Example sentences of "had great " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major exception to this , the palace shops , have had great success . |
| 2 | Developing the diet has had great scientific spin-offs . |
| 3 | Whether Marx held such a view or not has had great importance for later Marxist polemics , and we shall return to this question . |
| 4 | She would have had great difficulty establishing herself , but as it is she has sold her pottery successfully through shows and through galleries . |
| 5 | In Opposition we had had great fun pursuing Bill Rodgers on the standard of the baked beans and the quality of the fried cod . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Several touring sides are having to play each other because there is no Cornish opposition to play , and we 've had great difficulty in finding referees . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Our young men were quick-tempered , and i have had great trouble in keeping them from doing rash things . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Many men buffeted by fortune will reach retirement prematurely ; some have had great success to be followed by even greater failure . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is the latter development that has had great influence on the creation of the commercial AI industry . |
| 16 | Some people have had great pleasure and good practice from the rhythm of songs which were familiar before losing their hearing — such old friends as ‘ Auld Lang Syne ’ , ‘ God Save the Queen ’ and the Wedding March . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've had doubts that I could play at this level but I 've had great support from everyone . ’ |
| 18 | We talked it through and agreed we 'd had great years together and why should n't we get back together again . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Zoologists have had great difficulty in classifying colugos . |
| 21 | I 've had great fun and great service from the package and used it for designing several garments for both hand and machine knitting . |
| 22 | ‘ Paul 's album has had great reviews , some of which have said it 's his best-ever album . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Malcolm Goodson of Cyprio explains ‘ We have had great difficulty in satisfying orders for our new model UVC . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It is extremely difficult to discover any coherent pattern to the oprichnina and , although it is true his victims included many boyars , Western scholars have had great fun exploding the carefully constructed ‘ class ’ explanations advanced by Soviet historians . |
| 27 | Social anthropologists have had great difficulty in giving a clear definition of taboo , because it involves both an element of the sacred , the holy , and of the uncanny , the forbidden , and the dangerous . |
| 28 | When Henry VIII dismissed three of these gentlemen and various other household officials in 1519 , the Venetian ambassador commented that they had had great authority and had been the ‘ very soul ’ of the King . |
| 29 | French state and technocentric-inspired planning have had great successes in both telecommunications and space ; but the British have had their acknowledged successes also — most notably in the broadcasting field , where a traditional consensual policy has been modified step-by-step and channel-by-channel down the decades since 1922 . |
| 30 | In Germany we have had great difficulties in opening branches as our representatives are threatened with expulsion and in Denmark one of our organisers was actually expelled by an order of the Secretary of State of that country " . |