Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , they 've got great stories like olden times . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ They 've got great stadiums , good rugby organisations and very astute administrators from both a corporate and organisations point of view . |
| 3 | John Gorman says … he 's happy but in some ways disappointed that they 've had to wait so long for a win … it 's been hard week after week … but they 've shown great character and the fans have been very supportive |
| 4 | At breakfast together Fisher exploded and attacked the Church Union and all that it stood for and said that they had done great harm and ought to apologize . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Their names were taken from Amal 's brother , but by the time they were collected and asked to appear before the police for statements they had taken great pains to prepare their story . |
| 7 | In the early years of the republic these were factors of no great consequence , but they have assumed great importance since the movement of the United States on to the world stage in the twentieth century . |
| 8 | They have taken great pains to eliminate explanations based on freak signals from side walls , or from inanimate objects ( although we can not entirely discount such hypotheses until we have specifically investigated them ) . |
| 9 | They have set great store by congregational singing , preferably with organ accompaniment , and donated these instruments to schools and other institutions . |
| 10 | Bugs and men who study them have inspired great literature and pages and pages of nonsense But even the finest fiction has rarely improved on real life |