Example sentences of "been a great [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Calatin 's banqueting hall and the house in the forest had wavered and grown dim — ‘ as if I am seeing it through water , ’ thought Fergus — and there had been a great heaviness within him so that it was difficult to breathe . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The visit should have been a great success for both the tall and the short mavericks of the respective alliances . |
| 4 | The centre has been a great success since opening its doors a year ago and looks forward to celebrating many more birthdays . |
| 5 | The key-fobs sent to each individual member and Group secretary during 1979 have been a great success with many people writing in to the office expressing their appreciation ; it is hoped to produce a further token during out 30th anniversary year . |
| 6 | Scotland coach Allan Hosie said the Pacific tour had been a great success considering eight Scots were on the British Lions tour and other players were not able to make the trip . |
| 7 | This had been a great success in both countries not only for the deaf but for their hearing fellow citizens , who made " learning sign language " the second most popular study after English in adult education . |
| 8 | The small orchestra was ‘ feeble ’ , and Mozart wrote sadly to his wife that the concert had been a great success from the point of view of honour and glory , but a complete financial flop . |
| 9 | IT SHOULD have been a great year for Julie Walters . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mr Devlin said afterwards it had been a great day in Yarm 's history . |
| 12 | In between there has been a great diversity of titles and two journals . |
| 13 | Steve Kember is a Croydon lad and has always been a great favourite at his local Football League Club , for which he signed as an apprentice in 1963 and full professional in 1965 . |
| 14 | Your conductors ' competitions brought on some new talent , beginning with the Finnish conductor Okko Kamu , who won the first competition in 1969 ; and you 've been a great help to most of the new generation of top conductors — Abbado , Ozawa , and so on . |
| 15 | My last telephone call was to the head of Oatridge agricultural college , which has been a great help to the agricultural community in Scotland . |
| 16 | Lois adds : ‘ Dad 's been a great help to me . |
| 17 | Yeah , cos he 's been a great help to me ! |
| 18 | I can talk to her in a way I could n't before and she 's been a great help over the past year . |
| 19 | Tom had been a great help in advising him on the farming aspects and , of course , on the teaching . |
| 20 | Sadie Murray , of Irvine , who has worked at Digital for more than five years , said : ‘ It 's been a great worry over the last few weeks . |
| 21 | It has been a great triumph for France 's construction and agricultural engineers , a dazzling testimony to the industry and enterprise of a people who so often appear , to those who do not know them , to be in a perpetual state of political and economic chaos . |
| 22 | ‘ But it has been a great triumph for Hochhauser , Willi . |
| 23 | it had been a great patrol during which we had made a lot of new friends , carried out a great deal of work en route and broken into completely new territory for the cutters . |
| 24 | Train to Pakistan , a novel by Khushwant Singh , has been a great inspiration for me . |
| 25 | Gary Bennett ( centre back ) : Only five short of 300 appearances for Sunderland since signing from Cardiff for a bargain £80,000 , Bennett has been a great servant to the club . |
| 26 | Too often Kendall seems preoccupied with finding a place in the team for Alan Harper , and although he has been a great servant to the club over the years , Everton will only be a really good side when he is playing in the reserves , and I do not mean that as an insult to Alan . |
| 27 | ‘ Under Mick Newmarch , there has been a great refocusing on core activities and values , ’ says Mr Lawrence . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's been a great school for the temper . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The thinning out process has been a great shock to me , I had a higher opinion of working class thought — but it is that where the weakness lies , not in our efforts of propaganda . |