Example sentences of "had great " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Always short of money , Pound in the twenties found one outlet after another closed to him and had great difficulty making ends meet . |
| 3 | Wardle , Appleyard , Close , Lowson , Trueman and Illingworth entered cricket in Yardley 's reign and all had great respect for his tactical ingenuity and his benevolent , Gower-style leadership although they were to be critical later . |
| 4 | But , he added , appraisal had great potential to improve standards , and regulations requiring local authorities to introduce it would be brought forward eventually . |
| 5 | The central authorities had great difficulty from the start of NEP in collecting taxes of any sort . |
| 6 | It was nothing really radical in terms of modern design — even apart from Malcolm having adapted it from a picture — but it had great presence . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The car broke down , we had great difficulty in collecting the Christmas trees from Jackson 's farm and Ted got into a quite a suicidal mood . |
| 9 | The house had cost upwards of £2,000 to build , and Pugin had great difficulty in selling it . |
| 10 | I think these things were not common in those days and I was looking for someone who had great potential , and decided I 'd found it in David Bowie . |
| 11 | He took more care of himself and he had great natural style . |
| 12 | Later , habit was to help me to find Aunt Louise with the assurance of a homing pigeon ; now , hesitant of asking the way ( being unable to read on the faces of those I encountered whether they were patients or helpers ) , I had great difficulty in finding the right building ; and then — up ill-lit stone staircases and along corridors — in finding the ward to which I had been directed . |
| 13 | Shortly before he died , Mary had noticed that she had great difficulty swallowing food , had gone to her doctor and he had organized X-rays and tests at the local hospital . |
| 14 | He had great force of character , and had become a legend in his own lifetime . |
| 15 | He was ill and lame — and as I am now he had great difficulty in getting to the rostrum . |
| 16 | His intellectual ability was never pushed at you , yet he obviously had great potential . ’ |
| 17 | In Jamaica , as well as tending the Governor 's household , he looked after many islanders who had great faith in him . |
| 18 | This decline in population had great social effects . |
| 19 | Hortense and her sons also went into exile , for all the Bonapartes were banished from France in perpetuity , by a decree of Louis XVIII , and as a result of the hostility of the major European States Hortense had great difficulty in finding some corner of Europe where she could set up home . |
| 20 | It was adjacent to Saint Cloud , but it was of manageable proportions and it had great romantic charm . |
| 21 | Napoleon III in his capacity as sovereign had great personal dignity as well as charm , but as an individual his knowledge of human beings and their behaviour set him apart from other European monarchs , whose more cloistered and conventional upbringing had given them a less perceptive outlook on people . |
| 22 | The children sat on ordinary chairs at normal tables and there were no grab bars or straps despite the fact that one child had great difficulty in controlling his limbs . |
| 23 | Jo loathed her blobby nose , her receding chin , her long body , her short legs , her droopy ass , her fat thighs , her white skin that absolutely refused to tan and her brown hair which frizzed and which her mother would n't even let her frost ; she accepted that she would never look like Faye Dunaway , never be a Prom Queen and that most of her body was a total disaster area , but she knew with absolute certainty that she had great tits . |
| 24 | Both in these positions and as Chairman of the Wellcome Trust for 22 years , he had great influence on the development of medical research during and after the war . |
| 25 | We had great fun going round seeing everybody and building up the bidding . ’ |
| 26 | A colleague of mine in Buckinghamshire had great difficulty in selling his little terraced house ; after months on the market not one person had come further than the front door and he was about to lower the already modest asking price . |
| 27 | In spite of being a reservoir , Carsfad provided excellent sport and we had great fun ; as long as I steered well clear of the dam . |
| 28 | The tall house on Thrush Green had been but sparsely furnished for the young couple had great aspirations but little money , and most of the furniture was solid Victorian stuff given by their parents . |
| 29 | But it had great difficulty in finding the necessary funds for this purpose , and , partly for this reason and partly because of sheer bureaucratic inefficiency , the payment of the subsidies was always much delayed . |
| 30 | On one economic issue after another — the American Loan , the coal crisis , the dollar problem , devaluation , the European Payments Union — they were slow to grasp the true options of policy and had great difficulty in reaching sensible conclusions . |