Example sentences of "would have [verb] great [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But as the Community moved towards the goal of political union the European Parliament would have to give greater co-legislating powers to the Council of Ministers . |
| 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 | He would have preferred greater child provision , too . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The feasible political choices confronting Labour could doubtless have been handled in a way which would have produced greater benefit for working people , and lost Labour less active support . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She would have had great difficulty establishing herself , but as it is she has sold her pottery successfully through shows and through galleries . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A Gallup survey for The Daily Telegraph suggests that if he had been leader , the party would have had greater success last Thursday . |
| 15 | One would have had greater confidence if the selection were from a longer list nominated by other bodies unconnected with the government of the day . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | To succeed , the book would have required greater impartiality , a more critical appraisal of the work described and more attention to the balance between topics . |