Example sentences of "have had great " in BNC.

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1 Developing the diet has had great scientific spin-offs .
2 Whether Marx held such a view or not has had great importance for later Marxist polemics , and we shall return to this question .
3 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 .
4 It is the latter development that has had great influence on the creation of the commercial AI industry .
5 ‘ Paul 's album has had great reviews , some of which have said it 's his best-ever album .
6 The complicated postures are such as no freestanding statue of the time could show , and the sculptor has had great difficulties .
7 Above : the RYA Junior Windsurfing Scheme has had great success in getting young people involved .
8 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 .
9 We talked it through and agreed we 'd had great years together and why should n't we get back together again .
10 He 'd had great hopes of that chain .
11 She would have had great difficulty establishing herself , but as it is she has sold her pottery successfully through shows and through galleries .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 The EDC concept was perhaps too idealistic to have had great hopes of concrete achievement , and in its implications for European integration perhaps something of a paradox .
16 In Opposition we had had great fun pursuing Bill Rodgers on the standard of the baked beans and the quality of the fried cod .
17 Despite her indulgence of him , she had kept him very much tied to her apron strings and had had great difficulty in relinquishing him to a wife .
18 She also wanted to put an end to any sexual intercourse with her husband , though formerly both he and she had had great enjoyment from it .
19 When Henry VIII dismissed three of these gentlemen and various other household officials in 1519 , the Venetian ambassador commented that they had had great authority and had been the ‘ very soul ’ of the King .
20 Not that Lily had had great hopes , so early on , of winning over Robert 's daughter .
21 ‘ When we visited the Ukraine , we had had great difficulty in explaining what a piper looks and sounds like , ’ said Peter .
22 Several touring sides are having to play each other because there is no Cornish opposition to play , and we 've had great difficulty in finding referees .
23 ‘ I 've had doubts that I could play at this level but I 've had great support from everyone . ’
24 I 've had great fun and great service from the package and used it for designing several garments for both hand and machine knitting .
25 He says we 've had great weather … great crowds and great races .
26 Today we 've had great racing again and first we 're going to have a look again at the world away from the races .
27 The major exception to this , the palace shops , have had great success .
28 Our young men were quick-tempered , and i have had great trouble in keeping them from doing rash things .
29 Many men buffeted by fortune will reach retirement prematurely ; some have had great success to be followed by even greater failure .
30 Some people have had great pleasure and good practice from the rhythm of songs which were familiar before losing their hearing — such old friends as ‘ Auld Lang Syne ’ , ‘ God Save the Queen ’ and the Wedding March .
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