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

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1 People can come to expect too much of someone who suddenly has great success .
2 Long has great hopes of Clark , who will be making the English Schools youth 1500 metres championship his main target this summer .
3 This all has great relevance to the regular runner as you will soon see .
4 Captain Burrows obviously had great expectations for his new offspring .
5 His intellectual ability was never pushed at you , yet he obviously had great potential . ’
6 He was dignified , he was knowledgeable , and he obviously had great feeling not only for British art but all kinds of art .
7 Elizabeth Fletcher , 14 , from Marton , Middlesbrough , has already had great success in her chosen sport of tennis , playing at county , regional and national level .
8 And they 're the sort of people who are anyway having great difficulty finding er the extra to support their er own workers with their initial Poll Tax payments anyway .
9 We do not have great writers any more , men to whom we can turn for enlightenment and discussion of the most engaging problems .
10 He did not have great difficulty with Churchill .
11 In recent years his ideas have been heavily criticised , and I would guess that his writings do not have great influence on young teachers of English .
12 We do not have great enthusiasm for the Bill .
13 In themselves they may not have great meaning .
14 Generally , these cash buyers seemed to have made a fair assessment of their chances , in that they were unemployed or already had great difficulty matching small incomes to their outgoings .
15 It is not certain that Warrington , best remembered as Philip in Rising Damp , actually swallowed the medicine , but his performances have since had great zest .
16 Even if the Soviet Union is no longer able to give orders , it still has great influence , and Mr Shevardnadze is believed to have used this in calls to Prague , Warsaw and East Berlin .
17 Their recruitment policy has worked very well for them and they are by far the largest outside America , although they are still having great difficulty establishing themselves in the USA .
18 He cites the example shown by Viscount Montgomery in World War N. Laing , who fought under the famous military leader , recalls that the troops always had great confidence in him because he was very visible .
19 A lot of people think of him mooching around sullenly , but he 's got a very dry wit and also has great ability as a mimic .
20 Straw burning for energy also has great potential .
21 It also has great potential for the elucidation of pathogenesis in idiopathic diesase , in the field of epidemiology and in microbiological taxonomy .
22 He can play , that boy : run without the ball , play one-twos , thread balls through , pass and he also has great acceleration .
23 There were brilliant sessions all the time , on buses and at airports — we used to do an awful lot of hanging around at airports and we used to end up having great crack , even doing session on airplanes . ’
24 The return of William Purser to England released me from my obligation not to preach in English , and shortly after his departure I was invited to preach in Rangoon cathedral , then very much a chaplaincy parish church , and only rarely having great services in Burmese .
25 But the thread now has great stretchability .
26 She could see Ana , though , and the face that had drooped at the idea of these visitors was now having great difficulty in not breaking into wide smiles .
27 When a government was poor , as for example that of Stuart England almost always was , its representatives abroad often had great difficulty in getting what it owed them .
28 As a result of the illness , people with schizophrenia often have great difficulty in finding or keeping employment , housing , and relationships .
29 Where we often have great difficulty with Community proposals is when co-operation is replaced not by agreement but by majority voting on issues of concern to us .
30 Children cared for by grandmothers or foster mothers during their first three or four years often have great difficulty when they return to live with their natural parents or a new step-parent .
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