Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [art] great " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being so far advanced in this objective , even before the evening started , it must have come as a great surprise when the meeting was jolted into controversy by an unexpected suggestion from Councillor B. Watts . |
| 2 | The Mid-Ulster dialects may therefore have preserved to a great extent an older general English vowel pattern , and they may help us to project knowledge of the present on the past . |
| 3 | In other words , the stress forces of the Earth , in particular stresses brought about by severe changes in climate , and the changing chemical nature of the surface , may have contributed to the great expansion , and occasional contraction , of species within narrow phyla that evolved from the recognizable solid life in the oceans ( oceanic life started , probably , in the Algonkian period , somewhere between 670 million and 600 million years ago ) . |
| 4 | Originally this state must have led to a great deal of contradictory and ambivalent behaviour , with the bird being tugged in opposite directions by its opposing moods . |
| 5 | If this percentage potential could be considered to hold true outside the USA , we would certainly have to ask of the great majority of congregations , ‘ What has happened to your ten per cent ? ’ |