Example sentences of "had [adv] been a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a personal level the visit had obviously been a great success , but Napoleon III came away without any specific extension of the Entente and he left the British Ministers unconvinced of his desire for peace and stability in Europe . |
| 2 | His territorial reordering of the 1470s had apparently been a great success , creating a nexus of trusted associates prepared to work in the crown 's interests , while those outside the charmed circle seemed , by the end of the decade , to have acquiesced in their exclusion . |
| 3 | His territorial reordering of the 1470s had apparently been a great success , creating a nexus of trusted associates prepared to work in the crown 's interests , while those outside the charmed circle seemed , by the end of the decade , to have acquiesced in their exclusion . |
| 4 | This would not matter so much if Pound had not been a great technical innovator in verse writing . |
| 5 | He had been out and was coming in , although the way he walked suggested that going out had not been a great success , and that not much awaited him at home . |
| 6 | David had always been a great fashion person as well . |
| 7 | The cliffs which had proved so difficult bordered a valley a mile or more across , the bed of what had once been a great , meandering river . |
| 8 | We had a collection of cars , mostly rather old , but here was an example of what had once been a great cultural status symbol . |
| 9 | The time difference between London and Mexico City is six hours , and because we had been travelling with the sun , it was still quite high in the sky as we descended into the sepia haze that hung over the whole flat expanse of what had once been a great lake . |
| 10 | Although there had clearly been a great deal of bumping and brawling , Aboyeur 's jockey Edwin Piper declared on unsaddling that he had would not object . |
| 11 | By 1989 InterCity director Dr john Prideaux was reassuring his customers that it was wrong to regard the APT as a failure ; it had indeed been a great design success ! |
| 12 | An account to substantiate his claims showed that there had indeed been a great output with £8,000 paid in Royalty over the last 17 years of operation . |
| 13 | Puzzled , for Dermot had never been a great correspondent , Kelly read : |
| 14 | There had never been a great deal of money , but no one had ever gone hungry and the feelings of warmth and love between the members of the family had more than made up for the lack of luxuries . |
| 15 | He had never been a great wine drinker , but on every visit to the Mayfair Hotel in London ( which he used often ) he was presented with a complimentary bottle of wine . |