Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [prep] a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this reason the history of discussion between theists and atheists about the existence of God has been characterised by a great deal of mutual misunderstanding . |
| 2 | Crime has been studied from a great variety of perspectives . |
| 3 | Alexander III has been seen as a great lawyer pope : he made pronouncements , gave judgments and held a council for the whole Church in which the law was defined . |
| 4 | Furthermore , the deregulation of bus services has shifted demand away from traditional large buses towards smaller ones , the demand for which has been met to a great extent by importers . |
| 5 | His loss has been felt as a great national calamity … assembled as we are in the execution of a Plan of great public Utility … . ’ |
| 6 | The inclusion of ‘ subsidiarity ’ in the Maastricht Treaty on European Union has been presented as a great victory for those who wanted to see the centralising , Federalist and irrevocable proposals of the Treaty given some sort of counterbalance for the rights of the nation state . |
| 7 | INROADS first Safe Driving Challenge which they believe is the first competition of its kind in Local Authority has been hailed as a great success . |
| 8 | Since the World War II , it has gradually changed from being selective , non-selective and then selective again , according to the Government and has been used as a great political tool . |
| 9 | Some of the money has been spent on a great collection of literary manuscripts . |
| 10 | Deaf education has been associated with a great deal of dogma which has had varying degrees of influence over the years . |
| 11 | Could I say Chairman , in Worcester and Shropshire are in agreement with this budget and er , which has been engineered to a great deal by the Chairman of the Budget and er , we 're here to , |
| 12 | This rather rosy picture has been subjected to a great deal of criticism . |
| 13 | Suddenly she was feeling as though she 'd been dropped from a great height . |
| 14 | This would have been counted as a great success and a reasonable rate of progress in the 1850s or 1860s but was so unprecedented and so humiliating , given the contemporary assumptions about government control , that the bill was dropped . |
| 15 | He says that the one they 're working on at the moment has bodies which appear to have been buried in a great hurry . |
| 16 | She had been left outside a great many pubs on warm summer evenings while models and some younger aspiring painters had occasionally checked to see if she was still there . |
| 17 | Coun. Alan Robinson ( Lab ) said towns all over Europe had introduced pedestrian-only shopping for at least part of the day and it had been hailed as a great success . |
| 18 | The hillside had been quarried for a great many years . |
| 19 | The fire had been doused under a great , smoking heap of insects ; the human beings shook themselves like dogs to rid themselves of the sickening creatures , which were showing , for some reason , perhaps because she was wearing a white muslin dress , a particular desire to land on Lucy . |
| 20 | like if you ever work in a children 's ward you can always tell the children that 've been hospitalised for a great length of time cos you can do anything with them |