12 | When she had protested to Lord Wardley , who was chief billeting officer for that part of Northumberland , he had referred her to a minion who , in turn , had taken great pleasure in pointing out that she could , if she preferred , have some evacuees from Gateshead but , either way , her spare room could not remain empty when everyone was required to make a war effort . |
| 13 | Her mother had taken great care to provide a lot of love and attention to Mary , often at the neglect of the baby . |
| 14 | Sutton had taken great care over his written application for the editorship ; even his later detractors say it was brilliant . |
| 15 | Their names were taken from Amal 's brother , but by the time they were collected and asked to appear before the police for statements they had taken great pains to prepare their story . |
| 16 | I myself had never witnessed a stoning , but Omar had done so on three occasions and had taken great delight in describing to us the fate that awaited weak women who did not carefully guard their honour which was so prized by their men . |
| 17 | Fleury was quite wrong in thinking that Miriam had been nourishing amorous ambitions as far as the Collector was concerned ; on the contrary , throughout the siege she had taken great pains not to allow her feelings to attach themselves to any individual man . |
| 18 | Herrick had taken great pains to make sure he was protected . |
| 19 | She was never to equal her first novel , That Lass o' Lowrie 's ( 1877 ) , a robust account of a Lancashire mining community in which she had taken great care with background and dialect , though Through One Administration ( 1883 ) , a study of a failed marriage against a turbulent background of Washington political life , was noteworthy , and the much shorter The Making of a Marchioness ( 1901 ) is a indictment of Edwardian society . |
| 20 | Poise was going to be the order of the day — poise and sophistication ; she had taken great care to look the part , now all she had to do was feel that way too . |
| 21 | He had taken great pains to make it attractive ; green candles in crystal holders stood waiting to be lit and in the centre was a bowl of white miniature roses , their heads like pale ghosts against the polished wood . |
| 22 | ‘ I have taken great pains to stress that aspect in the sometimes heated discussions , ’ he said , adding he was not enthusiastic about the original proposals and still had serious reservations . |
| 23 | They have taken great pains to eliminate explanations based on freak signals from side walls , or from inanimate objects ( although we can not entirely discount such hypotheses until we have specifically investigated them ) . |
| 24 | We have taken great care to make sure that the foods recommended on the diet are all widely available , little influenced by seasonal variations . |
| 25 | Furthermore , we have taken great care during twinning visits to make sure the teams are fully representative . |
| 26 | We have to take great care to select the visual environment so that its effect can be measured . |
| 27 | Breeders have to take great care and trouble rearing the Raza Prat , slow-growing birds that command premium prices . |