Example sentences of "[verb] have great [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is the latter development that has had great influence on the creation of the commercial AI industry .
2 The complicated postures are such as no freestanding statue of the time could show , and the sculptor has had great difficulties .
3 One Home has had great success with an art therapist who came over to take classes , combining residents from a number of Homes close to each other .
4 Above : the RYA Junior Windsurfing Scheme has had great success in getting young people involved .
5 He will know that the Scottish Beef Club has had great success in the export market and that the idea of Scottish beef has been extremely successful .
6 Whether Marx held such a view or not has had great importance for later Marxist polemics , and we shall return to this question .
7 ‘ Paul 's album has had great reviews , some of which have said it 's his best-ever album .
8 While younger pupils can not be expected to have great depth of understanding and indeed will not reach a mature conceptual level of historical understanding until their mid-teens , none the less the initial building bricks in the process can be laid from the very beginning of the pupil 's school career .
9 We talked it through and agreed we 'd had great years together and why should n't we get back together again .
10 He 'd had great hopes of that chain .
11 Arius received support from scholarly and politically powerful bishops , in particular from the learned church historian Eusebius of Caesarea in Palestine , a man for whom Constantine came to have great respect .
12 The men spoke of him in genuinely affectionate terms , in spite of his nickname , and seemed to have great confidence in him .
13 the logic of human effort , would say that to accomplish great things for God , we 've got to have great faith .
14 Though they seem to have great relevance here , approaches to ‘ counselling ’ have tended to emerge and operate mostly in the context of more able , verbal and reflective groups in society .
15 In many important ways , men still seem to have great advantages over women .
16 Computer people seem to have great status in the eyes of top management and are not governed by the same codes as the rest of the company .
17 I think for the time being I I 'd I 'd I 'd I 'd I 'd I think that it makes sense to be fully in control of it , I think that I you know have great faith in Virgin Atlantic , erm I think that it erm it 's got a great future , erm but erm er I do n't think it would be that easy to erm you know to I do n't think we 'd have partners falling over themselves to get into the airline business in in in this recession .
18 She would have had great difficulty establishing herself , but as it is she has sold her pottery successfully through shows and through galleries .
19 But for the opening of two artificial pitches at Feltham School , they would have had great difficulty in finding a home venue in recent seasons .
20 If they had served small areas , the CMHTs would have had great difficulty in liaising with the specialist facilities and organizations ( statutory and non-statutory ) which characterize the mental handicap field and which necessarily tend to cover large areas if not regions .
21 Ritchie ( 1985 ) and Whittington and Ritchie ( 1988 ) argue that extensive machair has developed in the last 4000 years and that such a fundamental change in the geography and soils of the west coast would have had great influence on settlement history and patterns in this extreme marginal area .
22 The horse appears to have great presence and charisma .
23 Herbally-based remedies of old , using parts of plants fresh or dried in simple infusions , poultices or decoctions , have been found to have great health benefits but , though their method of application is simple , their prescribing is not , since they have to be tailored not only to a given malady , but to the person concerned .
24 But also , he was drawn towards Bernard , whose vision and single-mindedness he greatly admired , and a business which he felt had great potential for further growth .
25 ‘ I have purchased a black lead Pencil Sketch of Mr. Green of Ambleside which I think has great merit , the materials being uncommonly picturesque and well put together ; I should dearly like to have the same subject ( it is the Cottage at Glencoyn , by Ullswater ) treated by you . ’
26 The EDC concept was perhaps too idealistic to have had great hopes of concrete achievement , and in its implications for European integration perhaps something of a paradox .
27 The image meant nothing to him , but appeared to have great significance for the shapechanger .
28 She also wanted to put an end to any sexual intercourse with her husband , though formerly both he and she had had great enjoyment from it .
29 Despite her indulgence of him , she had kept him very much tied to her apron strings and had had great difficulty in relinquishing him to a wife .
30 ‘ When we visited the Ukraine , we had had great difficulty in explaining what a piper looks and sounds like , ’ said Peter .
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