Example sentences of "[pron] has [been] a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | My last telephone call was to the head of Oatridge agricultural college , which has been a great help to the agricultural community in Scotland . |
| 2 | This is not another knocking piece on Hanley , who has been a great player for club and country . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In recent years there has been a great increase in the use of active compounds . |
| 8 | Since about 1960 there has been a great increase in our knowledge of Maya history . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There has been a great deal of crossing with the Charolais . |
| 11 | There has been a great deal of debate about the collection and use of these . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Under Mick Newmarch , there has been a great refocusing on core activities and values , ’ says Mr Lawrence . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Although there has been a great song and dance about his supposedly suspect temperament this season , I ca n't fault it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In between there has been a great diversity of titles and two journals . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | There has been a great black smudge all down the crag ever since … ’ . |
| 21 | With foodstuffs , for example , there has been a great deal of trial and error over many millennia to determine whether a given animal or plant provides desirable food . |
| 22 | We could have what you English call ‘ fun ’ … and I do not think there has been a great deal of that commodity in your life so far . |
| 23 | Following South Africa 's reintroduction there has been a great deal of discussion about whether the ban on Mike Gatting and his fellow ‘ rebel ’ tourists should be lifted . |
| 24 | It is difficult , however , to accept the concept of work which is non-profit-making or which may even cost the providing employer a substantial amount of on-going revenue funds , and until now there has been a great reluctance to fund such initiatives . |
| 25 | There has been a great deal of literature on the subject in the past ten years , and the situation has not remained static during that time . |
| 26 | Finally , there has been a great deal of direct action , from the blockading of clinics by groups like Operation Rescue to prevent women from gaining access , to the bombings of clinics in the mid-1980s by groups like the Army of God . |
| 27 | In both Britain and the United States there has been a great deal of debate on the question of police accountability . |
| 28 | But since the early 1970s , there has been a great deal of controversy about it and the prevailing mood in the accounting profession appears to be that the system is archaic and needs replacing . |
| 29 | For several decades , however , there has been a great deal of controversy among Marxist scholars about the theory of modes of production , the base/superstructure model , and the relation between the structural characteristics ( including contradictions ) of a particular form of society and the conscious actions of social classes and other groups , which has led to quite extensive revisions of Marxist theory , and in some cases to a critical reassessment of fundamental concepts in the theory ( Bottomore , 1992b ) . |
| 30 | A major campaign was launched regarding the wearing of cycle helmets and there has been a great response , favourable response to this , cutting down enormously under a number of fatal accidents involving pedal cyclists . |