Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [been] a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Said Anderson : ‘ He has been a great fillip to us not just with his excellent performances on the field , but throughout the club . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ But it has been a great triumph for Hochhauser , Willi . |
| 6 | It has been a great joy to me that we have remained a very close family . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |