Example sentences of "have great sympathy " in BNC.

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1 The writer has great sympathy for hauliers confronting the intricacies of the tachograph legislation .
2 Professor Hoskins saw little in the modern development of the English landscape that filled him with pleasure and one has great sympathy for his feelings .
3 I think parental anxieties are something with which one must have great sympathy because very often the anxiety is not so much an anxiety about the child , it 's an anxiety about the parent .
4 I think parental anxieties are something with which one must have great sympathy because very often the anxiety is not so much an anxiety about the child , it 's an anxiety about the parent .
5 As befitted a man who had been an assistant professional in his youth he had great sympathy for those afflicted by golf mania .
6 Mr Lewis said they had great sympathy for the flood victims .
7 While I have great sympathy for the doctors of twenty years or more ago who did not realise the addictive effect of such tablets when they began to prescribe them , I do not feel equal sympathy for those doctors ( fortunately their number is growing less ) who still hand out similar prescriptions to their patients and then fail to monitor their progress or to help them give up the medication as soon as possible .
8 I have great sympathy with Linford ; what they are doing to him is totally disgraceful . ’
9 Editor , — I have great sympathy for Duncan M Williams .
10 Now I 'm lucky , I have four children no problems as such , and I have great sympathy for anyone who goes through all this to have a child !
11 I have great sympathy with every point that my hon. Friend made .
12 While I was opposed to that operation , I have the highest respect for our armed forces personnel , and — for rather quaint reasons — I have great sympathy and respect for members of the Royal Military Police .
13 I have great sympathy with the premise on which the hon. Gentleman bases his question , but such matters are best determined by individual employers and their work forces and not by the imposition of general blanket rules that may not be appropriate to individual countries or companies .
14 May I say , as every other hon. Member would wish to say , that we condemn that act of violence — indeed , that act of war , for that is what it was — and have great sympathy with the victims ?
15 I have great sympathy with the needs of village schools but at the end ofg the day we have to consider the needs of the children and I have no doubt in my mind that trying to open a school in Brockweir is simply not on for the children .
16 I have great sympathy for the police .
17 But I do understand the real awfulness of physical and emotional pain and I have great sympathy with anyone who is going through it .
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