Example sentences of "been a great [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been a great Victorian pile of a hospital there then , maybe still was unless they had demolished it , its chimney concealed inside a mock campanile . |
| 2 | There had been black bitterness , and there had been a great aching void for longer than she cared to remember now . |
| 3 | This would not matter so much if Pound had not been a great technical innovator in verse writing . |
| 4 | There has been a great black smudge all down the crag ever since … ’ . |
| 5 | Trading forecasts On this there does not , at least , seem to have been a great internal dispute . |
| 6 | There has been a great national exercise , co-ordinated by the careers service nationally and by my Department , to establish the true position . |
| 7 | We had a collection of cars , mostly rather old , but here was an example of what had once been a great cultural status symbol . |
| 8 | Eating in Greece has always been a great social occasion — it 's normal to begin with meze , sharing from small plates of typically Greek food — taramasalata , tzatziki , dolmades , kalamari and Greek salad and it 's customary to go into the kitchen to choose your main course . |