Example sentences of "have [verb] a great number of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has made a great number of friends here who wish him the best of luck , and hope he plans to make frequent visits back here . |
| 2 | ‘ He has had a great number of stitches inserted in the eyelid and underneath the eye in an effort to keep it closed and avoid further damage . |
| 3 | But whatever those proposals may be , schools now will have the opportunity of opting out , and I think it 's a fair guess that if the opting out legislation had been in place when comprehensive education was imposed upon this county in 1964 , you would probably have found a great number of the grammar schools would have opted out , using the legislation , and I have no doubt whatsoever that in every single one of those cases you would have had a large majority of parents in support of that . |
| 4 | So provides section 16 of the Partnership Act , 1890 , and the words have a comfortingly assured ring about them even though long and intimate acquaintance with that Act suggests that comfort will be impaired if here as at other points in the Act one indulges in deeper reflection ; and reflection need not go very deep before one becomes uneasy , because if one takes the words of section 16 into unqualified acceptance and seeks to apply them in practical situations , one does not have to envisage a great number of such situations to find some where the uncritical acceptance of section 16 will lead to manifest absurdity . |
| 5 | Looking back on that then , you must have lost a great number of colleagues and workmates that it must give you sort of mixed feelings looking back on it ? |
| 6 | ‘ I 've met a great number of very interesting people , ’ he murmurs . |
| 7 | Sir John had identified a great number of passages which he regarded as objectionable from the government viewpoint , but I suspect he recognised early on that there was nothing of a very secret nature to conceal and what the government sought to suppress were the comments made by Crossman and others about senior civil servants . |
| 8 | From this overwhelming fact — signalled , be it remembered , most dramatically by Marx — have sprung a great number of the achievements , problems and conflicts of the late twentieth century : economic growth and the attainment of generally high standards of living , sustained partly by extensive welfare services , in the industrial countries ; the rapid growth of world population , due in part to vastly improved medical services ; changes in the structure of capitalism towards a more ‘ organized ’ form , and in the class system ; revisions of the socialist alternative , to some extent as a result of the relative success of ‘ welfare capitalism ’ ; the North-South divide ; the impact of population growth and industrialization on the environment ; and the shifting balance of economic power in the world . |