Example sentences of "it [vb past] be [art] great [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Kenneth thought it had been a great year . |
2 | Since it had been a great success when read aloud to ‘ our local club ’ , Tolkien had absolute confidence in submitting it to the publisher of The Hobbit , Stanley Unwin . |
3 | All three teachers were adamant that despite the lack of time for consultation , the lack of space and resources and other problems that had nothing to do with the curricular rationale behind the project , it had been a great success . |
4 | I did not sleep well that night : it had been a great day and the call of the wild kept me nervous and excited . |
5 | Mr Devlin said afterwards it had been a great day in Yarm 's history . |
6 | It had been a great relief to learn from the lawyers that Sunset Cottage , Overclyst , their new home , was already furnished . |
7 | it had been a great patrol during which we had made a lot of new friends , carried out a great deal of work en route and broken into completely new territory for the cutters . |
8 | As the neighbours started to emerge later in the day , everyone agreed it had been a great San Juan . |
9 | It had been a great directorship . |
10 | It had been a great moment . |
11 | It had been the great achievement of the geologists to explain how , given enough time , the operation of exactly the same forces visible today could explain the enormous variety of what could be observed on the inanimate earth , past and present . |
12 | She had told no one at all but it had been the great dream of her life to go to Spain , the real Spain . |