Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I can see I have been a great burden to you . |
2 | I 've been a great believer in intuition ever since . ’ |
3 | Ever since then I 've been a great admirer of his work . |
4 | I have been a great fan of Martina 's since I was about 5 or 6 and I am now 15 going on 16 . |
5 | In the 1920s , she 'd been a great beauty and a sharp dresser . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ You 've been a great help . ’ |
8 | ‘ Gross exaggeration , ’ Fabia laughed , but could n't deny that she had been a great fan of the Czech composers , and still was . |
9 | ‘ You have been a great help . ’ ) |
10 | I can talk to her in a way I could n't before and she 's been a great help over the past year . |
11 | They 've been a great help , actually . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Too often Kendall seems preoccupied with finding a place in the team for Alan Harper , and although he has been a great servant to the club over the years , Everton will only be a really good side when he is playing in the reserves , and I do not mean that as an insult to Alan . |
14 | Said Anderson : ‘ He has been a great fillip to us not just with his excellent performances on the field , but throughout the club . |
15 | It has been a great privilege to see how God has been at work in their lives and to be part of His plan for these men . |
16 | It has been a great triumph for France 's construction and agricultural engineers , a dazzling testimony to the industry and enterprise of a people who so often appear , to those who do not know them , to be in a perpetual state of political and economic chaos . |
17 | ‘ But it has been a great triumph for Hochhauser , Willi . |
18 | It has been a great joy to me that we have remained a very close family . |
19 | When anyone suggests , as people will , that they have done a great thing for Anna , Tony and Christine are quick to reply that it has been a great thing , also , for them . |
20 | ‘ It has been a great cause for concern in London , particularly when he lives not far from where the Anti-Terrorist Squad uncovered a quantity of Semtex explosives in an IRA dump . |
21 | Kenneth thought it had been a great year . |
22 | Since it had been a great success when read aloud to ‘ our local club ’ , Tolkien had absolute confidence in submitting it to the publisher of The Hobbit , Stanley Unwin . |
23 | All three teachers were adamant that despite the lack of time for consultation , the lack of space and resources and other problems that had nothing to do with the curricular rationale behind the project , it had been a great success . |
24 | I did not sleep well that night : it had been a great day and the call of the wild kept me nervous and excited . |
25 | Mr Devlin said afterwards it had been a great day in Yarm 's history . |
26 | It had been a great relief to learn from the lawyers that Sunset Cottage , Overclyst , their new home , was already furnished . |
27 | it had been a great patrol during which we had made a lot of new friends , carried out a great deal of work en route and broken into completely new territory for the cutters . |
28 | It had been a great directorship . |
29 | It had been a great moment . |
30 | ‘ She was a very lovely girl and it 's been a great shock to us all , ’ agreed Melissa . |