Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] a very [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Save The Children Fund programme with the motorcycles has made a very big difference to the number of visits that health assistants can make to villages .
2 They proved to be worthy Finalists having beaten a very good Cork team by three goals to one in the Semi-Final .
3 I think that 's greatly improving now , partly because I think the schools have adopted a very responsible attitude towards it , on the whole .
4 The case of the Vietnamese refugees has highlighted a very broad problem , but within it , of course , there are number of differences and have been particularly involved in the question of people from universities and institutes in the Third World are uprooted and whose work is interrupted by political upheaval .
5 New Zealand rugby and the All Blacks were not quite protected by the armour-plating they wore in the two years after the 1987 World Cup triumph , but the Irish would pay testimony to the fact that the All Blacks had become a very hard bunch of men by the end of their tour .
6 In spite of a long-established programme , with the best technical expertise in the world , the programme over the years has achieved a very mixed success .
7 All in all the rebels had assembled a very considerable fighting force .
8 Bell and Szekeres have considered a very simple situation involving a collision of two step electromagnetic waves .
9 Voluntary agencies have played a very important role in developing local services suited to their own area and providing an access point for information and individual counselling .
10 ’ I do not accept those criticisms.I think the conservators have done a very good job over one hundred and ten years .
11 All in all these developments have had a very mixed reception .
12 To date our Sixth Form colleges have offered a very wide and attractive range of options and opportunities .
13 The Poles had maintained a very efficient educational system under a special national commission up to the time of the partition .
14 Our consultant architects have done a very thorough job of preparing the background papers . ’
15 I believe that our pensioners have had a very poor deal over the past few years —
16 It was found that even existing shareholders had had a very limited knowledge of the savings schemes that investment trusts offer .
17 Social studies on the religiousness of adults have shown a very clear correlation between what they now believe and the spiritual environment of the home in which they were brought up .
18 The Empire foot soldiers have developed a very effective method of fighting which has won many a battle : the detachment system .
19 Until quite recently the socio-cultural anthropologists have adopted a very similar stance .
20 ‘ The Floridians have developed a very interesting relationship with the geese , ’ said the Thing .
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