Example sentences of "[conj] it was [art] great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I think bringing out the national agreement , although it was a great development for the union , and these docked a lot of the work they had to beforehand had to do , it certainly did n't help the relations and the entries in the trade union movement . |
| 2 | Although it was a great coup for the KGB , once the pair got to Moscow it is hard to see what they could have told the Russians that was not already known or made any great difference to East-West relations . |
| 3 | So fine was her memory and so good were her stories about everyone from Mrs Simpson ( ‘ so angular , all elbows and knees ’ ) to Stanley Baldwin ( ‘ a terrible old humbug about the countryside ’ ) that it was a great pity she refused to write her memoirs . |
| 4 | But he must n't forget that it was a great occasion for old Willis , who must be getting on for sixty-live , ready to take the knock any day now . |
| 5 | We felt that it was a great tribute to us and all our many comrades who made the supreme sacrifice . |
| 6 | Sidorov admitted that it was a great honour to be appointed to the government , but was not yet ready to discuss his policies , as he ‘ needed to assess the situation at the Ministry ’ , although he did hint that changes in the organisation 's structure would be required . |
| 7 | ‘ All of the 130 pupils thought that it was a great way to end our five years at Bohunt . ’ |
| 8 | The Historia Dunelmensis Ecclesiæ says that the English were heavily defeated there by the Scots in 1018 , and the Historia Regum that it was a great battle fought in 1018 between Earl Uhtred of Northumbria and Malcolm king of Scots , supported by Owain king of Strathclyde . |
| 9 | Her first thoughts were that it was a great shame to turn such a wonderful building into a restaurant and hotel . |
| 10 | Y you mentioned that the that it was a great encouragement to you to have outside support . |
| 11 | He says that it was a great ride . |
| 12 | It is suggested that it was the great grain stores of the early Egyptian civilization that attracted the local wild cats . |
| 13 | On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Before that it was the great cup years of the early fifties but it 's all too long ago . |
| 15 | Anderton said : ‘ I 'd never scored a hat-trick as a professional , so it was a great feeling . ’ |
| 16 | He was both courageous and physically attractive , but deranged , and it was a great relief even to his associates when he left Scotland to die a pauper in Naples . |
| 17 | In 1979 we held the United Kingdom 's first showbiz-style election rally for Mrs Thatcher , and it was a great success . |
| 18 | Will wrote his play Richard III for Richard Burbage , and it was a great success . |
| 19 | In the 1980s , we had a Japanese Tea Ceremony in the Elmwood Hall and it was a great success . |
| 20 | Jockey Mick Dittman said : ‘ I was n't happy with his action , but he stretched out really well to the finish and it was a great performance by him . ’ |
| 21 | There was a Dylan Thomas in Hopper , not just in his abilities but in his self-destruct mechanism and it was a great pity in many ways that he spent so many years in James Dean 's gloomy black shadow , because he is talented and perhaps even more diverse . |
| 22 | These mothers and children are very special people and it was a great pleasure to be involved with the pilgrimage . |
| 23 | The new experience everyone enjoyed was eating bananas and it was a great disappointment when the supply stopped short at the beginning of the war . |
| 24 | they were and they were all hits and it was a great period . |
| 25 | In the interval Frederica became useful for once , and recited to the bored young Grimauds as much as she could remember — and it was a great deal — of the thick , incomprehensible English verse . |
| 26 | And it was a great tragedy cos er it did i i it did cause the general strike and er we had a week of the general strike . |
| 27 | This race had all the earmarks of a mediocre 1,000 Guineas rehearsal and it was no great surprise to see Musicale , the winner of last Friday 's Fred Darling Stakes , at Newbury , cut to as low as 11–4 favourite for the 1,000 Guineas , on April 30 after yesterday 's race . |
| 28 | At this time , it was believed that female genitalia were merely internal versions of the male , with the clitoris being a tiny penis , and it was the greater heat of the male that had expelled his organs . |
| 29 | ‘ I went on a submarine trip when I was 16 , and it was the greatest thing I could imagine then to serve my country in a submarine . |
| 30 | It was the foremost achievement of my career up until then , and it was the greatest feeling I had ever had . |