Example sentences of "been a great [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | My last telephone call was to the head of Oatridge agricultural college , which has been a great help to the agricultural community in Scotland . |
| 3 | Lois adds : ‘ Dad 's been a great help to me . |
| 4 | Yeah , cos he 's been a great help to me ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ She was a very lovely girl and it 's been a great shock to us all , ’ agreed Melissa . |
| 9 | The defence counsel , Robert Henderson , QC , said that Mr Buckley 's death had been a great shock to Sutherland who had been very lucky to escape with his life . |
| 10 | Those limitations had been a great attraction to Anna , when they first met . |
| 11 | Certainly the trouble in Yugoslavia has been a great surprise to many . |
| 12 | Ivan Lendl has been a great credit to the game which he has played with distinction for so long . |
| 13 | Joe — finishing his Bournemouth shows last night before a national tour — added : God has been a great solace to me , plus the love of my fans . ’ |
| 14 | Said Anderson : ‘ He has been a great fillip to us not just with his excellent performances on the field , but throughout the club . |
| 15 | ( She also taught the social secretary to play the piano , but he was not an apt pupil and must have been a great disappointment to her . ) |
| 16 | Nothing has gone right for Armiger or Tenby — remember him — and although Commander in Chief won two Derbys , the fact that Cecil 's more exposed two-year-olds failed to blossom must have been a great disappointment to him . |
| 17 | Nothing has gone right for Armiger or Tenby — remember him — and although Commander in Chief won two Derbys , the fact that Cecil 's more exposed two-year-olds failed to blossom must have been a great disappointment to him . |
| 18 | This has always been a great mystery to me because I remember seeing photographs of my father in hospital uniform wearing sergeant 's stripes ( which I understand was the practice then ) and later , after the war , he was a corporal . |
| 19 | It has been a great joy to me that we have remained a very close family . |
| 20 | I can see I have been a great burden to you . |
| 21 | One of the craft was in a mighty hurry when he set Judas for Jesus at John vi.67 , as happened in 1609 ; and so was his descendant in 1653 when , at Corinthians vi.9 , he pronounced that ‘ the unrighteous shall inherit the kingdom of God ’ , which must have been a great comfort to a considerable number of citizens under the Commonwealth . |
| 22 | It 's no good putting it off any longer though he 's been a great comfort to me , mind . ’ |
| 23 | Over the years her religion had been a great comfort to her . |
| 24 | If we do , we now have a model and can say that he and his family have been through it and have borne it with great fortitude , resilience and courage — as has been said , only through their deep religious faith — and that that has been a great lesson to us all . |
| 25 | Neil Johnston meets James Kelly , doyen of Ulster journalism ‘ It 's been a great game to be in … ’ |
| 26 | But it 's been a great game to be in , and it has given me some marvellous memories . |
| 27 | Under normal circumstances small favours of this type could be obtained by a politician with government connections , and it was only circumstances of a temporary nature which made job provision difficult for Scots politicians , such as the effective block which appeared in 1737 following the lynching of an officer of the City Guard of Edinburgh , when as a writer remarked , the hanging of Captain Porteous ‘ sticks vastly in his majesties stomach and has been a great detriment to our countray-men in getting any thing done ’ . |