Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] [art] great " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lost in the malai chain of command , shuffled round from captor to captor , I would not have given a great deal for my chances . |
| 2 | So provides section 16 of the Partnership Act , 1890 , and the words have a comfortingly assured ring about them even though long and intimate acquaintance with that Act suggests that comfort will be impaired if here as at other points in the Act one indulges in deeper reflection ; and reflection need not go very deep before one becomes uneasy , because if one takes the words of section 16 into unqualified acceptance and seeks to apply them in practical situations , one does not have to envisage a great number of such situations to find some where the uncritical acceptance of section 16 will lead to manifest absurdity . |
| 3 | For example , Videologic 's real-time video capture and manipulation system , the DVA-4000 board , could not have become the great success it is today without Videologic 's excellent accompanying authoring software . |
| 4 | Such similarities would not have surprised the great anatomist Cajal , who , overwhelmed by his first view of the insect optic lobe , wrote : |
| 5 | By that time , of course , he would already have effected a great many ministerial and policy changes , but there would still have been sufficient sense of novelty about everything he touched to have ensured his eventual victory at the polls . |
| 6 | In real life , of course , you would probably have to master a great deal more information , including details of the premises and the personal particulars of all the key staff . |
| 7 | But whatever those proposals may be , schools now will have the opportunity of opting out , and I think it 's a fair guess that if the opting out legislation had been in place when comprehensive education was imposed upon this county in 1964 , you would probably have found a great number of the grammar schools would have opted out , using the legislation , and I have no doubt whatsoever that in every single one of those cases you would have had a large majority of parents in support of that . |
| 8 | King Alfred 's successes may well have owed a great deal to his predecessors , but in the construction of his network of defensive fortresses we see an ability to command similar to Offa 's , and perpetuated by his son Edward the Elder and grandson Æthelstan , who conquered all England for the West Saxon dynasty . |
| 9 | He could n't have bled a great deal , perhaps a cupful all told . |
| 10 | Achieving this independence will often have taken many years and will certainly have involved a great deal of effort . |