Example sentences of "have been [art] great " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most individuals this has been no great loss , the system usually being considered a much more complicated procedure than simply walking into a showroom and purchasing whatever took your ( and your pocket 's ) fancy . |
| 2 | There has been no greater continuity in the economic power of railways than in tapping minerals . |
| 3 | Ivan Lendl has been a great credit to the game which he has played with distinction for so long . |
| 4 | Finally , the Gatwick Express service between London ( Victoria ) and Gatwick Airport was launched by InterCity in May 1984 and has been a great success . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Which is not to say that popular humour in the States is particularly nice : in recent years there has been a great demand for in-your-face racist , ethnic and misogynist stuff , as typified on the respectable side by Jackie Mason and on the unholy by Andrew Dice Clay . |
| 9 | Belonging to a small community has been a great asset . |
| 10 | Train to Pakistan , a novel by Khushwant Singh , has been a great inspiration for me . |
| 11 | It has been a great joy to me that we have remained a very close family . |
| 12 | The Channel Tunnel has been a great source of work , but not profits , in the last five years . |
| 13 | SIR — There has been a great play made of the impact of the minimum wage factor in the Social Chapter , but I have waited in vain for any reference to the other and more far reaching elements . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In recent years there has been a great increase in the use of active compounds . |
| 16 | How such behaviours have evolved in the face of selection favouring the maximization of individual reproduction has been a great and tantalizing mystery to evolutionary theorists . |
| 17 | Since about 1960 there has been a great increase in our knowledge of Maya history . |
| 18 | Teachers have had to adapt to the need to allow their pupils this kind of responsibility and self-propulsion , and for those who have been accustomed to telling their pupils in detail how to defeat the examiners on the fateful day , this has been a great change . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There has been a great deal of crossing with the Charolais . |
| 21 | To have lived through three-quarters of the 20th century — from 1908 to the mid-80s in my case — has been a great privilege . |
| 22 | There has been a great deal of debate about the collection and use of these . |
| 23 | ‘ J.K. has been a great help — he knows so much about left-arm swing bowling and about playing in India . |
| 24 | ‘ People say I must regret joining United , but I 'm still pleased I came because working for Dave has been a great learning experience , ’ said Marwood . |
| 25 | Playing in this competition has been a great springboard for me . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Under Mick Newmarch , there has been a great refocusing on core activities and values , ’ says Mr Lawrence . |
| 28 | It has been a great privilege to see how God has been at work in their lives and to be part of His plan for these men . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | For this reason there has been a great effort , over the years , to develop synthetic resin glues based , more or less , on the plastics which became popular in the 1930s . |