Example sentences of "we have [vb pp] a 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 | ‘ Anne — Miss Miggs , ’ began Christine breathlessly , ‘ we 've made a great discovery ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | PLUS , we 've got a great competition for you . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | We 've got a great selection of mail order gifts , and they 're all under £25 ! |
| 11 | ‘ We 've got a great team . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ We think we 've got a great potential that we have n't tapped in the past . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ But we 've had a great laugh , in fact it 's like a holiday in the north . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've had a great evening . |
| 20 | Our shares plummeted because the City felt we had taken a great risk . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We have heard a great deal about the upheavals in Eastern Europe in recent months . |
| 24 | We have heard a great deal about the assistance that will be given to buy-outs . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | On the distinction between education and training , we have done a great deal to bring together the best of education and of training . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | We have repaid a great deal of debt over recent years . |
| 30 | The introduction comments : ‘ We have witnessed a great change in manners : the substitution of words without blows for blows with or without words ; an approximation in the manners of different classes ; a decline in the spirit of lawlessness . ’ |