Example sentences of "[conj] have been [art] great " in BNC.

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1 Finally , the Gatwick Express service between London ( Victoria ) and Gatwick Airport was launched by InterCity in May 1984 and has been a great success .
2 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 ’ .
3 There is and has been a great temptation to design many types of record sheets which involve complex systems of ticks , crosses and shadings to represent attainment .
4 11 And saw heaven opened , and a certain vessel descending unto him , as if had been a great sheet knit at the four comers , and let down to the earth .
5 I regard as having been the greatest achievement of the English courts in my judicial lifetime .
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