Example sentences of "[vb infin] be a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I drank too much at dinner and missed whole stretches of conversation , noting at one point with tipsy clarity that people who could converse were a great boon to the inarticulate who yet , when in the company of their tongue-tied fellows , felt it essential to say something . |
| 2 | One of the things that can emerge is a great deal of mutual help , so that there is not just one group of people giving out to another but a group of people reaching out to one another . |
| 3 | Because , looking at Britain from abroad , all you could see was a great cloud of knickers . |
| 4 | She was quite perfect and that those eyes could not see was a great tragedy , one that Maggie felt deeply at that moment . |
| 5 | Frantic attempts to have my bags recalled came to nought and by half-past-one the Taiwan Timberland lookalikes hit deep slush at Torino after a salivating glimpse of Monte Bianco and blanketed environs a few feet to the left wingtip. 10 December must have been a great day for skiing . |
| 6 | A hairless chest would have been a great advantage for a bisexual like myself . |
| 7 | It was a beautiful day with small cumulus clouds and about thirty miles visibility , and it should have been a great experience , but unfortunately I felt deadly sick all the way and could hardly bear to look out . |
| 8 | What should have been a great event was diminished . |
| 9 | IT SHOULD have been a great year for Julie Walters . |
| 10 | After all , South Africa was a long way off in those days and home leave must have been a great rarity . ’ |
| 11 | He left a plate of chocolate biscuits as a peace offering — at any other time it would have been a great treat — and went off with his friends . |
| 12 | The visit should have been a great success for both the tall and the short mavericks of the respective alliances . |
| 13 | Later , in The Sense of Order , my book on decoration , I say somewhere that the shepherd boy who cut a twig from a willow tree and made a little pipe to play a tune on may have been a great genius but we can not tell . |
| 14 | It 's lucky it should happen today ; it would have been a great nuisance tomorrow , in the train . ’ |
| 15 | There must also have been a great number of ferns , lycopods and horsetails existing as understorey plants but also isolated in dense swards , There was not the wide-scale domination of conifers hinted by Benton which somewhat invokes a picture of foodless dark plantation-style forests . |
| 16 | I can see I have been a great burden to you . |
| 17 | I sent the cheque back , saying that although it had been immensely good of them to bring me up , I must have been a great burden and was now a disappointment , so I would prefer them to keep this money as some repayment for all they had done . |
| 18 | ‘ It must have been a great game to watch — Dalian seemed to think so , ’ said the Villa boss . |
| 19 | John Donne may have been a great frequenter of plays , but the catalogue of his books he produced in the early seventeenth century reveals no dramatist among the many contemporary English writers he assembled . |
| 20 | And finally , a lot of games coming up , a lot of midweek games , so plenty of chance for United to erm continue to climb the table , although three points against the side on equal points really would have been a great bonus would n't it ? |
| 21 | ( She also taught the social secretary to play the piano , but he was not an apt pupil and must have been a great disappointment to her . ) |
| 22 | It would have been a great disappointment if someone had n't taken Don 's place . |
| 23 | Nothing has gone right for Armiger or Tenby — remember him — and although Commander in Chief won two Derbys , the fact that Cecil 's more exposed two-year-olds failed to blossom must have been a great disappointment to him . |
| 24 | Nothing has gone right for Armiger or Tenby — remember him — and although Commander in Chief won two Derbys , the fact that Cecil 's more exposed two-year-olds failed to blossom must have been a great disappointment to him . |
| 25 | ‘ You could have been a great cabinet maker , ’ she told him . |
| 26 | Terence Rigby and his pals were eyeing him and Mallachy with clear intent , and Rosie 's presence would have been a great embarrassment . |
| 27 | There must have been a great fire . |
| 28 | He had to sing properly in Zarewitsch and one was reminded yet again that he could have been a great singer if only he had tried . |
| 29 | Hugh Kenner veers unexpectedly into the idiom of the British schoolboy : ‘ Blast should have been a great lark ’ . |
| 30 | In retrospect , she said , the Budget could have been a great deal worse for disabled people considering what issues had been bandied about in the media recently . |