Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] great [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He would have made a great dramatic actor .
2 The factory workshop has become what Mao would have called a Great Political School .
3 By that time , of course , he would already have effected a great many ministerial and policy changes , but there would still have been sufficient sense of novelty about everything he touched to have ensured his eventual victory at the polls .
4 Leaving a dozen men under Ollokot to besiege Gibbon , Joseph led his people south at noon , hauling the wounded on travois and noting sadly : ‘ The Nez Perce never make war on women and children ; we could have killed a great many women and children while the war lasted , but we would feel ashamed to do so cowardly an act . ’
5 I 'm afraid it must have upset a great many people at Thrush Green during the past hour . ’
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