Example sentences of "they [adv] have a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four of our six patients with active disease were on steroid therapy and they still had a greater absorption of PEGs than the patients in remission and controls . |
| 2 | They always had a great deal to say , for they knew one another so well . |
| 3 | They also have a greater tendency to rate themselves as ambitious , highly sexed , strong-willed and well endowed . |
| 4 | But they now had a great advantage because they knew that their viral DNA was in the gene and so they could use this knowledge to fish out the gene that clearly plays some role in limb development . |
| 5 | All feel they now have a great deal more to offer their customers and their employers . |
| 6 | Mr Thornton 's position may be more sympathetically received today , when ‘ paternalism ’ has become a dirty word ; but if , as a later critic was to claim , such philanthropists as Dorothea wished only to fulfil their own personal sentiment of pity and justice , and could not escape the disability of their arbitrary self-appointment , they undoubtedly had a great deal to contribute in the absence of state measures to fill the gap . |