Example sentences of "been a great [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In between there has been a great diversity of titles and two journals . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Now there had been a great shortage of messages from heaven for a very long time . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He told us that during the January ‘ freeze-up ’ there had been a great influx of shelduck . |
| 8 | I have been a great fan of Martina 's since I was about 5 or 6 and I am now 15 going on 16 . |
| 9 | ‘ Gross exaggeration , ’ Fabia laughed , but could n't deny that she had been a great fan of the Czech composers , and still was . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There had been a great deal of tinkering but no overall review . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There has also been a great deal of adulation which is perhaps even more harmful for it generates mysticism . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There has been a great deal of crossing with the Charolais . |
| 18 | There has been a great deal of debate about the collection and use of these . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There has been a great deal of argument as to what a new enquirer needs to know before or immediately upon making a decision to follow Christ for that decision to be meaningful . |
| 22 | There had been a great deal of fussing tonight . |
| 23 | There had not been a meeting of the accident investigation division for fifteen years and there had been a great deal of development in the civil aviation scene in the intervening period , so a meeting was called in Montreal in January and February of that year . |
| 24 | He says there has been a great deal of interest shown in the firm because virtual reality is seen as an exciting new technology with a lot of potential . |
| 25 | The Navigation Acts were complicated and applying the regulations would have been harder if there had been a great deal of trade between the colonies , but in the seventeenth century most of the trade of each colony on the American mainland or in the West Indies was with England rather than with other colonies . |
| 26 | And although there has been a great deal of argument as to the cause , very few people would deny that Britain is in a state of decline . ’ |
| 27 | With foodstuffs , for example , there has been a great deal of trial and error over many millennia to determine whether a given animal or plant provides desirable food . |
| 28 | We could have what you English call ‘ fun ’ … and I do not think there has been a great deal of that commodity in your life so far . |
| 29 | There has , quite rightly , been a great deal of discussion at this conference about the opportunities and threats presented by the new media . |
| 30 | Following South Africa 's reintroduction there has been a great deal of discussion about whether the ban on Mike Gatting and his fellow ‘ rebel ’ tourists should be lifted . |