Example sentences of "[vb infin] been a great [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frantic attempts to have my bags recalled came to nought and by half-past-one the Taiwan Timberland lookalikes hit deep slush at Torino after a salivating glimpse of Monte Bianco and blanketed environs a few feet to the left wingtip. 10 December must have been a great day for skiing . |
| 2 | A hairless chest would have been a great advantage for a bisexual like myself . |
| 3 | IT SHOULD have been a great year for Julie Walters . |
| 4 | The visit should have been a great success for both the tall and the short mavericks of the respective alliances . |
| 5 | There must also have been a great number of ferns , lycopods and horsetails existing as understorey plants but also isolated in dense swards , There was not the wide-scale domination of conifers hinted by Benton which somewhat invokes a picture of foodless dark plantation-style forests . |
| 6 | I can see I have been a great burden to you . |
| 7 | John Donne may have been a great frequenter of plays , but the catalogue of his books he produced in the early seventeenth century reveals no dramatist among the many contemporary English writers he assembled . |
| 8 | ( She also taught the social secretary to play the piano , but he was not an apt pupil and must have been a great disappointment to her . ) |
| 9 | Nothing has gone right for Armiger or Tenby — remember him — and although Commander in Chief won two Derbys , the fact that Cecil 's more exposed two-year-olds failed to blossom must have been a great disappointment to him . |
| 10 | Nothing has gone right for Armiger or Tenby — remember him — and although Commander in Chief won two Derbys , the fact that Cecil 's more exposed two-year-olds failed to blossom must have been a great disappointment to him . |
| 11 | One of the craft was in a mighty hurry when he set Judas for Jesus at John vi.67 , as happened in 1609 ; and so was his descendant in 1653 when , at Corinthians vi.9 , he pronounced that ‘ the unrighteous shall inherit the kingdom of God ’ , which must have been a great comfort to a considerable number of citizens under the Commonwealth . |