Example sentences of "they have great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 've great coal fires , and bands come in , and crowds and crowds of solid drinkers , you could stand a spoon up in the fug . |
| 2 | erm They had great services were held in Christchurch Cathedral , and the King would have looked out from the Deans House , and this is the view of Tom Quad , a modern view , of course , of how you can look out onto the Great Quad of Christchurch , but of course it was n't like that . |
| 3 | And all the guys at the back the T T S put my name down for it because they had great hilarity |
| 4 | In fact , they had great difficulty in producing a satisfactory list of categories , and had to revise it as work progressed . |
| 5 | Although the teachers were aware of this ‘ weapon ’ they had great difficulty in finding anything to attack it with . |
| 6 | But we were told recently by a delegation from the french Senate , studying British methods of scrutiny of Community legislation , that they had great difficulty in obtaining copies of Commission legislative proposals and that it had been necessary for them to establish an office in Brussels to ensure a reliable supply . |
| 7 | They had great fun with the bad . |
| 8 | Depicting the bad — especially the devils they had great fun with . |
| 9 | Mr Lewis said they had great sympathy for the flood victims . |
| 10 | Any National Labour figure ( they had great scarcity value ) was absolutely safe in his office . |
| 11 | Some did walk on their own , but they had great confidence . |
| 12 | He believed that they had greater capacity to do so than previous generations and hence would be less in need of support from the state when they reached old-age — there was therefore no need to establish complex insurance machinery . |
| 13 | The differences suggest that those in the non-manual occupational groups were more likely to choose early retirement than skilled manual workers , presumably because they had greater resources and hence more freedom of choice . |
| 14 | Some of the professionals believed that they had greater patience than their able-bodied colleagues , and often pointed out that their patients and clients had greater confidence in them and were more likely to take their advice . |
| 15 | Moreover , as the police and the army had no place in the formal structure of government , they had greater autonomy than in ostensibly centralized states . |
| 16 | On the whole , however , they had greater hopes of Russia than of Austria . |
| 17 | That could , that needs to be maintained , it could also be extended , though of course they have great difficulties because of er their , their own financial restrictions , but we also , I think as a community , need to think about who these homeless people are , and , and not to regard them as some kind of alien population , but to realise that there are , they are our own neighbours , they are our own families that are in this predicament , and that collectively we need to join together and actually make demands on central government and locally to try and do something about it . |
| 18 | They have great experience and much to tell us . |
| 19 | But Monie knows that the loss of Miles and Gregory will be even harder to make up , even though they have great faith in new scrum half signing Martin Crompton . |
| 20 | Sensitive to both heat and cold or open air , thus they have great difficulty in getting comfortable . |
| 21 | The main problem for instrumental Marxist accounts is that they have great difficulty in explaining the eclecticism and indeterminacy of events in the world under a single reductionist or economist explanation which relates all actions by the state to the desires and power capabilities of a ruling class based on economic ownership . |
| 22 | If this inversion is only 100–300 metres deep , tall industrial stacks may release their emissions above the inversion , or the emissions may penetrate the inversion because they have great buoyancy due to high temperatures and fast exit velocities . |
| 23 | The RAF 's aircraft replacement programmes tend to be more expensive than warship construction , but they have greater flexibility since the number of aircraft ordered in any one year can be varied without throwing the Air Department 's costings off balance . |
| 24 | Conversely , the Profitboss accepts that they have greater skills in packing , driving and cleaning than him . |
| 25 | Obviously people who are merely going through a bad patch ( anxiety state ) are easier to assist in the process of change , because they have greater resources , than individuals who have always been anxious ( anxiety trait ) . |
| 26 | ‘ They have greater confidence , ’ Hamilton-Phillips says , ‘ so they move forward faster . |
| 27 | Further , they have greater opportunities to develop their minds and personalities ( the atmosphere of a university campus is more stimulating than that of an assembly line ) , and greater autonomy in deciding how they will organise their work and leisure time . |
| 28 | Because employers can increase their profits when they have greater control over the labour process it has been suggested that in the USA internal ‘ job ladders ’ of promotion and wage benefits were developed by managements within some large firms as a deliberate control strategy to counter unionism and increase the dependence of workers on their companies . |
| 29 | I have concentrated on the higher forms of life , not only because they are easy to observe but also to some extent because they have greater meaning for our own species . |