Example sentences of "[vb base] been a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been a great help , actually . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've been a great help . ’ |
| 4 | I 've been a great believer in intuition ever since . ’ |
| 5 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 6 | Ever since then I 've been a great admirer of his work . |
| 7 | ‘ You have been a great help . ’ ) |
| 8 | These people have been a great help . |
| 9 | The fiscal incentives for use of unleaded petrol have been a great success . |
| 10 | All the investments we 've made in clean room technology have been a great success and the new laminate tubes business is doing well now after a difficult start some years ago . |
| 11 | The key-fobs sent to each individual member and Group secretary during 1979 have been a great success with many people writing in to the office expressing their appreciation ; it is hoped to produce a further token during out 30th anniversary year . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , the very fact that the study of inequality is the central issue means that there have been a great variety of competing theories and concepts attempting to describe and explain it . |
| 13 | The main features of this revolution have been a great decline in the area of grassland , the increase of mechanisation with the consequence of reduced farm labour , the widespread use of chemicals as tools and the simplification of crop rotations , and the introduction of important new crops such as maize . |
| 14 | Over the years there have been a great number of electronic games concocted for the hobbyist , including one or two cricket games . |
| 15 | ‘ Preston have been a great club and I 'm sure they will be great again . |
| 16 | I have been a great fan of Martina 's since I was about 5 or 6 and I am now 15 going on 16 . |