Example sentences of "had considerable [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Including staff in the restrictions , rules , cash limits etc to allow them to consider all possible permutations has had considerable benefits . |
| 2 | It has had considerable benefits , it 's had one or two drawbacks and er I think the biggest lesson that we have probably learned so far from the Eurofighter programme , is that we have to be very careful when we make work sharing agreements in future , that er we do n't try to drive the work sharing requirement down to too low a level . |
| 3 | The prevention of fire in hospital has had considerable publicity recently via the mass media and patients are more aware of the potential danger , probably partly because in the UK public buildings have been obliged by law to install smoke doors in public corridors — and they can not escape one 's notice ! |
| 4 | The initial impetus came from the Managing Director of one of the largest of the Harris Tweed manufacturers — the son of a crofter and himself a fisherman in his early days The Association was , however , given its distinctive shape and its constitution by the first chairman , Rev. Ian Carmichael , a Gaelic-speaker from Lismore who was a minister in Stornoway at the time , and who had had considerable experience of welfare work in industry , and had been for some years vice convener of one of the largest local authorities in Scotland . |
| 5 | The movement has therefore had considerable experience of educational provision in exile . |
| 6 | The school has already had considerable experience of managing its own budgets via the Lincolnshire scheme of delegation . |
| 7 | The managers of nursing agencies have often had considerable experience in assisting nurses back into practice after a career break , and can be extremely helpful and conscientious in responding to any doubts and queries you may have . |
| 8 | is a qualified chartered accountant and has had considerable experience in a number of companies . |
| 9 | Fortunately , City and Guilds has had considerable experience in this area which will be invaluable in ensuring that the NVQs which it awards represent a national standard of competence , wherever they are gained . |
| 10 | We work in the Health arena , you yourself have had considerable experience , and you referred to the changing roles between public and private agencies , and you mentioned trusts and so on in the health arena , I just wondered whether you 'd like to explore with us a little , your own personal thinking about the nature of these changing roles , and perhaps a little bit of crystal ball gazing ahead , |
| 11 | The defence advocate , Herbert Kerrigan , QC , said his client , a drug addict , had had considerable difficulties with heroin . |
| 12 | Had the war ended with the collapse of Madrid in November 1936 , the Nationalists would have had considerable difficulty in improvising the governmental and administrative apparatus necessary to sustain a new regime . |
| 13 | We have had considerable difficulty in the current year , in meeting the demand upon children 's services , and we have met those difficulties , in no small part , from the use of carry forwards within the year , and before you come to looking at reductions in services on the salmon papers , the children 's service is going to , and in fact is doing a redirection of its funding to ensure that it stays within its base budget in future years . |
| 14 | ( b ) Assuming the mortgage debt In the past practitioners have had considerable difficulty where the transferee wife took over property subject to a mortgage liability . |
| 15 | This has been achieved despite direct competition for the German Government Bond contract from the recently created Deutsche Terminbörse ( DTB ) in Frankfurt , which has had considerable support from the German financial community . |
| 16 | Apart from small orders , usually of nuns , set up by local bishops for local needs , religious orders have always had considerable independence from the bishops . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , historically , local authorities have had considerable independence , more at some times than others ( Foster et al . , |
| 18 | The House has already had considerable opportunity to discuss our proposals . |
| 19 | The school was Summerhill , run by A. S. Neill , whose revolutionary views on education have since had considerable influence on modern teaching methods . |
| 20 | The reality , however , is that the Institute has had considerable influence in knocking the rough edges off legislation and practice . |
| 21 | The Baroness has had considerable influence on the decor ; for example , she insisted on marble rather than wooden floors , and pink walls . |
| 22 | It will be argued that such factors may have had considerable influence on what are widely believed to have been exclusively ‘ political ’ decisions . |
| 23 | For example , Roman Jakobson and his Prague school colleague René Wellek have had considerable influence on literary studies through their teaching and work in the United States for a number of decades , and , although it carried no explicit theoretical creed , René Wellek 's Theory of Literature ( co-authored with Austin Warren and first published in 1949 ) was for many years the only widely available explicitly theoretical account of literary studies for Anglo-Saxon students of literature . |
| 24 | Papers published in other journals which have no such limitation may contain many more references , some of which will have had considerable influence on the authors , and others whose influence is slight . |
| 25 | His government has had considerable success in winning over guerrilla field commanders and turning them into semi-autonomous militias with lavish handouts of money and arms . |
| 26 | Dr Banda 's approach has had considerable success . |
| 27 | Yet our 4 × 400 metres relay teams have had considerable success . |
| 28 | While Caribbean governments are trying to find ways of fostering local culture at a regional level , groups working at the grassroots level have had considerable success in developing self-supporting communication activities . |
| 29 | Although new medical schools like McMaster in Canada and Maastricht in the Netherlands have had considerable success ( in terms of staff and student satisfaction ) with courses based on self directed , problem based learning , these models may be dismissed as difficult to implement in an existing course . |
| 30 | He hunted , mostly with peregrines , on the Cairnmore estate , including the Oa , Ballivicar , Glenmachrie , Leorin and Kilbride , and would appear to have had considerable success . |