Example sentences of "it had great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was nothing really radical in terms of modern design — even apart from Malcolm having adapted it from a picture — but it had great presence . |
| 2 | The LMSR Company was the biggest operator of commercial road vehicles in the country , and because of this , and the fact that it built all its own stock of horse-drawn vehicles and designed and built all the bodies to its own designs on various motor chassis , it had great influence on the development of commercial vehicles in Great Britain from the early 1920s until around 1940 . |
| 3 | But it had great difficulty in finding the necessary funds for this purpose , and , partly for this reason and partly because of sheer bureaucratic inefficiency , the payment of the subsidies was always much delayed . |
| 4 | Under the auspices of Scottish/Canadian editor Andy Gray , the paper was faced with a dilemma and one that it had great difficulty resolving , namely how a paper still steeped in show business traditions could come to terms with a new music that was deliberately and defiantly anti-commerciality and the supposed ‘ circus ’ of the pop world . |
| 5 | It was bloated and heavy , and the men gathered on the deck of the boat to receive it had great difficulty lifting it out of the water . |
| 6 | It had greater success in the year 1912 which followed , but the writing was on the wall . |
| 7 | The view that the East Ropery Banks site might be considered for ‘ high value ’ housing in order to provide potential consumers for the shopping centre had first been expressed in the Poulson Report of 1965 , but it had greater saliency by 1971 because the authority was already dealing with its second property company ( Town and City ) and it was clear that market conditions made the redevelopment of North Shields centre a highly marginal project . |