Example sentences of "was a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a great thrill to ride Docklands Express and he jumped superbly . |
| 2 | It was a great thrill for me to beat Yevgeniev and important for me that he was there . |
| 3 | Then quietly the butler would give us the down ; and we used to slip in the stairs and look over the banisters and see all the ladies going into the dining-room — which was a great thrill . |
| 4 | Robbo 's challenge was a great spur to me . |
| 5 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 6 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 7 | IT WAS a great delight to all when the Smallholder came into his own against Morton Westlake . |
| 8 | Mr Mellor was a great individualist , always putting on a good performance for the cameras , but he put himself before the Cabinet team . |
| 9 | As Ackroyd 's ventriloquised Wilde makes clear , Wilde was a great exaggerator and , like his friend Whitman , a great contradictor of himself ; and he is certainly a great source of dualistic formulations , in all their slippery bliss . |
| 10 | One of them was a great diarist . |
| 11 | There was a great expansion in the nineteenth century with the coming of power-driven mills , and a corresponding growth in their parent townships . |
| 12 | Moreover , following the Second World War , there was a great expansion of Russian studies in the West — in the USA , Britain , France , Germany , and rather later , in Israel and Japan . |
| 13 | These quandaries can only be overcome , I believe , by remembering how the dinosaur species emerged , and how it died off in relays , and that there was a great diversity of size . |
| 14 | Demons and angels flew through the air ; there were wonderful scene-changes ; there was a great storm in Erminia and at the end of Sant' Alessio a great cloud descended and then opened to reveal the glory of Paradise . |
| 15 | I think it was a great relief for him to think that Tony DeFries would deal with things and all he had to do was deal with his artistry . |
| 16 | It was a great relief that they would no longer have to scheme some way of getting Anna out , at the right moment , while he himself was touring somewhere . |
| 17 | It was a great relief . |
| 18 | I must say it was a great relief not to have to try to understand it all from books . |
| 19 | Knowing that he was unquestionably going to die , and not knowing how or when , had been a strain , and the fact that it had been so much easier for him than might have been the case was a great relief . |
| 20 | He was both courageous and physically attractive , but deranged , and it was a great relief even to his associates when he left Scotland to die a pauper in Naples . |
| 21 | In fact , it was a great relief . ’ |
| 22 | It was a great relief . |
| 23 | But every little detail seemed crucial and it was something I struggled with all the way through , but knowing that Cathy , Joan and I were all on the same wavelength and felt the same level of commitment was a great relief . |
| 24 | The thought swam into her mind out of nowhere and she felt vaguely guilty when she realised it was a great relief to have this excuse . |
| 25 | It was a great relief therefore to hear the sound of a passing car , its speed assuring her that the main road was in front of her . |
| 26 | It was a great relief to him when she stumbled in through the door in a flurry of snow and he set to and made a cup of tea to warm her . |
| 27 | The goal was a great relief , but alas West Ham returned to stifling the game , sitting back on our 1–0 lead like an Alice In Wonderland Arsenal . |
| 28 | Still , the final whistle was a great relief . |
| 29 | It was a great relief when she arrived at Lomond View to discover that the only person there was Inge , looking rosy-cheeked and happy after her few days ' holiday . |
| 30 | That he let her go , and that she was free of him so easily was a great relief , but she was shaken from the unwanted experience , and as he swiftly went on his way she turned round — but only to collide with someone else . |