Example sentences of "been [art] great [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around the turn of the century there had been the great triumvirate of Braid , Vardon , and Taylor but American dominance was established between the wars in the shape of Walter Hagen , who won the Open four times , and Gene Sarazen . |
| 2 | It had been the great achievement of the geologists to explain how , given enough time , the operation of exactly the same forces visible today could explain the enormous variety of what could be observed on the inanimate earth , past and present . |
| 3 | It had been bored or dug or had occurred naturally at an incline of about thirty degrees , so that all the way down into the mine , holding onto the rope , they had had purchase for their feet , had almost been able to walk don , though describing it thus made a dull and orthodox act of what had been the great adventure of their boyhood . |
| 4 | She had always been the great friend of Noreen 's and of Liam too in his young days . |
| 5 | She had told no one at all but it had been the great dream of her life to go to Spain , the real Spain . |
| 6 | It had once been the great hall of the castle , and is among the fairest buildings of the twelfth century which Britain possesses . |
| 7 | Bringing music to so many people has been the great satisfaction of my life . |
| 8 | Justification had been the great theme of the Reformers , especially of Martin Luther , and Ritschl aimed to restore it to the centre of theology by drawing out its consequences and implications in reconciliation , and opening up the force and meaning of Christianity from that centre . |
| 9 | This , the biggest single enclave in Sussex , not only demonstrates the continued dependence of the prototype works at Newbridge on immigrant workmen , but also implies that there had been no great pool of indigenous labour to draw on in the first place . |
| 10 | There would have been no great age of dinosaurs , but there would have been a flowering of mammals 130 million years earlier . |
| 11 | In between there has been a great diversity of titles and two journals . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , the very fact that the study of inequality is the central issue means that there have been a great variety of competing theories and concepts attempting to describe and explain it . |
| 13 | In times of hardship , as in the depression in the 1920 's and 30 's and rationing during the 1940 's and 50's , there has not always been a great choice of food . |
| 14 | Now there had been a great shortage of messages from heaven for a very long time . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 16 | Cnut is said to have defended the weak , exalted justice and suppressed injustice , and been a great friend of churchmen and a generous benefactor of churches . |
| 17 | He told us that during the January ‘ freeze-up ’ there had been a great influx of shelduck . |
| 18 | I have been a great fan of Martina 's since I was about 5 or 6 and I am now 15 going on 16 . |
| 19 | ‘ Gross exaggeration , ’ Fabia laughed , but could n't deny that she had been a great fan of the Czech composers , and still was . |
| 20 | The hair rig has been a great leveller of angling ability and because on most waters it is self-hooking this can often lead to complacency on the angler 's part . |
| 21 | And the language and idiom of the broadcasts has dated : ‘ There has been a great deal of soft soap talked about God for the last hundred years . |
| 22 | There has been a great deal of correspondence in the trade press and the media concerning the absence of top quality vine fruits from the shops . |
| 23 | There had been a great deal of tinkering but no overall review . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | There has also been a great deal of adulation which is perhaps even more harmful for it generates mysticism . |
| 26 | It is also claimed that there has been a great deal of harassment of Serbs and Montenegrins by Albanian nationalists , who hope to drive them out and establish an ‘ ethnically pure ’ Kosovo . |
| 27 | There has been a great deal of crossing with the Charolais . |
| 28 | There has been a great deal of debate about the collection and use of these . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Over the past ten years or so there has been a great deal of innovative thinking and impressive empirical investigation in our field and the theory 1 have been reviewing has played its part . |