Example sentences of "[vb past] been a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1920s , she 'd been a great beauty and a sharp dresser . |
| 2 | Tom had been a great help in advising him on the farming aspects and , of course , on the teaching . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I did not sleep well that night : it had been a great day and the call of the wild kept me nervous and excited . |
| 5 | Mr Devlin said afterwards it had been a great day in Yarm 's history . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That had been a great adventure , but it was nothing to his travels . |
| 8 | Those limitations had been a great attraction to Anna , when they first met . |
| 9 | Now there had been a great shortage of messages from heaven for a very long time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ The reaction from my clients and business contacts was tremendous — perhaps some of them wish they had done the same — and one senior partner from the Big Six wrote and told me that his mother had been a great friend of Lady Reading , the WRVS 's founder , and that until he was 15 he thought all women dressed in green ! ’ |
| 12 | But the existence of the offer -however it arose — reminded the town of what once had been a great benefit , and the Company of what had become a great burden , which it had no wish to assume again , however indirectly . |
| 13 | A tragedy in a way , for I thought that Allan Wells had been a great athlete . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Kenneth thought it had been a great year . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | THE OPENING ceremony had been a great success . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | THE Brownies ' Hallowe'en party had been a great success Carol had enjoyed every minute of it . |
| 20 | The small orchestra was ‘ feeble ’ , and Mozart wrote sadly to his wife that the concert had been a great success from the point of view of honour and glory , but a complete financial flop . |
| 21 | Kate said the evening had been a great success : it received plenty of local press coverage , the Rossendale Group increased its membership , and the Mayor agreed to donate £100 to Amnesty . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This had been a great success in both countries not only for the deaf but for their hearing fellow citizens , who made " learning sign language " the second most popular study after English in adult education . |
| 24 | JC : Kenneth Green had designed our production of Cosi fan tutte which had been a great success . |
| 25 | Scotland coach Allan Hosie said the Pacific tour had been a great success considering eight Scots were on the British Lions tour and other players were not able to make the trip . |
| 26 | Generally the first year of the expanded Civic Theatre had been a great success . |
| 27 | The magazine , which featured a photograph of and comments from Sedgefield MP and employment spokesman Mr Tony Blair , had been a great success , said Miss Armstrong . |
| 28 | The committee was told a similar event in Stockton had been a great success . |
| 29 | It had been a great relief to learn from the lawyers that Sunset Cottage , Overclyst , their new home , was already furnished . |
| 30 | The defence counsel , Robert Henderson , QC , said that Mr Buckley 's death had been a great shock to Sutherland who had been very lucky to escape with his life . |