Example sentences of "have a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mobilizing style has a greater appeal when there is dissatisfaction with the status quo and a feeling that new policies are required . |
| 2 | Nowadays , with Synodical government , the Church has a greater say in the appointment of its leaders — well , in theory at any rate . |
| 3 | Aluminium likes silicon : it has a greater affinity for inorganic silicate than for anything else . |
| 4 | No one knows social security better and no one has a greater social commitment . |
| 5 | More urban than its northern neighbour , Bury South has a greater proportion of council tenants . |
| 6 | Water has a greater capacity to absorb heat than any other natural material except for ammonia . |
| 7 | Nicaragua , which has also had a socialist revolution , has a greater emphasis on the private sector in its agrarian policy . |
| 8 | Devon has a greater mileage of roads than any other English county , and all holiday-makers travelling to the resorts of Devon and Cornwall , before the building of the Honiton by-pass , knew the town as a frightful bottleneck . |
| 9 | Morton 's Adhesives and Specialty Polymers group probably has a greater diversity of products and markets — both in terms of end uses and of geography — than any other part of the company . |
| 10 | The reader might wonder why paper money has almost superseded the use of metal coins when even one coin has a greater value in metal than the largest banknote has as a piece of paper . |
| 11 | It may well be in this mis-match of experience that the first seeds of misunderstanding and destructive tension are sown , particularly as the education officer is often perceived as ‘ the authority ’ , in several senses of the word , while the head has a greater knowledge of the processes of education required in school to meet the needs of the children . |
| 12 | This entire case depends on the assumption that the trust to set up a building in the town will be enforced in specie , The plea that payment should be allowed instead is ignored : the town has a greater interest in acquiring a ready-made building than in constructing or commissioning one itself . |
| 13 | Cruttenden 's data also tend to confirm that congruity has a greater effect when it is paired with gender cue , which is the condition in which it would seem , a priori , to be less useful . |
| 14 | The second type : considerably fewer relics of serfdom , the landowner has to a considerable extent already become a capitalist , the peasants are better off and the peasant market has a greater capacity , etc . |
| 15 | Her spirit is infinitely stronger than Charles 's and she has a greater sense of her own destiny than he has . |
| 16 | It is in this sense that the former has a greater valency and so constitutes a better learning investment . |
| 17 | It is feared he will concentrate on domestic policy , when Mr Major , who must overcome the embarrassment of backing Mr Bush , believes the US has a greater role than ever to play on the world stage . |
| 18 | Not feeding for a couple of days before hand clears their systems and helps to make sure your fish eat the remedy , so that it has a greater effect and avoids the problem of rotting herbs polluting the water . |
| 19 | They could also argue that in general there is frequently a difference between morality and legalism and that the former has a greater claim on their allegiance . |
| 20 | The US has a greater experience , having had a Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf ( RID ) since 1964 , and now has a widespread network of interpreting provision . |
| 21 | West Germany has a greater proportion of people economically active but they start work later and retire earlier than do workers in Pakistan . |
| 22 | For example , while sexual dimorphism in size is likely to evolve where variation in male success is greater than female success and a given increment in body size has the same effect on breeding success in both sexes , it will also evolve if variation in reproductive success is similar in both sexes but size has a greater influence on success in males or even if variation in success is greater in females but the effects of size are greater among males . |
| 23 | Marital status has a greater impact on the mortality rates for men than those for women ( see Table 1 ) . |
| 24 | Senior management capability has a greater impact . |
| 25 | By comparing a writer 's choices against other choices with the same sense , " what the writer might have said but did n't " , one has a greater control over the notion of stylistic value . |
| 26 | Some of these now strongly argue that evaluation which is initiated and conducted by teachers in response to their own perceived needs and interests has a greater capacity to promote professional development , because the role of teachers is extended but their autonomy is preserved . |
| 27 | Nobody has a greater respect than I for the working of the law machine . |
| 28 | A tennis ball is more curved , so it has a greater curvature . ’ |
| 29 | Britain probably has a greater percentage of gifted men and women per head of population than any country in the world . |
| 30 | Secondly , because a tax allowance reduces the total income on which a person pays tax , it has a greater value to a high-income person on a high marginal rate of tax than to a low-income one who may , if he or she pays no tax , not gain at all . |