Example sentences of "[noun prp] have be a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ivan Lendl has been a great credit to the game which he has played with distinction for so long . |
| 2 | A tragedy in a way , for I thought that Allan Wells had been a great athlete . |
| 3 | His landscaping at Quernmore Park near Lancaster had been a great success , as was his probable design for Casterton Hall near Kirkby Lonsdale , which looks uncommonly like Leck . |
| 4 | Tom had been a great help in advising him on the farming aspects and , of course , on the teaching . |
| 5 | But the similarity goes further : Miltiades had been a great figure in the early colonial days of Athens : his pocket principality in the Chersonese was in the van of Pisistratid expansion ( for good relations between the tyrants and Miltiades in the 520s see the archon-list ML 6 = Fornara 23 , belying Herodotus : Miltiades had held high office under the tyrants ) . |
| 6 | THE STREAMLINED hairdo , the synth-dance , U2-ish single , the grittier personas — aah , watching the reincarnation of Bon Jovi 's been a great hoot . |
| 7 | Certainly the trouble in Yugoslavia has been a great surprise to many . |
| 8 | Joe — finishing his Bournemouth shows last night before a national tour — added : God has been a great solace to me , plus the love of my fans . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ J.K. has been a great help — he knows so much about left-arm swing bowling and about playing in India . |
| 10 | Gary Bennett ( centre back ) : Only five short of 300 appearances for Sunderland since signing from Cardiff for a bargain £80,000 , Bennett has been a great servant to the club . |
| 11 | The committee was told a similar event in Stockton had been a great success . |
| 12 | A DIGITAL counting system to prevent overcrowding at Perry 's Brasserie in Beaumont Street , Darlington has been a great success , staff said yesterday The scheme was introduced last month after environmental health inspectors made a surprise visit and found about 930 people inside the capacity is 725 . |
| 13 | For a long time now Luce had been a great admirer of Peter Sebastian 's work , and had been over the moon when she 'd been approached and offered this wonderful opportunity . |
| 14 | ‘ Preston have been a great club and I 'm sure they will be great again . |
| 15 | ‘ People say I must regret joining United , but I 'm still pleased I came because working for Dave has been a great learning experience , ’ said Marwood . |
| 16 | Joanna Lumley had always had a passion , as she put it , for Dirk Bogarde ; Dustin Hoffman was a fan of Sting ; John Lennon had been a great Monty Python fan , and so Yoko was delighted to meet John Cleese . |