Example sentences of "[adv] been a great [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 David had always been a great fashion person as well .
2 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 !
3 It 's funny they 've never been a great juice freak really
4 ‘ There 's never been a great woman composer , ’ said my mother with an air of triumph , not because she delighted in this deficiency of her sex , but because she thought it percipient to have noticed .
5 He had never been a great wine drinker , but on every visit to the Mayfair Hotel in London ( which he used often ) he was presented with a complimentary bottle of wine .
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