Example sentences of "they have a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only do they have a greater opportunity to commit their favoured types of crimes , but they have the capacity to influence which of their behaviours will be regarded as corporate crimes in the first place . |
| 2 | Books too — they 've a great lot of books . ’ |
| 3 | They had a great influence on me . |
| 4 | They had a great sense of humour … |
| 5 | He they knew that they had a great sense of the weather themselves after being out in it . |
| 6 | As professional soldiers they had a great reputation for ruthlessness both in battle and in ravaging the countryside . |
| 7 | He was an implacable enemy of Ted 's , from the 1 950S when Ted had been Chief Whip , and they had a great row . |
| 8 | They had a great passion for women , a great passion for each other , a great passion for music and trains . |
| 9 | So the women got Anna to open her door and the prince was pushed forward and asked her pardon and promised never to see the French girl again and they had a great drama and Anna consented to be reconciled . |
| 10 | The children say they had a great time , eating sweets and with a pirate on board their bus . |
| 11 | Well erm I think so , I mean they had a great side under Bill Beaumont 's leadership and it 's been promising for a couple of years with England , and today they actually came through with the goods erm a bit of an anti-climax last year at erm at Murrayfield . |
| 12 | Max Jacob and Modigliani were always assumed to be good friends ; they had a great deal in common . |
| 13 | There is not much evidence of a determined drive by the Communists to control NICRA and even less that they had a great deal of influence . |
| 14 | Thus , older workers were more than twice as likely as those under 40 to say that they had a great deal of respect for the top management at the firm ( 72 per cent ) . |
| 15 | When she arrived at the beginning of July , they had a great deal to talk about . |
| 16 | They had a great deal of trouble |
| 17 | Both family and part-time farmers felt that with the farm they had a greater degree of control over their future . |
| 18 | They had a greater number of internal attributions for negative disaster related events . |
| 19 | As one experienced observer of the trade put it , ‘ The companies which suitable candidates work for consider that they have a greater need of their executives ’ services nowadays than the trade at large has . ’ |
| 20 | They have a greater host waiting . |
| 21 | Together , these studies suggest that although individuals with the less active form of ALDH and more active forms of ADH are less likely to become alcoholic , they have a greater risk of developing alcoholic liver disease if they do drink than people with the normal form of ALDH and less active forms of ADH . |
| 22 | ‘ They have a great technique , but it 's all too smooth and almost jazz-like ; they might as well be performing in a Holiday Inn lounge or something ! |
| 23 | Villa are at White Hart Lane this afternoon with Livermore saying : ‘ We have watched them closely and think they have a great chance of winning the League . |
| 24 | Following the success of Tracy Edwards and her Maiden crew in the Whitbread Round the World Race , women involved in yachting are realising that they have a great chance to attain their sailing goals . |
| 25 | ‘ In Byrne , Sunderland have a player who could supply that sort of brilliance and they have a great Cup tradition , too . |
| 26 | on the right there , and they have a great rack full of plants standing there . |
| 27 | A comparison of the three Gospels shows not only that they have a great deal in common but also that , in many cases , the wording of individual stories is either identical or very similar ( for example , compare Mark 2:3–12 ; Matt. |
| 28 | These are all approaches which have been around for some time — in the case of the perennial philosophy a very long time — and while , no doubt , they have a great deal to contribute , it is surely probable that the impulse for any paradigm shift will come from an unseen direction . |
| 29 | Whether they be Asian African or European , they have a great deal more in common than most of their respective citizens would have with one another . |
| 30 | They have a great deal of love and affection for the small stores , and the Minister will go down in history as the woman who wrecked them . |