Example sentences of "we have [vb pp] [art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've achieved a great deal . |
| 2 | ‘ In the past 50 years we 've done a great deal of abolition . |
| 3 | But then , of course , in the last year we 've seen a great deal of each other . |
| 4 | Now , as the chairman said we base the salaries of directors on two elements an element of base salary which looks at market levels and we ergo , have a fair base which reflects a sort of medium to upper level of companies of this size we then leverage , very carefully , a bonus scheme related to performance and I believe that is the right thing to do and I believe and so do my fellow directors who sit on that committee believe that it is one of the reasons that we 've seen the great growth in this company over the last five years which you 've achieved and which actually the Chancellor of the Exchequer would very glad about because it is increasing the wealth and the benefit of this country , particularly as a lot of those earnings are coming from overseas and will in , in time be repatriated in Britain . |
| 5 | ‘ Anne — Miss Miggs , ’ began Christine breathlessly , ‘ we 've made a great discovery ! |
| 6 | but I mean other than that , I , I , I 'd like to be dead cautious about that , I , I still think it 's early days , I know we 've made a great success , but it 's early days . |
| 7 | Although we 've advanced a great deal in the last fifty years , we still have a way to go and our self esteem is lower than men . |
| 8 | We 've got a great range of popular Club 18–30 holiday destinations , from the beautiful Balearics to the gorgeous Greek Islands , tantalising Turkey , the captivating Canaries and fabulous Florida ! |
| 9 | PLUS , we 've got a great competition for you . |
| 10 | We 've got three at home and three away , but I always say that not many games have ever been won on paper , and I still think we 've got a great chance . ’ |
| 11 | We 've got a great selection of mail order gifts , and they 're all under £25 ! |
| 12 | ‘ We 've got a great team . |
| 13 | We 've got a very good set up erm my mechanic Mick Day is coming back again tomorrow ; I 'm picking him up from the airport , so that 'll be three years with him and erm I can rely on him to sort of get things ready and erm you know , we 've got a great set up and really I can just concentrate on trying to be erm world speedway champion this year . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ We think we 've got a great potential that we have n't tapped in the past . |
| 15 | Wembley 's Martin Corrie said : ‘ We 've spent a great deal of money substantially improving our toilets and we 're in the process of installing additional facilities for ladies . |
| 16 | ‘ But we 've had a great laugh , in fact it 's like a holiday in the north . |
| 17 | Colleagues , I know that people are starting to move out , and I 'm sure that it 's got nothing to do with Mick 's appearance at the rostrum , but colleagues seriously , seriously for the last couple of days we 've had a great deal of disciplines so please try and be as quiet as possible . |
| 18 | And , and Chairman , that we 've had support , we 've had a great deal of help from party in Europe and it 's kept us informed |
| 19 | And we 've had a great deal of helpful cooperation and it 's very much erm going right into the schools , right into the whole system of government and control of the schools , erm and I think again is going to produce some very interesting results before too long . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've had a great evening . |
| 21 | Our shares plummeted because the City felt we had taken a great risk . |
| 22 | All these questions were dealt with fully during the course , so Derek and I felt that we had learnt a great deal of new and fascinating information that we just could n't have got out of books . |
| 23 | We have completed a great deal and the team knows exactly how a thing must be done , so it is simply a question of completing the sequence , designing our record packaging , and also seeing how the market is developing for the video players and monitors . |
| 24 | We have heard a great deal about the upheavals in Eastern Europe in recent months . |
| 25 | We have heard a great deal about the assistance that will be given to buy-outs . |
| 26 | It was sold as part of the National Bus Company sale to a company about which we have heard a great deal in our deliberations , Stagecoach , which is based in Perth . |
| 27 | On the distinction between education and training , we have done a great deal to bring together the best of education and of training . |
| 28 | ‘ Our intention was always to purchase a CT scanner in our business plan this year and we have done a great deal of work , ’ he said . |
| 29 | On the contrary , it draws attention to the dangers of introducing western technology outside , and even in the west it 's a good illustration this of the extent to which or work in countries overseas has relevance for Britain , because we have done a great deal of work on the implications for the unemployment problem of having technology which requires too much capital , which has a very ratio of capital to labour . |
| 30 | We have repaid a great deal of debt over recent years . |