Example sentences of "have had great [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The complicated postures are such as no freestanding statue of the time could show , and the sculptor has had great difficulties . |
| 2 | ‘ Paul 's album has had great reviews , some of which have said it 's his best-ever album . |
| 3 | We talked it through and agreed we 'd had great years together and why should n't we get back together again . |
| 4 | He 'd had great hopes of that chain . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The EDC concept was perhaps too idealistic to have had great hopes of concrete achievement , and in its implications for European integration perhaps something of a paradox . |
| 7 | Not that Lily had had great hopes , so early on , of winning over Robert 's daughter . |
| 8 | In Germany we have had great difficulties in opening branches as our representatives are threatened with expulsion and in Denmark one of our organisers was actually expelled by an order of the Secretary of State of that country " . |
| 9 | Another group often mentioned is agricultural workers , who are thinly scattered across the land and have had great difficulties in forming a union with political and industrial strength . |
| 10 | Council help has been refused to Strathclyde farmers , who have had great problems in disposing of animal carcasses since the BSE epidemic led to a collapse of local carcass collection enterprises . |
| 11 | French state and technocentric-inspired planning have had great successes in both telecommunications and space ; but the British have had their acknowledged successes also — most notably in the broadcasting field , where a traditional consensual policy has been modified step-by-step and channel-by-channel down the decades since 1922 . |
| 12 | In recent times polytechnics have had greater powers to develop and validate degree programmes internally . |