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

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1 Books too — they 've a great lot of books . ’
2 They had a great influence on me .
3 They had a great sense of humour …
4 He they knew that they had a great sense of the weather themselves after being out in it .
5 As professional soldiers they had a great reputation for ruthlessness both in battle and in ravaging the countryside .
6 They had a great passion for women , a great passion for each other , a great passion for music and trains .
7 Well erm I think so , I mean they had a great side under Bill Beaumont 's leadership and it 's been promising for a couple of years with England , and today they actually came through with the goods erm a bit of an anti-climax last year at erm at Murrayfield .
8 There is not much evidence of a determined drive by the Communists to control NICRA and even less that they had a great deal of influence .
9 Thus , older workers were more than twice as likely as those under 40 to say that they had a great deal of respect for the top management at the firm ( 72 per cent ) .
10 They had a great deal of trouble
11 Max Jacob and Modigliani were always assumed to be good friends ; they had a great deal in common .
12 Villa are at White Hart Lane this afternoon with Livermore saying : ‘ We have watched them closely and think they have a great chance of winning the League .
13 They have a great deal of love and affection for the small stores , and the Minister will go down in history as the woman who wrecked them .
14 Directly and indirectly , they have a great deal of influence over curricular matters .
15 They 're not exactly specialist agencies but they have a great deal of experience and they have a commitment to a certain kind of research , and they have , I mean we 've had our run-ins with them as it were , but they have listened , and they 've supported some of our work as well , and I think that they in time will provide a kind of model as it were for a number of erm perhaps less experienced agencies throughout the world , newly set-up ones , as to how it is possible to do consistently good logical rational work in the face of the chaos that a disaster produces .
16 But it 's something that I think someone can only have a go at if they have a great deal of support and a chance to experiment in a way that still gives them the option erm not to change if they feel that they ca n't handle it any other way erm so I think there are a lot of difficulties associated with this kind of problem .
17 A comparison of the three Gospels shows not only that they have a great deal in common but also that , in many cases , the wording of individual stories is either identical or very similar ( for example , compare Mark 2:3–12 ; Matt.
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