Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can well comprehend your daughter 's being upset but , I assure you , I would have given a great deal to prevent it . |
| 2 | The Consul General would have given a great deal to stop this exchange going any further but he could hardly say anything without worsening the situation for himself . |
| 3 | He would have given a great deal to have sounded less incredulous . |
| 4 | Pumfrey would have given a great deal to know . |
| 5 | Lost in the malai chain of command , shuffled round from captor to captor , I would not have given a great deal for my chances . |
| 6 | This left him an enormous amount of scope for demonstrating the kind of narrative energy that most English fiction-writers would have given a great deal to acquire . |
| 7 | Erm , that that that that is a point where the discovery in itself , must have given a great deal of pleasure to a a er a number of people who 've been involved in the , in the research . |
| 8 | I am afraid I believe a caution would have come a great deal more quickly . |
| 9 | In some circumstances this remained true even in straightforward administrative interactions where strings of questions about what was going to happen next sometimes led to complicated and unproductive guessing games , and where a simple clear statement would have saved a great deal of time . |
| 10 | ‘ I would have done a great deal more , Hilary , ’ he told her seriously . |
| 11 | King Alfred 's successes may well have owed a great deal to his predecessors , but in the construction of his network of defensive fortresses we see an ability to command similar to Offa 's , and perpetuated by his son Edward the Elder and grandson Æthelstan , who conquered all England for the West Saxon dynasty . |
| 12 | He might have met a great hero , or the cunningest of thieves , or some wise and great sage . |
| 13 | Here you would have seen a great attraction and opportunities to do well in expanding industries . |
| 14 | ‘ I would have made a great secretary , I love organising things . |
| 15 | Piggy might have been able to save the boys ; as with his sensible , mature attitude resulting from the trauma caused by his parents ' death , he could have made a great impact on the boys . |
| 16 | If he approaches the fun level achieved by Gary , they he will have had a great year . |
| 17 | All the same , he should have thought a great deal more about what lay behind the exhibits . |
| 18 | He and Mother must have thought a great deal of the place to go to that expense at a time when money was so short . |
| 19 | However , Gibson had no experience on the Mossie and would have benefited a great deal from a few hours with the PFF Mossie Unit at Warboys — perhaps a couple of low-level bombing attacks on our bombing range . |
| 20 | But whatever those proposals may be , schools now will have the opportunity of opting out , and I think it 's a fair guess that if the opting out legislation had been in place when comprehensive education was imposed upon this county in 1964 , you would probably have found a great number of the grammar schools would have opted out , using the legislation , and I have no doubt whatsoever that in every single one of those cases you would have had a large majority of parents in support of that . |
| 21 | ‘ But without the special cover I 'd have had to pursue that claim on my own and it would have cost a great deal more . |
| 22 | Such an outcome would have caused a great deal of trouble for the council which could have been largely avoided if the resolution had been directly challenged soon after it was made under Ord. 53 . |
| 23 | The operation would at best have caused a great deal of pain , even if all those concerned had given proof of great foresight and clarity of mind ; in the absence of both , it became a source of enormous waste and disappointments ’ ( Karol : 1971 , p. 225 ) . |
| 24 | Achieving this independence will often have taken many years and will certainly have involved a great deal of effort . |
| 25 | Rodrigo must have learned a great deal from these intelligent , cultured people . |
| 26 | The move of Kenneth MacAlpin 's capital to Scone must have meant a great deal more physical comfort for kings and their retainers after the rocks and raw rain of Argyll , but the heads wearing the crown were offered little chance of lying easy . |
| 27 | But this would have left a great swath of territory to the west in Republican control . |
| 28 | He could n't have bled a great deal , perhaps a cupful all told . |
| 29 | If you have developed the skills for effective study from your course , then you will have achieved a great deal . |
| 30 | Leeds worked hard to use the sources to provide a chronology of the development of brooch types ( 1933 ) and the extremely dubious assumptions he made have coloured a great deal of thinking to this day . |