Example sentences of "have a great [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Yet , embittered pigeons have a great tendency to come home to roost at a later date , wreaking merry havoc as they zoom in on perceived injustices and ensure that all and sundry realise the iniquities of their previous employer .
2 It is an apt example for people in the government machine who , according to Roith , have a great part to play in sowing the seeds of industrial success .
3 The Elves still have a great part to play before the final act of their long drama is played out .
4 The provincial presses , though they may lag behind their metropolitan brothers in equipment and technique , have a great story to tell .
5 I feel the media have a great responsibility to inform the public in ways they can understand , how great the challenge is becoming and the need to make changes before it is too late .
6 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 .
7 Commodores , members , I have a great announcement to make , there have been no other nominations for President of the Association .
8 Women have a great task to accomplish — something along the lines of what one of our revolutionary leaders once termed " the revolution within the revolution " .
9 Those who sell dogs in the first place have a great deal to answer for when it comes to explaining why the human-dog relationship is so often a disastrous mismatch .
10 ‘ Spencer Grenfell , you have a great deal to answer for , ’ Emily said bitterly .
11 ‘ Mr Burns , you have a great deal to answer for , ’ she muttered savagely , hauling the insubstantial scrap of ribbon and lace that claimed to be a nightdress over her head and reaching instead for jeans and a sweatshirt .
12 ‘ I have a great deal to do , ’ she said in a dismissively grown-up voice .
13 I have a great deal to do .
14 I have a great deal to do . ’
15 I have a great deal to say .
16 ‘ We have a great deal to say .
17 I mean we 're all , I 'm sure , basically family with what Darwin 's theory of evolution is , and I do n't really want to labour you by reminding you of it , but I think it 's important to appreciate first of all what his problem was erm and I think that it 's fair to say that for Darwin the problem was that as a naturalist he was aware of the fact that animals and plants are adapted to a quite extraordinary degree to their particular ways of life , and indeed many of his books on orchids and earthworms and so on have a great deal to say about the details of these adaptations .
18 Yet ( while there are more lifers than there used to be ) most of them have a great deal to lose .
19 Now it seems to me that the Churches have a great deal to gain from this method of selling their message .
20 Squeeze packs therefore have a great deal to commend them but where quantities of wash water requiring dosing are high the amount of detergent thus available is too low .
21 When you come to detailed programme planning , you need variety and balance and , if you have a great deal to get through and a concentrated message to communicate , you still have to break it up and give people a chance to relax their brains as well as their bodies .
22 I imagine you have a great deal to keep you awake at night . ’
23 Writers such as C. P. Taylor , David Halliwell , Peter Nicols , Caryl Churchill and Louise Page have a great deal to offer .
24 RESOURCES : When it comes to trade , Banks have a great deal to offer .
25 I 'm with the Scottish Ballet , and I think the royal family have a great deal to offer all of us , through the arts .
26 It seems that if we as adults have the courage to talk openly and honestly to children then we have a great deal to learn from them , given their openness and ability to describe simply matters of life and death with great dignity and inbuilt wisdom .
27 17.27 In the primary school , children have a great deal to learn about both spelling and handwriting .
28 It seems to me that , in this respect , we have a great deal to learn from the best American schools .
29 We recommend the ESSE/L Project as a most valuable experience for those involved , as an example of good practice in educational innovation and the promotion of curricular change , and as a model from which other initiatives have a great deal to learn .
30 The fact is that we still have a great deal to learn about the skills that animals use to find their way around their own home ranges and to travel the globe .
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