Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The text has achieved great influence , disseminated widely among senior officers , and taught formally at the Bramshill Police College . |
| 2 | Like the new politics all over Europe , they are passionately ecological , inevitably in a region where the dragon 's breath of unchecked industrialisation has scorched great tracts of lately rural land , sickening trees and children indiscriminately . |
| 3 | ‘ Since 1989 , the industry has made great strides in getting costs down and output up , and maintaining high standards of safety and environmental protection , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ Paul 's album has had great reviews , some of which have said it 's his best-ever album . |
| 5 | He will know that the Scottish Beef Club has had great success in the export market and that the idea of Scottish beef has been extremely successful . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the activities of TNCs , wherever they are and in whatever industry , are increasingly being integrated into global processes of supply , production and marketing and the theorists of the new international division of labour have rendered great service by highlighting these phenomena even if they have done so in a rather one-sided manner . |
| 7 | He will tell them that the proposal has caused great alarm and anxiety , and will ask the company to examine alternative ways of improving the efficiency of its limestone transport system , possibly with a conveyor system . |
| 8 | There is no doubt that the Brooklands Museum has made great strides in preserving part of Britain 's motoring and aviation heritage and to celebrate 85 years of Brooklands an ambitious programme of aviation and motoring events are planned for 1992 . |
| 9 | Leeds City Council has made great provisions for handicapped people in all its buildings and public places , and at Roundhay Park there are scented gardens for the blind . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Advanced shielding paints to insulate electronic equipment has enabled great strides to be made in the information and communications technology field . |
| 12 | Initially , the new campaign had shown great promise , but the sinking of the Sussex provoked an unexpectedly violent reaction from President Wilson . |
| 13 | Erm the North Yorkshire County Council have made great play and we did n't know it was coming in until we got that information , upon the public consultation document . |
| 14 | This year the new editorial team has made great strides to develop the editorial content within a limited budget . |
| 15 | The town has made great strides forward working with the community and business over the past few years in cleaning up the town and making it the kind of place which is able to compete and win a national environmental accolade . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The town has made great strides forward working with the community and business over the past few years , and making it the kind of place which is able and compete and win a national environmental accolade . ’ |
| 17 | In 1620 the Lord President and the Council of the North reported to the Privy Council that the enclosure of the ‘ best part ’ of Galtres Forest had inflicted great hardship upon the poor of Easingwold and Kirkby . |
| 18 | The government 's discomfiture during the Crimean War had aroused great expectations of major change even before Alexander became committed to Emancipation . |
| 19 | The event had created great excitement at all levels of society and was eagerly anticipated . |
| 20 | The news has caused great excitement among scientists in Liverpool , who say their Edinburgh colleagues ' work could provide the missing pieces of the puzzle . |
| 21 | The delay in the prosecution of this claim has created great dissatisfaction amongst Bank Assistants who have viewed the Bank 's blatant stalling tactics with considerable anger . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He plans to market CIRVs in packs of six for £50,000 , and says that while potential users such as the SAS and RAF aircrew have shown great interest in the concept , Whitehall purse keepers have yet to be convinced . |
| 24 | At the same time the government has made great efforts to centralise the control of information . |
| 25 | The Soviet Union has made great strides since the advent of socialism in 1917 and China has achieved a remarkable increase in prosperity in the years since the communists took over . |
| 26 | The incident has caused great concern among officers at Bullingdon . |
| 27 | Within the last two decades , a new approach to this subject has assumed great influence . |
| 28 | The engineer in charge reports that the firm has made great efforts recently to get some new equipment , but there has been a delay in delivery . |
| 29 | An indication that the acceptability of the concept of headhunting has made great progress among employers in Britain is the fact that many of the respondents attested to search consultants ' knowledge of the executive market place , gained over a number of years , and their expertise in certain specialised sectors . |
| 30 | Clever Folly has made great improvement this season , winning three of his five races and he is only 1lb out of the handicap . |