Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should have taken great pride in having so very much pleased the world with his choice . |
| 2 | Even if such inscriptions were non-existent rather than just rare , it would be no more than commonsense to guess that generals in the field must have enjoyed great executive latitude , especially in wartime — more latitude than was compatible with the exercise of detailed control , and so of full sovereignty , by the Assembly . |
| 3 | He 's a sadistic man — he must have taken great pleasure in working over Joe last night . " |
| 4 | In 1588 , Sir John Popham was Attorney General and could have brought great influence to bear . |
| 5 | But who 'd have expected great lasagna ? |
| 6 | This may have held great promise in its early years but it soon became divided and then fragmented , due largely , if not wholly to the same age-old misconception whereby the basis of the religion is the assumption of the existence of a completely undefined ‘ god ’ , in this case the ancient ‘ god ’ of the Jews . |
| 7 | Surrealist theory may have set great store by sexual experience with women , but it made virtually no provision for the female experience per see , and so it was up to women artists to reinvent their own forms of femininity . |
| 8 | While later law , for example , once familiar with trusts may have practised great toleration , if we look back to the origins of Roman trusts and their tentative beginnings with the rise of a consular jurisdiction , it does not seem at all plausible that absolutely any expression or gesture would immediately have been accepted . |
| 9 | Small isolated communities would have been extremely vulnerable if crops failed and , in such circumstances , alliances with neighbouring groups would have assumed great importance when food was required in emergencies . |
| 10 | Assessment in Catholic Religious Education would have to take great care against falling into the trap of only aiming to develop that which readily lends itself to measurement . |
| 11 | Neither Long not Chamberlain would have made great changes in the party , and the election of either would not have seemed to signify a great change . |
| 12 | I do n't know though , it would have made great television . |
| 13 | Had he persevered in that with which he was occupied , he would have produced great works in ilm at which the learned would have stood in awe " ; while Hocazade himself , in a comment on his own career overheard by Taskopruzade 's father , acknowledges Seyyid Serif to be his master but goes on to say : " He had a true zeal [ for with which neither ill-health nor offices alien [ to interfered . |
| 14 | Normally she would have derived great satisfaction from the image , and even greater satisfaction from the prospect of spending the night amid the pulsating excitement of Monaco at night , but right now she was finding it hard to work up even the tiniest bit of enthusiasm . |
| 15 | She would have had great difficulty establishing herself , but as it is she has sold her pottery successfully through shows and through galleries . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | At thirty-one , he remarks to Louise — a parenthesis to a hypothesis — that if he had ever had a son , he would have taken great pleasure in procuring women for him . |
| 20 | Kold will have taken great encouragement from last weekend 's results at Wembley when his Danish players won two of the five titles , as there was undoubtedly some concern in European badminton after the Asians completely dominated the Barcelona finals . |