Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [be] a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | JC : Kenneth Green had designed our production of Cosi fan tutte which had been a great success . |
| 2 | In the 1920s , she 'd been a great beauty and a sharp dresser . |
| 3 | ‘ Gross exaggeration , ’ Fabia laughed , but could n't deny that she had been a great fan of the Czech composers , and still was . |
| 4 | There had been a great deal of tinkering but no overall review . |
| 5 | At one time it was widely believed that there had been a great rise in the birth-rate ; there was , in fact , a slow rise to the end of the 1861–70 decade , after which the rate began to fall . |
| 6 | It was only released to the world , after translation , in 1921 when Richard Haehl procured the manuscript from Hahnemann 's ancestors by which time there had been a great establishment of homœopathy by J.T. Kent and those who followed him . |
| 7 | In the autumn there had been a great commotion when a large party of the King 's and Warden 's men , some fifty of them , mounted and heavily armed , gathered on Steep Ridgery and carefully marked where the plumes of smoke were rising — often there were more than one — and made off purposefully towards them . |
| 8 | There had been a great deal of fussing tonight . |
| 9 | There had been a great Victorian pile of a hospital there then , maybe still was unless they had demolished it , its chimney concealed inside a mock campanile . |
| 10 | At the end of 1067 there had been a great fire which had made nearly all the buildings unusable except the dormitory , the refectory , and enough of the cloister to make it possible for the monks to walk from one building to another without getting wet . |
| 11 | There had not been a meeting of the accident investigation division for fifteen years and there had been a great deal of development in the civil aviation scene in the intervening period , so a meeting was called in Montreal in January and February of that year . |
| 12 | The Navigation Acts were complicated and applying the regulations would have been harder if there had been a great deal of trade between the colonies , but in the seventeenth century most of the trade of each colony on the American mainland or in the West Indies was with England rather than with other colonies . |
| 13 | He told us that during the January ‘ freeze-up ’ there had been a great influx of shelduck . |
| 14 | Regarding effect on lifestyle , 154 ( 36% ) sufferers felt there had been a great deal or fair amount of effect ( 55 ( 45% ) men and 99 ( 34% ) women ) . |
| 15 | But Calatin 's banqueting hall and the house in the forest had wavered and grown dim — ‘ as if I am seeing it through water , ’ thought Fergus — and there had been a great heaviness within him so that it was difficult to breathe . |
| 16 | There had been black bitterness , and there had been a great aching void for longer than she cared to remember now . |
| 17 | Now there had been a great shortage of messages from heaven for a very long time . |
| 18 | There had been a great deal of blood . |
| 19 | This Election provides a stark contrast with the one of 1690 , when there had been a great deal of controversial pamphleteering , and where a significant number of contests had been fought over the issues of the Church and the security of the Protestant Succession . |
| 20 | Indeed , all they got was a great amount of sympathy and a £1000 bonus ! |
| 21 | It was as if they had served to draw some morbid agent from her blood , as if they had been a great black and damson poultice to draw off her petulant humours and leave her as placid as a Madonna . |
| 22 | Richard Baxter was further saddened by the loss of thousands of precious books in the fire , which he believed was a great loss to ‘ piety and learning ’ . |
| 23 | I did not sleep well that night : it had been a great day and the call of the wild kept me nervous and excited . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It had been a great relief to learn from the lawyers that Sunset Cottage , Overclyst , their new home , was already furnished . |
| 26 | It had been a great moment . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Kenneth thought it had been a great year . |
| 29 | It had been a great directorship . |
| 30 | 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 . |