Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] [art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After four weeks every group had interviewed four of the original subjects , plus others who came in for a single session , and they had all accumulated a great amount of material . |
| 2 | From 10 to 23 of the month there had been a bus-strike , which had naturally caused a great deal of inconvenience . |
| 3 | He argued that the Holy Office had already yielded a great deal . |
| 4 | In 1807 the British again returned to Madeira under the command of General Sir William Carr Beresford , who had already won a great reputation whilst still under forty years of age . |
| 5 | The Public Schools which we visited and enjoyed had already changed a great deal since the War . |
| 6 | This was Tom Chalmers , who had already had a great influence on the development of broadcasting in Nigeria and was later also to have a major impact on the development of radio in Malawi , Zambia , Botswana , Lesotho and Swaziland . |
| 7 | Hawksmoor , who had already had a great deal of experience as an architect , was brought in as clerk of works and it is quite likely that the design was by both men . |
| 8 | The new government set out in 1649 to establish its position with a degree of success which must have surprised everyone who knew about its problems and had not realized the great energy that religious faith gave to its leaders . |
| 9 | In the eyes of elderly people many NHS hospitals were still Poor Law institutions , since many had been built originally as workhouses and had not changed a great deal in appearance . |
| 10 | They all knew that The Hooded Owl had just survived a great crisis . |
| 11 | One woman , who took up a new career in midlife , described how her mother , who had always had a great appetite for life , now seemed.to live through her . |
| 12 | Her father had always had a great deal of time for the Sally Ann . |
| 13 | Whereas the problem of payment of compensation by local authorities to a developer refused planning consent had always proved a great obstacle to effective control , the new situation was that where land was developed , the increase in its value resulting from the grant of planning permission was secured for the community by the imposition of a development charge ( equivalent to 100 per cent of the increase in value ) , to be assessed and collected by a Central Land Board . |
| 14 | Snodgrass embarked on a story about a very famous jewel called the Koh-i-noor , which he thought had once adorned a great King 's State Crown and explained how it had been so rare and so heavy that it had had to be kept locked away behind bars and guards , so that nobody could steal it . |
| 15 | The slight tilt it always had now become a great lunge to one side , and as the mist moved against it the bin appeared to be moving the other way . |
| 16 | He had n't said a great deal , content to look at her as she told him all about life in the convent and of the strange foibles of some of her companions . |
| 17 | Terry 's family , unlike he himself , had n't had a great deal of experience of the world outside the States , so Peg had had an awful lot to learn . |
| 18 | Well , you had n't got a great deal of money , now you would go for a walk out in Edinburgh , out to black Blackhole because Blackhole was a village . |
| 19 | Although Bush had imposed some sanctions immediately following the massacre [ see pp. 36722 ; 36815 ] , he had subsequently faced a great deal of congressional criticism for his " soft " China policy [ see p. 37341 ] . |
| 20 | His nature had been over-mature and he had been focused so much on his career that he had never had a great deal of time for his family . |