Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [been] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It 's been a bit difficult because we are used to doing the things that choirs do , having music and hiding behind it , and of course getting the girls to be uninhibited has been a bit difficult , but they 've taken to it very well actually and having the costumes for today 's rehearsals has been a great help . |
| 3 | I very much agree with my hon. Friend that local management of schools has been a great success . |
| 4 | The result has been a greater awareness by each of the priority areas of school development upon which the other has decided to focus . |
| 5 | There are enough good , specific reference sources available these days for the captions to have been a great deal more informative ; even at this very reasonable price the reader has a right to expect less of the hard work to be left up to him . |
| 6 | Over the years her religion had been a great comfort to her . |
| 7 | THE OPENING ceremony had been a great success . |
| 8 | Ivan Lendl has been a great credit to the game which he has played with distinction for so long . |
| 9 | And a handful of critics is beginning to wonder whether Ireland has not concentrated a little too hard on attracting inward investors at the expense of building a strong home-grown computer and electronics industry : after all , the policy of rallying all centres of higher education to turn out highly-skilled hardware and software engineers has been a great success , but should n't more of those people be working for Irish companies ? |
| 10 | Those limitations had been a great attraction to Anna , when they first met . |
| 11 | A tragedy in a way , for I thought that Allan Wells had been a great athlete . |
| 12 | Belonging to a small community has been a great asset . |
| 13 | The thinning out process has been a great shock to me , I had a higher opinion of working class thought — but it is that where the weakness lies , not in our efforts of propaganda . |
| 14 | With a trading profit for C&P last year of £473 million on sales of £4.2 billion [ 9 per cent up on 1986 ] , there can now be no doubt that the move has been a great success and that the thinking behind it was sound . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Kate said the evening had been a great success : it received plenty of local press coverage , the Rossendale Group increased its membership , and the Mayor agreed to donate £100 to Amnesty . |
| 17 | Tom had been a great help in advising him on the farming aspects and , of course , on the teaching . |
| 18 | The whole day had been a great strain and although they had attempted to resolve their differences and clear the air Rachel found herself dreading the prospect of working with David Markham on a permanent basis . |
| 19 | But the similarity goes further : Miltiades had been a great figure in the early colonial days of Athens : his pocket principality in the Chersonese was in the van of Pisistratid expansion ( for good relations between the tyrants and Miltiades in the 520s see the archon-list ML 6 = Fornara 23 , belying Herodotus : Miltiades had held high office under the tyrants ) . |
| 20 | THE STREAMLINED hairdo , the synth-dance , U2-ish single , the grittier personas — aah , watching the reincarnation of Bon Jovi 's been a great hoot . |
| 21 | The main features of this revolution have been a great decline in the area of grassland , the increase of mechanisation with the consequence of reduced farm labour , the widespread use of chemicals as tools and the simplification of crop rotations , and the introduction of important new crops such as maize . |
| 22 | Certainly the trouble in Yugoslavia has been a great surprise to many . |
| 23 | Joe — finishing his Bournemouth shows last night before a national tour — added : God has been a great solace to me , plus the love of my fans . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ J.K. has been a great help — he knows so much about left-arm swing bowling and about playing in India . |
| 25 | My father had been a great admirer of Kemal Ataturk — he fought in the Turkish army against the British in Gaza — and Ataturk 's picture hung in the living-room . |
| 26 | I had grown up believing that my father had been a great patriot who had died for Ireland , but she told me that Dermot was n't my father , and that my father was someone who hated the Irish and the idea of Irish independence . " |
| 27 | Where the father had been a great general , the son was rash and impetuous . |
| 28 | The small orchestra was ‘ feeble ’ , and Mozart wrote sadly to his wife that the concert had been a great success from the point of view of honour and glory , but a complete financial flop . |
| 29 | These people have been a great help . |
| 30 | The Channel Tunnel has been a great source of work , but not profits , in the last five years . |