Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have given a great deal of thought as to how much I should actually tell you about this period and what just to leave to your imagination . |
| 2 | ‘ We played the leading role in bringing Zimbabwe to independence and have given a great deal of help to Zimbabwe since independence , ’ she said . |
| 3 | ‘ I have heard a great deal about Harvard — who has n't ? |
| 4 | We have heard a great deal about the upheavals in Eastern Europe in recent months . |
| 5 | We have heard a great deal about the assistance that will be given to buy-outs . |
| 6 | It was sold as part of the National Bus Company sale to a company about which we have heard a great deal in our deliberations , Stagecoach , which is based in Perth . |
| 7 | This I still consider the most brilliant course of lectures I have ever heard anywhere , and I have heard a great many . |
| 8 | We have completed a great deal and the team knows exactly how a thing must be done , so it is simply a question of completing the sequence , designing our record packaging , and also seeing how the market is developing for the video players and monitors . |
| 9 | Over nearly fifty years , I have developed a great affection for them . |
| 10 | The introduction comments : ‘ We have witnessed a great change in manners : the substitution of words without blows for blows with or without words ; an approximation in the manners of different classes ; a decline in the spirit of lawlessness . ’ |
| 11 | In North America these groups have received a great deal of attention , and provided valuable infomation on the Pleistocene climate . |
| 12 | The ‘ Lucy ’ poems have received a great deal of critical attention ( see , for example , F. R. Leavis in Revaluation ) ; it is because the ‘ Matthew ’ poems are so frequently ignored that I have chosen one of them for special comment . |
| 13 | Now paired with the joker-in-chief , Palmer said : ‘ We have formed a great relationship off the pitch . |
| 14 | As a frequent visitor to Scotland I have formed a great admiration for the Scottish farmer 's skills , particularly in animal husbandry and the attention that he pays to the production of a crop of whose product I am a not infrequent consumer . |
| 15 | In practice , writers on style have differed a great deal in their understanding of the subject , and one source of disagreement has been the question " To what or whom do we attribute style ? " |
| 16 | Two consecutive wins and the signing of the year have lifted a great weight from the place . |
| 17 | I would have thought that there would be an appreciable market for this CD , which , on a personal level , I have enjoyed a great deal . |
| 18 | This technique was originated by the Gestalt school , and since their early work experimental psychologists have amassed a great deal of information about which parameters influence the occurrence of apparent motion . |
| 19 | ( All the PTEs have done a great deal of work on the integration and simplification of fare-structures and the provision of interchangeable tickets . ) |
| 20 | Your recordings of Strauss 's orchestral works have become something of a legend , including works like the Sinfonia Domestica and the Alpine Symphony , which you have done a great deal to rehabilitate in public esteem . |
| 21 | When anyone suggests , as people will , that they have done a great thing for Anna , Tony and Christine are quick to reply that it has been a great thing , also , for them . |
| 22 | As early as 1707 Hugh , first Earl of Cholmondeley [ q.v. ] , was advised by a surveyor in London that the Smiths did a ‘ great deal of busness in the Contry and they have done a great deal of work thearabout & in Warwick you may easy hear of them ’ ; and when in the 1730s Sarah , Duchess of Marlborough [ q.v. ] , was building a house as far away as Wimbledon , Surrey , she stipulated that ‘ Mr. Smith of Warwickshire the Builder may be employed to make Contracts and to Measure the Work and to doe every thing in his Way that is necessary to Compleat the Work as far as the Distance he is at will give him leave to do . ’ |
| 23 | As the hon. Gentleman will know , the Government have done a great deal to assist the Scottish economy . |
| 24 | The efforts of the management and the work force now in the shipyards on the Clyde and in Yarrow 's have done a great deal to restore that badge of quality , which was in danger of slipping away . |
| 25 | On the distinction between education and training , we have done a great deal to bring together the best of education and of training . |
| 26 | ‘ Our intention was always to purchase a CT scanner in our business plan this year and we have done a great deal of work , ’ he said . |
| 27 | The youngsters who have come in have done a great job . ’ |
| 28 | On the contrary , it draws attention to the dangers of introducing western technology outside , and even in the west it 's a good illustration this of the extent to which or work in countries overseas has relevance for Britain , because we have done a great deal of work on the implications for the unemployment problem of having technology which requires too much capital , which has a very ratio of capital to labour . |
| 29 | I have seen a great many sights , you know . |
| 30 | I 'm a Catholic parent and I have seen a great deal of correspondence and adverse publicity in the local and Catholic press about this new Religious Education programme ‘ Here I Am ’ . |