Example sentences of "[modal v] have great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt at the time , that if such a Call sere presented I should have great difficulty , indeed , in declining it , even in the face of much inconvenience and pecuniary sacrifice . |
| 2 | Had I an opportunity I should have great pleasure in giving you a few hints on this subject which might not be useless . |
| 3 | Bones stresses the importance of language in the Rastafarian religious culture : " according to Rasta doctrine and reasoning , a language must have great significance in terms of its words , sounds and 'powah' , which means 'power' … the 'powah' <+; > is what gives Rasta strength and makes him formidable " ( 1986a : 48 – 9 ) . |
| 4 | I think parental anxieties are something with which one must have great sympathy because very often the anxiety is not so much an anxiety about the child , it 's an anxiety about the parent . |
| 5 | I think parental anxieties are something with which one must have great sympathy because very often the anxiety is not so much an anxiety about the child , it 's an anxiety about the parent . |
| 6 | I mean you 're talking about having computers in the offices and perhaps in the home , now this must have great impact on the future education needs of people who are going to use these devices , surely ? |
| 7 | My only thought is that , IF this is true , Wilko must have great hopes for Mark Humphries , the left back he bought from Aberdeen ? ? last summer . |
| 8 | My only thought is that , IF this is true , Wilko must have great hopes for Mark Humphries , the left back he bought from Aberdeen ? ? last summer . |
| 9 | And they 'll have great difficulty telling your voice and mine apart wo n't they ? |
| 10 | Some donors might have great works of art which they 've lost interest in , or that belonged to their father or their grandfather . |
| 11 | The Party Secretary , like a British prime minister , could have great influence and authority , but in the last resort he was essentially primus inter pares — first among equals — and had to carry his colleagues with him . |
| 12 | In creating one she has inadvertently made a move towards alternative methods of selling that could have great significance for organic farming . |
| 13 | These factors could have great significance for the maturation of possible sources in the Lower Palaeozoic . |
| 14 | And I 'm sure you could have great discussions with the people there and so on about all sorts of things . |
| 15 | She said that we could have great fun there . |
| 16 | So if the panel were minded to recommend an exceptions policy then in the in the light of I eleven we we 'd have great difficulty in recommending other than B one and B two uses . |
| 17 | It is often difficult to predict which patients will be able to develop effective work skills , and some quite seriously disturbed people with persistently odd behaviour can work effectively while others with few overt symptoms of mental disorder may have great difficulties . |
| 18 | Hence , I may have great difficulty in answering a relatively simple question like ‘ Why do you put so much energy into your career ? ’ and I would have even more difficulty in deciding how much energy 1 should put into my career and how much into my family . |
| 19 | Now , say more about that practically , because I mean if you 're depressed , you may feel too depressed to go to a a professional , you may have great difficulty getting there for whatever reason because you 're ashamed as someone mentioned , you 're embarrassed , you do n't want to admit you ca n't cope , which is a syndrome once you get there how do you pluck up the courage to say well actually what your offering me is n't good enough , I 've heard on on television there is something better and I want it ? |
| 20 | On the one hand , individuals ( and working class individuals in particular ) may have great difficulty in identifying and pursuing their collective self-interest . |
| 21 | The plaintiff may have great difficulty in proving causation as in Evans v Triplex Glass . |
| 22 | Yet these same people may have great sources of energy which are only seen in non-career activities . |
| 23 | We used to have great times talking together . |
| 24 | ‘ We used to have great parties here before the war , ’ Tony said . |
| 25 | This would have great significance for the professions , and would also provide a severe jolt to our understanding of the basis of human knowledge . |
| 26 | John Buxton , director of property services , told the council 's works and health committee : ‘ This would have great benefits for the town . ’ |
| 27 | Grass is not her favourite surface and there were many who thought she would have great difficulty holding off the challenges of Steffi Graf , Martina Navratilova or Gabriela Sabatini . |
| 28 | Clearly , many teachers would have great difficulty with strict compliance because of their own convictions . |
| 29 | It was becoming increasingly clear to the Prussians that they would have great difficulty in making their eastern possessions a financial success : the only way to make the eastern marches profitable was to exploit the poor natural resources to the limit and develop industrial capacity . |
| 30 | The problem is that the Boards would have great difficulty in assessing the standard of a course retrospectively , particularly if it has had no dealings with it previously . |