Example sentences of "has [been] a great [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Train to Pakistan , a novel by Khushwant Singh , has been a great inspiration for me . |
| 2 | In between there has been a great diversity of titles and two journals . |
| 3 | My last telephone call was to the head of Oatridge agricultural college , which has been a great help to the agricultural community in Scotland . |
| 4 | The thinning out process has been a great shock to me , I had a higher opinion of working class thought — but it is that where the weakness lies , not in our efforts of propaganda . |
| 5 | Joe — finishing his Bournemouth shows last night before a national tour — added : God has been a great solace to me , plus the love of my fans . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ But it has been a great triumph for Hochhauser , Willi . |
| 8 | Playing in this competition has been a great springboard for me . ’ |
| 9 | The centre has been a great success since opening its doors a year ago and looks forward to celebrating many more birthdays . |
| 10 | Certainly the trouble in Yugoslavia has been a great surprise to many . |
| 11 | There has been a great outcry in Cwmbran about its possible closure . |
| 12 | In recent years there has been a great increase in the use of active compounds . |
| 13 | Since about 1960 there has been a great increase in our knowledge of Maya history . |
| 14 | ‘ Under Mick Newmarch , there has been a great refocusing on core activities and values , ’ says Mr Lawrence . |
| 15 | Ivan Lendl has been a great credit to the game which he has played with distinction for so long . |
| 16 | Gary Bennett ( centre back ) : Only five short of 300 appearances for Sunderland since signing from Cardiff for a bargain £80,000 , Bennett has been a great servant to the club . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A gift of £250 from Sir Alan 's will went towards the making of tennis courts , and in due course a Trust Fund was established , of which the School has been a great beneficiary over the years . |
| 19 | Which is not to say that popular humour in the States is particularly nice : in recent years there has been a great demand for in-your-face racist , ethnic and misogynist stuff , as typified on the respectable side by Jackie Mason and on the unholy by Andrew Dice Clay . |
| 20 | The Channel Tunnel has been a great source of work , but not profits , in the last five years . |
| 21 | It has been a great joy to me that we have remained a very close family . |
| 22 | Under normal circumstances small favours of this type could be obtained by a politician with government connections , and it was only circumstances of a temporary nature which made job provision difficult for Scots politicians , such as the effective block which appeared in 1737 following the lynching of an officer of the City Guard of Edinburgh , when as a writer remarked , the hanging of Captain Porteous ‘ sticks vastly in his majesties stomach and has been a great detriment to our countray-men in getting any thing done ’ . |
| 23 | Said Anderson : ‘ He has been a great fillip to us not just with his excellent performances on the field , but throughout the club . |
| 24 | Occupational Health Physician , Dr Gordon Morris said : ‘ This has been a great effort by Irene . |
| 25 | If we do , we now have a model and can say that he and his family have been through it and have borne it with great fortitude , resilience and courage — as has been said , only through their deep religious faith — and that that has been a great lesson to us all . |
| 26 | And the language and idiom of the broadcasts has dated : ‘ There has been a great deal of soft soap talked about God for the last hundred years . |
| 27 | There has been a great deal of correspondence in the trade press and the media concerning the absence of top quality vine fruits from the shops . |
| 28 | It is also claimed that there has been a great deal of harassment of Serbs and Montenegrins by Albanian nationalists , who hope to drive them out and establish an ‘ ethnically pure ’ Kosovo . |
| 29 | There has been a great deal of crossing with the Charolais . |
| 30 | There has been a great deal of debate about the collection and use of these . |