Example sentences of "to have a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the missionary had to try to take the place of the doctor and the nurse , and had to keep with him a stock of basic medicines — iodine , castor oil , Epsom salts , santonin ( for worms ) , quinine tablets for malaria , and a plentiful supply of aspirin in which the village people seemed to have a great faith . |
| 2 | Mr Spurgeon and Mr Spurgeon 's people were determined to have a great chapel . ’ |
| 3 | To understand life today , you have to have a great sense of humour . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't really know much about Doctor Reid , ’ I admitted , ‘ except that he seems to have a great sense of humour and is — well , perhaps a bit unconventional . ’ |
| 5 | There are two puppy opens , with Williams ' ever-improving Arfur Daley , a recent open winner at Brough Park , looking to have a great chance alongside Gordon Rooks ' Movealong Sharp and Tommy Robinson 's Just Right Air . |
| 6 | 700 little whirling dirvishes from all over the region packed onto Cheltenham racecourse with just one thing in mind , to have a great day out . |
| 7 | This book provided a fundamental basis for the conservation movement ( Mumford , 1931 ) , it proved to have a great influence upon the way in which land was visualized and used ( Lowenthal , 1965 ) , and its full title Man and Nature or Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action clearly indicates the direction in which it was pointing . |
| 8 | Well they , they had to do the , it had n't used to have very good drainage and far more of a slope , it , it 's far more level today than it used to be , it used to have a great slope towards the long end which was considered an advantage to Walsall and the water used to gather , but I believe the improved the drainage and had pipes put under which it , it does n't seem to gather water so much now down at the railway end . |
| 9 | The approach , however , is fundamentally marginal : it is not going to have a great effect on urban economies faced with the impact of massive corporate restructuring ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ One woman told me she used to have a great view from her window across a local park . |
| 11 | Phelan and Staunton seem to have a great understanding on the left wing and I doubt Charlton will move either . |
| 12 | As Menachem Begin recalled ‘ Ben Gurion used to say that if you 're pursuing a policy that may lead to war , it 's vital to have a great power behind you . ’ |
| 13 | Perhaps it is the fault of the world in which we live , but people seem to have a great fear of failing , forgetting that failing at something does not mean that one is a ‘ failure ’ at life . |
| 14 | No holiday in Florida would be complete without a trip to Disneyworld or the Epcot Centre — and with Club 18–30 you 're sure to have a great time ! |
| 15 | ‘ I want you to have a great time tonight , ’ he said several times , ‘ but do n't go without taking away 12 business cards . ’ |
| 16 | For a week or so after we moved to Cornwall , I was free to have a great time exploring my new habitat . |
| 17 | I just want my dancers to have a great time . ’ |
| 18 | This self-confessedly wilful boy always contrived to have a great deal of his own way and seemed able to follow his bent whenever the weather permitted . |
| 19 | ‘ I can hardly be expected to have a great deal of time for gardening , ’ she said , ‘ I am forced to pay out money for gardening help . ’ |
| 20 | The laws of war ought to have a great deal to say about , or rather against , the use of nuclear weaponry . |
| 21 | It is going to have a great deal of influence on the future of Unix because it is going to influence , for example , how we spend our money on research and development . ’ |
| 22 | Many of them are likely to have a great deal more sharp , down-to-earth commonsense than you have . |
| 23 | I happen to have a great deal on my mind at the moment . |
| 24 | The latter was more likely ; he did not seem to have a great deal of time for God . |
| 25 | We 've also been able to have a great deal more equality . |
| 26 | I am keen for them to have a greater opportunity to develop both their working and their family lives . |
| 27 | Qaddafi says that nations are likely to have a greater proportion of written members than tribes generally do ( III , ‘ Merits of the tribe ’ , ‘ The nation ’ ) ; and he says that shared experience can forge a common solidarity , a sense of belonging . |
| 28 | I mean I want to start with , with pensions pay and er , basically what 's happening is that everyone 's suffering pay cuts er and er th th what the government is doing is , first of all is attacking the State pension scheme er , and it 's allowing , er , employers to continue to rip-off occupational pension schemes and er since it 's pay , and it 's our pay , we wan na make sure we control it and I do n't see why the employers should be allowed to continue to exploit er , us both at one , both in terms of the pay we get now and the pay we get when we retire , whether it be at sixty whether it be er , whenever we wish to er retire and er , I think it 's very important if the government is er committed to crime prevention , that it actually starts doing something about those for , those , those employers , and Maxwell has , has been er referred to already , he 's just the tip of this very big iceberg er , and er , up and down the country , people are suffering substantial thefts of pay er employers are systematically organizing wages snatches , that 's what this er pension fraud is all about , and it 's about time that our government actually got round er and tackled this very important corporate crime issue that 's actually going on at the moment and er , I think that it 's very important that we ensure that we 're involved in er managing our own pension sch p pension funds , and therefore we should be pushing through demands of the er th the , the charter for pension fund democracy , and ensuring er that the government actually listens to what we 're saying , and actually er comes up with answers why we can not have the right to control our pay cos I can I ca n't see an any reason that they come back and say why democracy , why they ca n't , why , why they wo n't allow us to have a greater say and control our own pension funds and that 's I think is a legitimate demand that we should be campaigning for , up and down the country . |
| 29 | I hear , I , I , I think there is a tendency with the County Council but as I discovered as Chairman of Highways that members want to take a greater interest and to have a greater say on the items on the agenda now planning is is not a controversial as , as say highway items , but nevertheless I think there will be times and there will be agendas which will require a great deal of discussion on the individual items and I 'm also a great believer bearing in mind comments if it ai n't broke , do n't bend it . |
| 30 | A curriculum-based report is likely to have a greater chance of success because it shows benefits to pupils , the teachers and the school librarian i.e. the whole school . |