Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been a great " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | I can see I have been a great burden to you . |
2 | I 've been a great believer in intuition ever since . ’ |
3 | Ever since then I 've been a great admirer of his work . |
4 | I have been a great fan of Martina 's since I was about 5 or 6 and I am now 15 going on 16 . |
5 | My last telephone call was to the head of Oatridge agricultural college , which has been a great help to the agricultural community in Scotland . |
6 | JC : Kenneth Green had designed our production of Cosi fan tutte which had been a great success . |
7 | This is not another knocking piece on Hanley , who has been a great player for club and country . |
8 | In the 1920s , she 'd been a great beauty and a sharp dresser . |
9 | Your conductors ' competitions brought on some new talent , beginning with the Finnish conductor Okko Kamu , who won the first competition in 1969 ; and you 've been a great help to most of the new generation of top conductors — Abbado , Ozawa , and so on . |
10 | ‘ You 've been a great help . ’ |
11 | ‘ Gross exaggeration , ’ Fabia laughed , but could n't deny that she had been a great fan of the Czech composers , and still was . |
12 | ‘ You have been a great help . ’ ) |
13 | I can talk to her in a way I could n't before and she 's been a great help over the past year . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | SIR — There has been a great play made of the impact of the minimum wage factor in the Social Chapter , but I have waited in vain for any reference to the other and more far reaching elements . |
18 | In recent years there has been a great increase in the use of active compounds . |
19 | Since about 1960 there has been a great increase in our knowledge of Maya history . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | There has been a great deal of crossing with the Charolais . |
22 | There has been a great deal of debate about the collection and use of these . |
23 | Over the past ten years or so there has been a great deal of innovative thinking and impressive empirical investigation in our field and the theory 1 have been reviewing has played its part . |
24 | ‘ Under Mick Newmarch , there has been a great refocusing on core activities and values , ’ says Mr Lawrence . |
25 | There has been a great deal of argument as to what a new enquirer needs to know before or immediately upon making a decision to follow Christ for that decision to be meaningful . |
26 | For this reason there has been a great effort , over the years , to develop synthetic resin glues based , more or less , on the plastics which became popular in the 1930s . |
27 | Although there has been a great song and dance about his supposedly suspect temperament this season , I ca n't fault it . |
28 | He says there has been a great deal of interest shown in the firm because virtual reality is seen as an exciting new technology with a lot of potential . |
29 | In between there has been a great diversity of titles and two journals . |
30 | And although there has been a great deal of argument as to the cause , very few people would deny that Britain is in a state of decline . ’ |