Example sentences of "to have [vb pp] a great [noun] " 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 | Only three days and they seemed to have travelled a great distance . |
| 3 | Feargal seems to have said a great deal . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This seemed to him , and to me , to have become a great issue of conscience . |
| 8 | It was something he seemed to have spent a great deal of his life wondering . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | He was angry with the Colonel , who seemed to have taken a great deal upon himself . |
| 11 | At a time when governments seemed to have learnt a great deal about economic management they found it increasingly difficult to practise it . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |