Example sentences of "a great [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevin makes a great run to the byline but his flick-back is missed in a goalmouth scramble by Malkin and John Aldridge before the keeper falls on the ball . |
| 2 | I was doing the Mujahadeen side for Life and one day I thought it would be a great story to be in Kabul when it fell , to see it from the Mujahadeen side . |
| 3 | The English writer Max Beerbohm spoke of how the music-halls had ‘ grown up with reference to nothing but the public 's own needs and aspirations ’ , of how the audience was ‘ the maker of the form ’ , and of how music-hall had always offered ‘ a great chance to any student of humanity at large ’ . |
| 4 | Peterborough substitute Peter Costello had a great chance to be an instant hero . |
| 5 | Maria Iñes was dumpy and talkative ; Maria Teresa was dark and very like João , though not quite so good looking , and Maria de Graça was taller , plainer , and so intent upon winning herself a place in Heaven that she had little conversation for anyone apart from Padre Jorge , an oily man with plump little hands and a great anxiety to be first to agree with Dom João in everything he said . |
| 6 | Councillor Gill Walton called the thriving pub ‘ a great asset to the town . ’ |
| 7 | The use of a widely understood and increasingly popular language which was neither identified with any one tribal group nor with the colonial power was a great asset to the nationalists . |
| 8 | I half expected him to " clown " a bit and not to be really interested , but he worked seriously and was a great asset to the group and to me in later discussion . |
| 9 | ‘ He could be a great asset to you , Stephen . |
| 10 | I 'm sure I can be a great asset to you , Stephen . |
| 11 | Halling had to wait until the 1939–45 war when a military bridge was erected and a road laid down and for a few years the people of Wouldham and Halling were able to move freely between the villages , which was a great asset to the people of Wouldham who used the bridge to get to work on this side of the river , but it was certainly the death knell of the ferry . |
| 12 | Miss Gilberd was a great asset to Burleigh . |
| 13 | ‘ This most modern building will be superbly equipped and will be a great asset to the whole of Fife . |
| 14 | Our national and county display teams are a great asset to the Society but need to be seen by a much wider public to promote our work ( indoors ) . |
| 15 | Did your experience at drama school come as a great surprise to you ? |
| 16 | The fact that manipulation was possible even in the almost unadulterated democracy of the congress came as a great surprise to most delegates . |
| 17 | Staring into the pretty face for a moment , Agnes nodded , saying , ‘ That 'll come as a great surprise to him . |
| 18 | Headmaster , Mr John O'Brien , commented : ‘ It was a great surprise to everyone in our team to hear of the win , and it certainly boosted morale and gave us lots of enjoyment in distributing the Wispa bars ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Did it come as a great surprise to you ? ’ |
| 20 | Certainly the trouble in Yugoslavia has been a great surprise to many . |
| 21 | She has found a number of old photographs that will come as a great surprise to me . |
| 22 | The move to merge did not come as a great surprise to the shareholders of either company . |
| 23 | That came as a great surprise to me I can tell you . |
| 24 | It came as a great surprise to me for some reason or other . |
| 25 | Mrs Fricker , for her part , was soon wise enough to discover ‘ a great aversion to leaving Bristol ’ . |
| 26 | In this case , the term does a great disservice to horses . |
| 27 | Many perform a great disservice to their members by failing to represent their interests independently and fairly . |
| 28 | It is a great disservice to the dedicated Scottish work force at Dounreay to try to tarnish their reputation by spreading alarmist claims with misinformation . |
| 29 | I have never heard anything so irresponsible and silly ; he does a great disservice to farmers , who rightly put their confidence in the Government , not him , to get it right . |
| 30 | There 's a great physicality to it , like when Lee 's bro Neil biffs away at the drums during ‘ Failure ’ . |