Example sentences of "he have a great [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 He has a great vision of the game , and can play stunning rugby — just as he did in the test against New Zealand when some of his tactical options were simply excellent .
2 He has a great sense of humour and will keep you all well-amused .
3 He has a great generosity of spirit and a vast encyclopaedic knowledge that far outstrips the cozy insularity of his contemporaries . ’
4 On the other hand , he has a great deal of confidence in Noorda 's intellectual prowess and innate capitalism to deliver for Sun what Sun needs from USL as USL 's ‘ largest customer ’ : low royalties , available source , open interfaces , technological innovation and resolution of any channel conflict with SunSoft .
5 He has a great deal of land , his fingers in numerous profit-making pies , owns racehorses — and , of course , the added bonus of being extremely attractive to women .
6 He had a great sense of humour and was more like a teenager than a man nearing retirement .
7 He had a great love of music and when the rehearsal rooms were rented out would join the musicians .
8 As I talked to him , however , I soon realized that he had a great aura of authority and self-assurance .
9 Again I think if Freud and Bullitt were here today , they 'd say , well look we did , in fact , have quite a lot of data , because I , Bullitt knew Wilson intimately for several years and worked with him , and er , Freud had rarely the stuff in erm , in all papers of Woodrow Wilson in the library of Congress or wherever they were , and he had a great deal of data .
10 He had a great appreciation of their visual appeal and he started the whole revolution of using photographs on their own merit and not merely to fill up space . ’
11 Though he had no great stock of small talk he had a great store of commonplaces , which could be adapted to any subject .
12 He had made his best friend aboard promise that he would not be buried at sea — something he had a great fear of — but on land .
13 He has not , as a source , the shrewdness of his friend Charles Greville [ q.v. ] , nor the sharp asperity of his contemporary J. W. Croker [ q.v. ] ; but he had a greater sense of humour than either .
14 He had repeatedly demonstrated that he had a greater tolerance of G-forces than most other men ; Vologsky could take a full three minutes longer in the centrifuge chamber than any other member of his squadron .
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