Example sentences of "would have [verb] great [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But who 'd have expected great lasagna ?
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 I do n't know though , it would have made great television .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 She would have had great difficulty establishing herself , but as it is she has sold her pottery successfully through shows and through galleries .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
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