Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] great " in BNC.

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1 That has all been great fun .
2 A few of these associations have been providing homes in rural locations , and although individually their impact has not been great , collectively it is growing .
3 However , national approval has tended in the past to be given without much discussion , in large part because the number of aspirants for candidatures has not been great : the party has often had to adopt whoever was willing to stand .
4 The sweeping has not been great yet and perhaps it is time that some ball ‘ off the top ’ is considered as an option .
5 she has always been great , but she made a tremendous jump when she started recording decent songs instead of versions of old R'n' B tracks .
6 jack Carey , who was an explorer as well as a student of Oriental languages , had promised to take them to the most remote corners of the earth some day , and they had often pictured themselves camping in the silent desert , or following some ancient track to a ruined city which had once been great .
7 Her curiosity had never been great , and without nourishment or stimulation it had shrivelled .
8 Anyway , my father and his theatrical consortium have always been great fans of Trumpton .
9 When we think of Callas , we think of an incredible musician with an incredibly strong dramatic gift , but there have also been great voices in history and there are some orchestras which are successful with your understanding , at least , because they have this collective voice which impresses you immediately .
10 Some of them are , of course , capital cities , comparable only to London , but most of the others ( we tend to forget ) have equally been great urban centres for many hundreds of years , while Britain 's biggest cities are mostly products of the Industrial Revolution .
11 " Sorry I have n't been great company .
12 There have indeed been great changes to public health practice over the past 20 years .
13 It 's certainly been great fun with Durham and they are working wonders .
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