Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our friend Drummle has won a great prize ! |
| 2 | ‘ David has done a great job over the last few weeks but he still has playing ambitions . |
| 3 | During his active career as a painter and teacher David Crone has contributed a great deal to the advancement of contemporary visual art in Ireland and has gained a considerable reputation as one of the most important Irish artists at home and internationally . |
| 4 | I knew you were heading for Dublin , knew which hotel , because Donal had made a great point of telling me , and so , when the dinner I was at proved to be as boring and interminable as I had known it would , I left . |
| 5 | Sears , Maccoby and Levin had described a great many such relationships : the greatest upset in children resulting from severe toilet training , for example , was found when it was combined with a cold , undemonstrative attitude on the part of the mother ; children experiencing some rejection tended to show more dependent behaviour than accepted children ; the greatest aggressiveness resulted from a combination of a highly permissive attitude and occasional severe punishment , and so on . |
| 6 | Having left the Army , Drew Benedict had spent a great deal of Sukey 's money buying really good ponies . |
| 7 | Graham added : ‘ Ray 's got a great engine and he loves to attack . |
| 8 | Having studied the different aspects of the novel in detail , I find that Dickens has created a great novel , perfect in every way . |
| 9 | JC : Eric Crozier had had a great success producing The Bartered Bride . |
| 10 | ‘ Anna has suffered a great deal already , yet nothing that 's happened has been of her making . |
| 11 | Irene Pepperberg has spent a great deal of time training an African grey parrot which she calls Alex ( Figure 8 ) . |
| 12 | As Area Manager Martin Ellis said ‘ Adele has accomplished a great deal in her current position of Area Field Biologist , not least in her QA work carried out in the last two years , her Mouse-Alert sales and the careful co-ordination of Sentinel contracts ’ . |
| 13 | President Bill Clinton , giving his first formal press conference since he took office two months ago , said Mr Yeltsin had shown a great deal of courage in standing up for democracy , civil liberties and market reforms . |
| 14 | ( All the PTEs have done a great deal of work on the integration and simplification of fare-structures and the provision of interchangeable tickets . ) |
| 15 | ‘ BR has spent a great deal of time and money building up nationally known brand names and images . |
| 16 | He 's confident , too , claiming : ‘ Benn has taken a great risk in fighting me because , like Ruddock , he is very predictable and I aim to exploit his lack of variety . |
| 17 | I would like to state that CAMRA has done a great deal for beer drinkers throughout the country . |
| 18 | Kopyion had expressed a great deal of interest in these killings but had not passed on all the information available to him . |
| 19 | I think Mr Cook has done a great service to the water environment in this country and the ramifications of this case will be heard for many years to come . ’ |
| 20 | After all it was introduced , and Mrs Thatcher has made a great deal of the fact that it is a head tax not a property tax , it 's the voters she wants answerable , well I 've yet to find an empty house that voted . |
| 21 | Frank Dick has done a great job with the shorter track events , but there 's a huge difference between those and the distance events . |
| 22 | And yet Charles Henstock had found a great deal of happiness in later life since his marriage to Dimity . |
| 23 | By this time poor Dr Dunstaple had voided a great deal of " rice-water " fluid and was seized by perpetual , agonizing cramps . |
| 24 | Mary Lennox had heard a great deal about Magic in her Ayah 's stories , and she always said what happened almost at that moment was Magic . |
| 25 | In his school career , Gazzer had given a great deal of time , energy , and thought to getting round various people , to making sure that they did not take out their boredom , frustration or spite on him , the most obvious victim , the smallest and puniest boy in the class . |
| 26 | But Keegan said yesterday : ‘ Steve 's got a great future at Newcastle . |
| 27 | There is no doubt that Charles has done a great deal that his father has been proud of and has excelled at sports like polo that the Duke of Edinburgh played when he was younger , but the Prince never felt he was good enough . |
| 28 | Barton assured him warmly that Angela had done a great job and he was now confident of getting planning permission on the vast site he had wanted . |
| 29 | Long before we arrived , Herr Wendling had made a great reputation for him and has now introduced him to all his friends . |
| 30 | Being so close to Simon , Yanto had spent a great deal of his childhood here at the garage . |