Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] great " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly , however , their potential role in promoting agriculture and other indigenous activities has gained greater importance . |
| 2 | Many manufacturers have made great improvements in the security of their vehicles . |
| 3 | ‘ Both sets of supporters have brought great credit to their clubs and to the reputation of British football by their exemplary behaviour . ’ |
| 4 | In recent times polytechnics have had greater powers to develop and validate degree programmes internally . |
| 5 | But the displacement of large numbers of people from the rural to urban areas has put great pressure on the previously more privileged urban education sector . |
| 6 | Although the industrial countries have had great success in cleaning their air and water , this very success has often increased the amount of solid dirt . |
| 7 | These companies have developed great expertise in radioisotope technology for their own use over the past 30 years , and these skills , together with special instruments , are now offered by the Group to the chemical , oil and other process industries at large . |
| 8 | The Conservatives have created greater cleavages between the employed and the unemployed . |
| 9 | It is consulted regularly by the Conference of Bishops , and in recent years has made great strides in making the women 's voice heard , and enabling women to play their part in the collaboration at all levels in the Church . |
| 10 | Labour mobility has been achieved by market mechanisms , and training and re-training of redundant workers has assumed greater proportions than ever envisaged by the original Act . |
| 11 | Firstly , due to the low usage figures found by the programme monitors in Phase 1 villages ( described in Chapter 5 ) , the Oral Replacement Workers had placed greater emphasis during Phase 2 on telling the village people about LGS at the expense of telling them about the dangers of adding too much salt to the solution . |
| 12 | General Leclerc 's troops had shown great skill and speed , Gracey said , but much unnecessary brutality . |
| 13 | He looked from face to face , aware that the past three years had brought great changes in his thinking . |
| 14 | American officials had shown greater interest in Korea from 1943 onwards as part of the State Department 's preparations for handling the consequences of Japan 's defeat . |
| 15 | The Republicans have placed great emphasis on their claims that the Democrat frontrunner Bill Clinton was guilty of anti American behaviour while he was a student in England . |
| 16 | Furthermore , other ecosystems have suffered greater damage than the Amazon . |
| 17 | I have been reading AIM as long as I can remember , and over the years have gained great inspiration form it . |
| 18 | Moneylenders have abounded in every society , and in recent years have achieved great importance in developed economies because of the stimulus that their services have given to trade . |
| 19 | Moreover , passive margins have assumed great economic significance since the 1960s as their hydrocarbon potential has begun to be extensively exploited by the oil industry . |
| 20 | Moreover , the P cepacia problem has emerged at the same time as social networks have developed between adult patients with CF , and their families ; many individuals have derived great mutual benefit from these contacts , which provide for most of their social activity . |
| 21 | Mr Goodwin , who recently took over as Suffolk NFU chairman and farms at Syleham Hall , near Fressingfield , said farmers had requested greater help on the high capital cost of farm machinery and buildings . |
| 22 | Some teams have made great progress : if well organised they can screen diabetic patients at least as well as outpatient clinics . |
| 23 | Tenants have suffered great distress ; many thousands of them have been forced out of their homes and businesses . |
| 24 | Other antipodeans have shown greater caution — and greater resilience . |
| 25 | These mosaics have suffered great damage through the ages , particularly in countries occupied for centuries by the Turks such as Greece and Turkey itself . |
| 26 | Zoologists have had great difficulty in classifying colugos . |
| 27 | Termitologists have made great advances in working out how the pheromone communication system controls and coordinates a colony 's activities , but no one has yet explained how the millions of blind workers , each carrying a tiny pellet of mud , manage to construct between them such ingeniously designed , efficient and large-scale buildings . |
| 28 | The industry 's many critics had made great demands and threatened many a crisis but they had not halted the growth of the movies as mass entertainment . |
| 29 | As more reports emerged , putting the death toll in Timisoara between several hundred and several thousand , Mr Ceausescu said the security forces had displayed great patience and had fulfilled their duty towards ‘ the homeland , people and socialist achievements ’ . |
| 30 | The governors had placed great trust in him over the period of ten years ‘ during one of which it pleased its liberal Grand Visitor to take me with him to Ireland ’ . |