Example sentences of "[noun pl] had great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the professionals believed that they had greater patience than their able-bodied colleagues , and often pointed out that their patients and clients had greater confidence in them and were more likely to take their advice . |
| 2 | The two dogs had great fun . |
| 3 | His word was law within the leuga , an area of 1½ miles radius from the abbey gates ; despite the monastic contrast of personal poverty and corporate wealth , the monks had great influence on the economic life of their new town and Sussex estates . |
| 4 | Families had greater incomes to spend , and whilst the relative proportion of income spent on foodstuffs has not increased greatly , the absolute sums spent have risen as a result . |
| 5 | The floor patterns ceased to be confined to the curved , angled or straight lines decreed by the older rules which proposed that certain geometrical figures had great significance . |
| 6 | Always the strong personalities had great power of influence . |
| 7 | The leaks had great similarities with Piper Alpha . |
| 8 | Émigré socialist leaders had greater difficulty communicating with Russia . |
| 9 | ‘ We were delighted by the attendance and all the children had great fun , ’ said Kathryn Hardy , of the Cleveland Wildlife Trust . |
| 10 | Wallerstein and Kelly ( 1980 ) found that ‘ only ’ children had greater exposure to parental conflicts and pressure during the divorcing period than children with brothers and sisters although many children did not consider their siblings helpful . |
| 11 | If children had greater access to a public voice , if they were able to contribute to the social meanings with which we make sense of our world , the result would not be a more ‘ childish ’ set of images . |
| 12 | The central authorities had great difficulty from the start of NEP in collecting taxes of any sort . |
| 13 | In every category , in each subject observed , the boys had greater scores than the girls . |
| 14 | In short , the Arabian horses had greater tolerance than the Thoroughbred horses . |
| 15 | Some lords were fortunate enough to gather aids on other occasions ; many lords had great difficulty in gathering aids at all . |
| 16 | Although there were links to other organizations , such as through Arnold Leese to the Britons and Nesta Webster to the extremist Die-hards , the organization 's political roots had greater connections to the mainly middle-class pressure groups which evolved at the end of the war to protect property against the alleged socialist menace , the most important of which were the British Empire Union , the Middle Classes Union and the National Citizens Union . |
| 17 | Committee chairmen had greater microphone power : they could and did interrupt speakers , overriding their speeches with voluble and sometimes lengthy rehearsals of facts and figures ; they intervened to answer rhetorical questions or to explain that they were irrelevant . |