Example sentences of "they have a great [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Books too — they 've a great lot of books . ’ |
| 2 | They had a great sense of humour … |
| 3 | He they knew that they had a great sense of the weather themselves after being out in it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | They had a great deal of trouble |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Directly and indirectly , they have a great deal of influence over curricular matters . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |