Example sentences of "had [verb] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The governors had placed great trust in him over the period of ten years ‘ during one of which it pleased its liberal Grand Visitor to take me with him to Ireland ’ . |
| 2 | Firstly , due to the low usage figures found by the programme monitors in Phase 1 villages ( described in Chapter 5 ) , the Oral Replacement Workers had placed greater emphasis during Phase 2 on telling the village people about LGS at the expense of telling them about the dangers of adding too much salt to the solution . |
| 3 | Since the early 1970s Soviet leaders had placed greater emphasis on the role of the Soviet navy as an instrument to deter Western intervention in the affairs of non-aligned and pro-Soviet countries . |
| 4 | Spiritualism had come from America , and had aroused great excitement there . |
| 5 | When convocation met in December 1373 even the prelates were alienated from the crown , or at least from Gaunt and those who carried on the government in the king 's name : the attempt to levy an unprecedented tax of £50,000 in 1371 had aroused great resentment , aggravated in the next year when , in an effort to speed its collection , all the bishops of the southern province had their temporalities seized . |
| 6 | He subsequently claimed that the Soviet Union had received great support during these meetings for its readiness to take part ‘ in multilateral talks among all states which use the waters of the Indian Ocean with a view to formulating guarantees of the safety of maritime lines of communication , including the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz , as well as guarantees of the littoral states ’ sovereignty over their natural resources ’ . |
| 7 | It had given great anxiety to him and his collagues on the bench . |
| 8 | It had given great anxiety to him and his collagues on the bench . |
| 9 | The suggestion that an astronomical innovation might require a new physics was subversive of a hierarchy in which physics had enjoyed greater prestige than astronomy . |
| 10 | It was an unsubtle and false logic , but one which was effective when presented without alternatives to a populace which had endured great hardship for a prolonged period . |
| 11 | At breakfast together Fisher exploded and attacked the Church Union and all that it stood for and said that they had done great harm and ought to apologize . |
| 12 | The women had made great play with brooms and buckets , sweeping the pavement around the policeman 's feet till he was forced to jump over them to avoid being floored . |
| 13 | Already it had made great play of how it had saved certain famous churches from its own bulldozers by moving them out of the path of destruction . |
| 14 | She had made great capital out of a fortnight 's bus tour to Lake Garda . |
| 15 | The CNAA , he and others believed , had made great progress in improving the standards of business studies , and had begun to do the same for management studies , but ‘ the job of improving management studies has hardly begun . |
| 16 | Above all I was pleased to have assured myself an income exceeding that on which some men had written great poetry , others had done great deeds , many had been free and happy . |
| 17 | She also wanted to put an end to any sexual intercourse with her husband , though formerly both he and she had had great enjoyment from it . |
| 18 | Despite her indulgence of him , she had kept him very much tied to her apron strings and had had great difficulty in relinquishing him to a wife . |
| 19 | ‘ When we visited the Ukraine , we had had great difficulty in explaining what a piper looks and sounds like , ’ said Peter . |
| 20 | In Opposition we had had great fun pursuing Bill Rodgers on the standard of the baked beans and the quality of the fried cod . |
| 21 | When Henry VIII dismissed three of these gentlemen and various other household officials in 1519 , the Venetian ambassador commented that they had had great authority and had been the ‘ very soul ’ of the King . |
| 22 | Colonel Joshua Murchison was a hard , unyielding man and Joanna had drawn great comfort from her beautiful high spirited daughter . |
| 23 | Mr Goodwin , who recently took over as Suffolk NFU chairman and farms at Syleham Hall , near Fressingfield , said farmers had requested greater help on the high capital cost of farm machinery and buildings . |
| 24 | General Leclerc 's troops had shown great skill and speed , Gracey said , but much unnecessary brutality . |
| 25 | Initially , the new campaign had shown great promise , but the sinking of the Sussex provoked an unexpectedly violent reaction from President Wilson . |
| 26 | Earlier , the head of the fourth UN-IAEA inspection team assigned to re-assess Iraq 's nuclear capability [ see p. 38361 ] , David Kay , had indicated that the government had shown greater willingness to co-operate with UN inspectors . |
| 27 | American officials had shown greater interest in Korea from 1943 onwards as part of the State Department 's preparations for handling the consequences of Japan 's defeat . |
| 28 | Before the days of portable recording machines which everyone could carry with them , record companies had to use great imagination to fill their catalogues with new and interesting material . |
| 29 | As more reports emerged , putting the death toll in Timisoara between several hundred and several thousand , Mr Ceausescu said the security forces had displayed great patience and had fulfilled their duty towards ‘ the homeland , people and socialist achievements ’ . |
| 30 | Among the Arabs , Saudi Arabia , which had invested great prestige in the plan , has suffered the biggest setback . |