Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been a bit difficult because we are used to doing the things that choirs do , having music and hiding behind it , and of course getting the girls to be uninhibited has been a bit difficult , but they 've taken to it very well actually and having the costumes for today 's rehearsals has been a great help . |
| 2 | I very much agree with my hon. Friend that local management of schools has been a great success . |
| 3 | There are enough good , specific reference sources available these days for the captions to have been a great deal more informative ; even at this very reasonable price the reader has a right to expect less of the hard work to be left up to him . |
| 4 | And a handful of critics is beginning to wonder whether Ireland has not concentrated a little too hard on attracting inward investors at the expense of building a strong home-grown computer and electronics industry : after all , the policy of rallying all centres of higher education to turn out highly-skilled hardware and software engineers has been a great success , but should n't more of those people be working for Irish companies ? |
| 5 | Those limitations had been a great attraction to Anna , when they first met . |
| 6 | The barbarian kings had been a great source of perplexity to the Christian bishops of the early Middle Ages . |