Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] been a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been a great believer in intuition ever since . ’ |
| 2 | Ever since then I 've been a great admirer of his work . |
| 3 | I have been a great fan of Martina 's since I was about 5 or 6 and I am now 15 going on 16 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've been a great help . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You have been a great help . ’ ) |
| 7 | They 've been a great help , actually . |
| 8 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |