Example sentences of "to have [verb] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Mary Leapor appears to have given a great deal of thought to Pope 's ‘ Epistle to a Lady ’ .
2 Having won the Cabinet 's acceptance ofthe economic strategy , she has been more concerned with implementation and this appears to have given a greater role to her Policy Unit , members of ‘ think tanks ’ , and ad hoc groups of officials , advisers , and ministers .
3 Only three days and they seemed to have travelled a great distance .
4 The visitors ' early grip in midfield assured a testing time of it for the home defence , and they ought to have secured a greater half-time advantage than that supplied them by Mixu Paatelainen 's glorious second-minute header .
5 Those communities which did not receive franchises seem to have suffered a greater degree of extortion , as their lords strove to recover some of the profits they were losing elsewhere .
6 Feargal seems to have said a great deal .
7 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 ) .
8 The Gothic , a more formidable opponent , might have been expected to have had a greater impact on the depiction of fictional living space .
9 This is likely to have had a great influence on the goals and , in particular , the mission statement of the organisation which were discussed in Section 2.2 .
10 He continued to hope that he and the king could work together and , strangely enough , he seems to have had a great deal of personal sympathy with the king .
11 This seemed to him , and to me , to have become a great issue of conscience .
12 It was something he seemed to have spent a great deal of his life wondering .
13 On the other hand , she comforted herself , the modern Dane , from what she had read and the little she had seen , appeared not to have inherited a great deal from his pillaging ancestors !
14 He was angry with the Colonel , who seemed to have taken a great deal upon himself .
15 At a time when governments seemed to have learnt a great deal about economic management they found it increasingly difficult to practise it .
16 Although upright and looking much younger than her years , she seemed to have changed a great deal from when I had seen her last , and she wore a slightly dazed expression ( as well she might , I told myself , considering her age and the difficulty of her situation ) .
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