Example sentences of "it [be] a great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , those who make it are a great bunch — and they know exactly what to expect — ‘ Holidays that Satisfy ’ — I 'll say . |
| 2 | My own view is that it could , it be a great deal more than that , but this is within the , the erm , nationally prescribed requirements in terms of getting some consistency into local authority accounts . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's a great life being a professional athlete . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a great life . ’ |
| 5 | It 's a great life . |
| 6 | Oh it 's a great life , a , I think anyway . |
| 7 | It 's a great work of comparative sociology . |
| 8 | I think it 's a great idea . ’ |
| 9 | It 's a great idea ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We think it 's a great idea . ’ ’ |
| 11 | Patient John Lyon , 74 , who has a daily dose of half a pint of Guinness , said : ‘ It 's a great idea and takes the tension out of staying in hospital . ’ |
| 12 | Then Don Mini turned to Little Billy and said , ‘ Swan thinks it 's a great idea . |
| 13 | Pace the unjustified slur , naming 10 famous Belgians is easy , even if the Singing Nun , the Mannekin Pis and Hercule Poirot are declared ineligible ( and Jacques Brel counts five of most other countries ' famous people in our book ) — and there could just be another one soon , in the person of Finance Minister Philippe Maystadt , who could become the father of a whole new economics after his proposal that Belgium levy a robot tax on factory machines to get humans back to work : it 's a great idea , and why not take it further and ban construction machinery from the roads to get the shovels back into navvies ' hands — and no doubt computers can be included under the tax , so that in no time , in a dramatic return to Victorian values , while the Belgian economy may not actually start booming , the country will have the world 's biggest quill pen industry . |
| 14 | ‘ Now look , mate , I fink it 's a great idea , but yer got ta face facts , ’ he said kindly . |
| 15 | Yeah , that i , is precisely , it is n't the case with everyone , I mean , I think that what the girl was saying up there about the groups going round , it 's a great idea ! |
| 16 | ‘ I think it 's a great idea . ’ |
| 17 | It 's a great idea . ’ |
| 18 | Thank you for ‘ Observations ’ — it 's a great idea . |
| 19 | ‘ I know all about the TV show and it 's a great idea , so I 'm very , very happy about that . |
| 20 | Erm , like you had the discussion on the first one and said , well , yes , it 's all very well for you and yes it 's a great idea for you , but the rest of us do n't want it , and I think you 've got to do that . |
| 21 | They both say it 's a great idea and it attracts a lot of attention ! |
| 22 | If you find this comfortable , then it 's a great benefit for keeping out the spindrift when winter climbing . |
| 23 | Because there 's more patience than skill involved in stencilling , it 's a great technique for absolute beginners . |
| 24 | It 's a great technique and not nearly as difficult as you might think . |
| 25 | He added : ‘ Obviously it 's a great thrill to be top of the table with Rangers because I have n't been in this position before . |
| 26 | It 's a great chance for the 27-year-old to revive his career — and Halifax could make the move permanent if he shows his fearsome form of three seasons ago . |
| 27 | ‘ I realise the club is short of cash but it 's a great chance for me to gain an insight into management , ’ said Anderson . |
| 28 | ‘ I think it 's a great shirt . |
| 29 | It 's a great service and I 'm sure we 're going to do a lot of good for a lot of women , ’ says Amanda Ursell , a trained nutritionist on our panel . |
| 30 | For those just coming out onto the scene , it 's an established fact that many can come to terms with , but for those who have set patterns of sexual behaviour or who 've put themselves at risk in the past , it 's a great problem . |