Example sentences of "had [art] great [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So I got the job , which had the great perk of corporate membership at the Riviera course , which was just down the road from the office . ’
2 I had the great honour of being invited to meet them on behalf of our Society , as our Society is one of the big users of the Resources Centre at the Community College where our Journal is printed etc .
3 Rob Beattie Rob Beattie had the great vision and foresight to launch What Personal Computer back in 1989 .
4 Rob Beattie had the great vision and foresight to launch What Personal Computer back in 1989 .
5 He had the great oak forest beyond the river cut down , ensuring that never again would it provide shelter for outlaw or wolf .
6 He went on to add that ‘ as a Spaniard she had the great advantage of not having any family in France who would have to be given honours and rewards ’ .
7 I had the great advantage of being brought up by a really traditional , old-fashioned nanny , who saw us through numerous disasters , one of which was the very memorable moment during the blitz when we were taken to a very smart tea shop in Curzon Street , a place where nannies met each other and their charges were just kept in tow .
8 In combination with other less tightly controlled groups the Party always had the great advantage of internal unity , coupled with an elaborate scheme of infiltration which had been designed to take advantage of the United Front tactic .
9 So had the great survey of landownership in Russia which Catherine set in motion in 1765 and even the Legislative Commission of two years later .
10 Four years ago local group member Norma Johnston ( now Head of Communications at the British Section ) had the great idea of organising a Film Week in Bristol to ‘ raise the awareness of human rights issues and highlight the work of Amnesty International ’ .
11 Their favourite was the great Barbarian Conspiracy of AD 367 , and had the Great Casterton villa been dug in the nineteenth century , this would certainly have been considered a victim whereas , of course , the pottery is certainly not earlier than AD 375 , and maybe much later .
12 Santerre , however , had problems of his own as Mandeville , assisted by Southgate and a servile Bowyer , had the great hall cleared and turned into a shire court .
13 Finally Rose of Lima also had the great consolation of believing that she was doing a socially useful job — and there were not many of these available for women in the early seventeenth century .
14 To his eternal credit , Griffin maintained his dignity throughout all the traumas and had the great consolation that his name will live as long as the great game is played .
15 On that tour New Zealand had the great batting talent of Stewie Dempster a their disposal .
16 After drinks on the balcony overlooking some of the grass courts where members were playing , we had a delicious luncheon , and I had the great pleasure of sitting next to my charming French host Alain Boucheron .
17 A widow of fifty-eight , Dorothy Hardisty had the great quality of adoring children , though her generosity of spirit did not extend to all adults .
18 He had the great gift of making you feel confident in your own ability to do things , and I know he did wonders for the West Riding children .
19 Even so , the French might have been able to pull through had the great motivator , Jacques Fouroux , been around .
20 He wrote , in The Dial for December 1922 , the most emphatically welcoming and apparently influential review of The Waste Land , and although this reads a little quaintly now because Wilson took very seriously Eliot 's supposed debt to Jessie L. Weston 's From Ritual to Romance ( which later criticism has taken lightly ) , his piece had the great virtue of conceding valid points to the opposition :
21 However , he recovered , and following the siege of Worcester had the great joy of being able to go and see his friends at Kidderminster once again .
22 Er I was chairman of that committee as well , View when , when , during quite a long period , until the whole system was changed to the council system like and went onto er and er there was one of our , our er officer who was in charge of welfare was a Mr who had a great knowledge of both Selkirk and Galashiels and the country and er he was known by everybody .
23 His specialities were country houses , churches and vicarages , and he had a great love for bricks , which he used brilliantly and ingeniously .
24 Rudolf had a great love for the Alps and sent Savery there to paint them .
25 The name was devised by Almroth Wright , who had a great love for such verbal inventions . )
26 He had a great love of music and when the rehearsal rooms were rented out would join the musicians .
27 The last of the truly great road races , the Targa Florio was the brainchild of wealthy Sicilian Vincenzo Florio who had a great love of racing cars .
28 She had a great love for her children and we all loved her intensely . "
29 Certainly she was too old to be Beth 's daughter , although it was obvious that the girl had a great affection for her .
30 We all had a great day and both Russell and Ellen were really pleased with the results .
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