Example sentences of "[been] a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been a great help , actually . |
| 2 | Ivan Lendl has been a great credit to the game which he has played with distinction for so long . |
| 3 | By 1989 InterCity director Dr john Prideaux was reassuring his customers that it was wrong to regard the APT as a failure ; it had indeed been a great design success ! |
| 4 | Finally , the Gatwick Express service between London ( Victoria ) and Gatwick Airport was launched by InterCity in May 1984 and has been a great success . |
| 5 | Hugh Kenner veers unexpectedly into the idiom of the British schoolboy : ‘ Blast should have been a great lark ’ . |
| 6 | This would not matter so much if Pound had not been a great technical innovator in verse writing . |
| 7 | Trading forecasts On this there does not , at least , seem to have been a great internal dispute . |
| 8 | With a bit more Imsak , this could have been a great book . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's been a great school for the temper . ’ |
| 10 | The hair rig has been a great leveller of angling ability and because on most waters it is self-hooking this can often lead to complacency on the angler 's part . |
| 11 | I did not sleep well that night : it had been a great day and the call of the wild kept me nervous and excited . |
| 12 | Since it had been a great success when read aloud to ‘ our local club ’ , Tolkien had absolute confidence in submitting it to the publisher of The Hobbit , Stanley Unwin . |
| 13 | And the language and idiom of the broadcasts has dated : ‘ There has been a great deal of soft soap talked about God for the last hundred years . |
| 14 | I 've been a great believer in intuition ever since . ’ |
| 15 | THE OPENING ceremony had been a great success . |
| 16 | His landscaping at Quernmore Park near Lancaster had been a great success , as was his probable design for Casterton Hall near Kirkby Lonsdale , which looks uncommonly like Leck . |
| 17 | David had always been a great fashion person as well . |
| 18 | There has been a great deal of correspondence in the trade press and the media concerning the absence of top quality vine fruits from the shops . |
| 19 | Which is not to say that popular humour in the States is particularly nice : in recent years there has been a great demand for in-your-face racist , ethnic and misogynist stuff , as typified on the respectable side by Jackie Mason and on the unholy by Andrew Dice Clay . |
| 20 | There had been a great deal of tinkering but no overall review . |
| 21 | ‘ You could have been a great cabinet maker , ’ she told him . |
| 22 | A hairless chest would have been a great advantage for a bisexual like myself . |
| 23 | At one time it was widely believed that there had been a great rise in the birth-rate ; there was , in fact , a slow rise to the end of the 1861–70 decade , after which the rate began to fall . |
| 24 | ‘ Israel has fled before the Philistines , and there has also been a great slaughter among the people ; your two sons also , Hophni and Phinehas , are dead , and the ark of God has been captured . ’ |
| 25 | Belonging to a small community has been a great asset . |
| 26 | Although there had clearly been a great deal of bumping and brawling , Aboyeur 's jockey Edwin Piper declared on unsaddling that he had would not object . |
| 27 | Train to Pakistan , a novel by Khushwant Singh , has been a great inspiration for me . |
| 28 | Your conductors ' competitions brought on some new talent , beginning with the Finnish conductor Okko Kamu , who won the first competition in 1969 ; and you 've been a great help to most of the new generation of top conductors — Abbado , Ozawa , and so on . |
| 29 | It has been a great joy to me that we have remained a very close family . |
| 30 | I can see I have been a great burden to you . |