Example sentences of "have made a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This work has made a great contribution to our understanding of the subject , although the structural diversity of port wine stains confounds the best attempts at mathematical modelling and there is no substitute for good clinical assessments and comparisons of different laser systems . |
| 2 | He has made a great contribution to anchoring the art of architecture to real life , real science and real modernity … |
| 3 | Your children will inherit a world in which Basil 's influence has made a great contribution . |
| 4 | He has made a great number of friends here who wish him the best of luck , and hope he plans to make frequent visits back here . |
| 5 | Starting with Camco , the newly appointed Chief Executive er , has been very , very active and has made a great impact already . |
| 6 | But moving house has made a great difference for me . |
| 7 | Alice has made a great difference . |
| 8 | She has made a great difference to me , she was wonderful . |
| 9 | The sofa bed or studio couch has made a great difference to one-room living . |
| 10 | Luckily in all three of the situations outlined above , the carers have eventually discovered that support for them is available and this has made a great deal of difference to their lives . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Michael , when he was at s When he was at school , he won a scholarship to university , when he got to the university he said as if he 'd made a great discovery . |
| 13 | I think er , we need to er , look at this issue of carers far more rigorously , and I 'm very sad that the government , having made a great play about back to basics and er , encouraging family values , erm , are not in fact prepared er , to do something to er , alleviate unemployment by encouraging employers to make adequate provision to ensure that people with dependants can actually work . |
| 14 | ‘ I would have made a great secretary , I love organising things . |
| 15 | Piggy might have been able to save the boys ; as with his sensible , mature attitude resulting from the trauma caused by his parents ' death , he could have made a great impact on the boys . |
| 16 | In summary then , the action project appears not to have made a great deal of difference to people 's receipt of other services , except that it has probably kept some sufferers away from day care and has increased home help hours for its own clients ( and probably allayed the need for home help among other clients ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Anne — Miss Miggs , ’ began Christine breathlessly , ‘ we 've made a great discovery ! |
| 18 | but I mean other than that , I , I , I 'd like to be dead cautious about that , I , I still think it 's early days , I know we 've made a great success , but it 's early days . |
| 19 | They 've made a great start , but five shots after one round is nothing in this tournament . ’ |
| 20 | I 've made a great deal of progress , as you can see . ’ |
| 21 | He brings with him his radio and prepares for — his — match with Lierse listening to BBC hoping for Leeds goals … and after the Wembley match he went straigth to Batty for changing shirts — i think he said that for the couple of last minutes that was the main thing — not that he had made a great goal or Norway getting a draw . |
| 22 | He had made a great reputation in Berlin between the wars . |
| 23 | Long before we arrived , Herr Wendling had made a great reputation for him and has now introduced him to all his friends . |
| 24 | The secondary teachers ' unions , particularly the Joint Four , had made a great outcry about the exodus of the grammar school teachers from the profession . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I had a sudden flash of memory of one of the most remarkable women I had ever met — Sister Kenny , a woman who had made a great impact on me because of Clare . |
| 27 | The Cuban director of immigration had made a great deal of money from previous boatloads of Jews ; the President of Cuba had not made enough money from them . |
| 28 | Pendle Consultants Ltd , the Yorkshire-based training and recruitment specialists , have made a great success of recruiting inexperienced staff after putting them through an unorthodox interview procedure , designed to reveal personal strengths and weaknesses of potential sales personnel , rather than stressing their previous experience . |
| 29 | The Mill Hill priests who started Sasse in 1939 have made a great contribution to the national life of this young African country . |
| 30 | Boldon , on the other hand , have made a great start with three successive wins . |