Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] great " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I can well comprehend your daughter 's being upset but , I assure you , I would have given a great deal to prevent it .
2 The Consul General would have given a great deal to stop this exchange going any further but he could hardly say anything without worsening the situation for himself .
3 He would have given a great deal to have sounded less incredulous .
4 Pumfrey would have given a great deal to know .
5 Lost in the malai chain of command , shuffled round from captor to captor , I would not have given a great deal for my chances .
6 This left him an enormous amount of scope for demonstrating the kind of narrative energy that most English fiction-writers would have given a great deal to acquire .
7 Erm , that that that that is a point where the discovery in itself , must have given a great deal of pleasure to a a er a number of people who 've been involved in the , in the research .
8 yeah , so I did have to guess a great deal
9 I should have to know a great deal more about you .
10 " You will have to pull the great guns yourselves , since there are no horses . "
11 I am afraid I believe a caution would have come a great deal more quickly .
12 In some circumstances this remained true even in straightforward administrative interactions where strings of questions about what was going to happen next sometimes led to complicated and unproductive guessing games , and where a simple clear statement would have saved a great deal of time .
13 ‘ I would have done a great deal more , Hilary , ’ he told her seriously .
14 King Alfred 's successes may well have owed a great deal to his predecessors , but in the construction of his network of defensive fortresses we see an ability to command similar to Offa 's , and perpetuated by his son Edward the Elder and grandson Æthelstan , who conquered all England for the West Saxon dynasty .
15 He might have met a great hero , or the cunningest of thieves , or some wise and great sage .
16 Here you would have seen a great attraction and opportunities to do well in expanding industries .
17 ‘ I would have made a great secretary , I love organising things .
18 He would have made a great dramatic actor .
19 Piggy might have been able to save the boys ; as with his sensible , mature attitude resulting from the trauma caused by his parents ' death , he could have made a great impact on the boys .
20 However , we will have to cover a great deal of territory in a limited space if the cost of this book is not to become prohibitive .
21 Such similarities would not have surprised the great anatomist Cajal , who , overwhelmed by his first view of the insect optic lobe , wrote :
22 If he approaches the fun level achieved by Gary , they he will have had a great year .
23 All the same , he should have thought a great deal more about what lay behind the exhibits .
24 He and Mother must have thought a great deal of the place to go to that expense at a time when money was so short .
25 For example , Videologic 's real-time video capture and manipulation system , the DVA-4000 board , could not have become the great success it is today without Videologic 's excellent accompanying authoring software .
26 The factory workshop has become what Mao would have called a Great Political School .
27 However , Gibson had no experience on the Mossie and would have benefited a great deal from a few hours with the PFF Mossie Unit at Warboys — perhaps a couple of low-level bombing attacks on our bombing range .
28 But whatever those proposals may be , schools now will have the opportunity of opting out , and I think it 's a fair guess that if the opting out legislation had been in place when comprehensive education was imposed upon this county in 1964 , you would probably have found a great number of the grammar schools would have opted out , using the legislation , and I have no doubt whatsoever that in every single one of those cases you would have had a large majority of parents in support of that .
29 He might have known the Great Enchanter personally , and will almost certainly covet some of Drachenfels ' magical possessions .
30 ‘ But without the special cover I 'd have had to pursue that claim on my own and it would have cost a great deal more .
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