Example sentences of "prove a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's a very busy man , but he has not missed a session , and he 's proving a great asset . |
| 2 | Another project that received sponsorship from the Wood Group was the Granite Foundations book for start-up businesses , which has now been published and is proving a great success . |
| 3 | No easy task , but it 's already proving a great success , as Richard Barnett reports : |
| 4 | At one time , the apple trees were proving a great temptation to young men who would shin over the wall at night . |
| 5 | The Independent Living Fund has proved a great success in giving severely disabled people an opportunity to live in the community . |
| 6 | The Contemporary Art Society 's idea of shopping for art at low prices and in an informal environment , has proved a great success over the past nine years . |
| 7 | To date parishioners have been extremely generous in their giving and the scheme has proved a great success . |
| 8 | Johnston had an unhappy time at Rangers after returning from French club Metz and his subsequent move to Everton has not yet proved a great success . |
| 9 | Units are available on flexible leasing arrangements and have already proved a great success . |
| 10 | The recently electrified East Coast route has proved a great success … but could such modern technology be adapted to a railway designed more than a hundred and fifty years ago ? |
| 11 | Although his Cooking in Ten Minutes ( Bruno Cassirer , distributed by Faber , 15s. ) , a lighthearted treatise on how to make the most of charcuterie or delicatessen food — first published in England in 1948 — has proved a great favourite , there exists a much more representative book , a collection of lectures , radio talks , recipes and articles , called Cooking with Pomiane ( Bruno Cassirer , distributed by Faber , 18s . ) . |
| 12 | One teacher showed a brief extract from a historical film that had proved a great box office success . |
| 13 | This residential healing centre has proved a great blessing to many of my friends . |
| 14 | Whereas the problem of payment of compensation by local authorities to a developer refused planning consent had always proved a great obstacle to effective control , the new situation was that where land was developed , the increase in its value resulting from the grant of planning permission was secured for the community by the imposition of a development charge ( equivalent to 100 per cent of the increase in value ) , to be assessed and collected by a Central Land Board . |
| 15 | The common law has not proved a great source of procedural protection for aliens . |
| 16 | She also thinks Taligent will prove a great boon to both its parents . |
| 17 | Clayton 's ‘ natural ’ approach to photography proved a great asset in his continued success . |
| 18 | Our hilltop villa proved a great vantage point for the spectacular storms that , after a few days , cleared the air and allowed Provence to shine in her brilliant colours , as if a gauze veil had been lifted . |
| 19 | The Inquirer proved a great success . |
| 20 | A Congregational Picnic was held in Killicomaine on the evening of Thursday 26 June 1952 and proved a great success . |
| 21 | This proved a great success , not least because this was the first time that paintings by Jackson Pollock had been exhibited in Europe . |
| 22 | A luncheon held at ‘ Langton ’ proved a great success for Tunbridge Wells branch . |
| 23 | His move proved a great success . |
| 24 | The letter proved a great success . |
| 25 | A book , British Sign language a beginners Guide , by Dorothy Miles , a deafened writer , poetess and actress with close links with the FDA , was published by the BBC contemporaneously and proved a great success . |
| 26 | This event , very well supported , proved a great success . |
| 27 | This event , very well supported , proved a great success . |
| 28 | THE recent ‘ Gift of Sight ’ appeal proved a great success . |
| 29 | With a tireless Pat Palmer rushing from A to B organising everything and trying to keep it all running smoothly , the course proved a great success . |
| 30 | I learned about them during the course of visiting various wholesale food markets in France : visits which proved a great deal more instructive than a thousand meals in restaurants , however good , could ever be . |