Example sentences of "to have [be] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we shall see in chapter 27 , in recent years there seems to have been a greater willingness in the Western liberal democracies to take action outside the normal channels of group and party politics . |
| 2 | There appears to have been a greater interest in orthogenesis in the earlier part of this century and writers such as Berg considered the subject in some depth . |
| 3 | Deemed to have been a great success , the HAA indicated that this sort of event would become a regular part of their work — being an extension of their long declared task , to increase the fund of knowledge relating to the operation and display of historic aircraft . |
| 4 | ‘ Your interviews seem to have been a great success , ’ said Melissa casually as she helped herself to cheese . |
| 5 | There are enough good , specific reference sources available these days for the captions to have been a great deal more informative ; even at this very reasonable price the reader has a right to expect less of the hard work to be left up to him . |
| 6 | He seems to have been a great romancer . |