Example sentences of "been a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Getting power out of the Honda NSR has never been a great problem though . |
| 2 | And my husband , although I 'm only very small and under five foot , my husband is thirteen stone and six foot two inches , so moving him about has been a great problem . |
| 3 | But Calatin 's banqueting hall and the house in the forest had wavered and grown dim — ‘ as if I am seeing it through water , ’ thought Fergus — and there had been a great heaviness within him so that it was difficult to breathe . |
| 4 | An account to substantiate his claims showed that there had indeed been a great output with £8,000 paid in Royalty over the last 17 years of operation . |
| 5 | Belonging to a small community has been a great asset . |
| 6 | The enthusiastic support of the influential Association of MBAs has also been a great asset . |
| 7 | Finally , the Gatwick Express service between London ( Victoria ) and Gatwick Airport was launched by InterCity in May 1984 and has been a great success . |
| 8 | Since it had been a great success when read aloud to ‘ our local club ’ , Tolkien had absolute confidence in submitting it to the publisher of The Hobbit , Stanley Unwin . |
| 9 | THE OPENING ceremony had been a great success . |
| 10 | His landscaping at Quernmore Park near Lancaster had been a great success , as was his probable design for Casterton Hall near Kirkby Lonsdale , which looks uncommonly like Leck . |
| 11 | At a personal level the visit had obviously been a great success , but Napoleon III came away without any specific extension of the Entente and he left the British Ministers unconvinced of his desire for peace and stability in Europe . |
| 12 | THE Brownies ' Hallowe'en party had been a great success Carol had enjoyed every minute of it . |
| 13 | THE CAUSE hamper campaign this Christmas has once again been a great success , thanks to the generosity of so many people in our diocese . |
| 14 | The visit should have been a great success for both the tall and the short mavericks of the respective alliances . |
| 15 | The small orchestra was ‘ feeble ’ , and Mozart wrote sadly to his wife that the concert had been a great success from the point of view of honour and glory , but a complete financial flop . |
| 16 | Kate said the evening had been a great success : it received plenty of local press coverage , the Rossendale Group increased its membership , and the Mayor agreed to donate £100 to Amnesty . |
| 17 | Deemed to have been a great success , the HAA indicated that this sort of event would become a regular part of their work — being an extension of their long declared task , to increase the fund of knowledge relating to the operation and display of historic aircraft . |
| 18 | And a handful of critics is beginning to wonder whether Ireland has not concentrated a little too hard on attracting inward investors at the expense of building a strong home-grown computer and electronics industry : after all , the policy of rallying all centres of higher education to turn out highly-skilled hardware and software engineers has been a great success , but should n't more of those people be working for Irish companies ? |
| 19 | His territorial reordering of the 1470s had apparently been a great success , creating a nexus of trusted associates prepared to work in the crown 's interests , while those outside the charmed circle seemed , by the end of the decade , to have acquiesced in their exclusion . |
| 20 | All three teachers were adamant that despite the lack of time for consultation , the lack of space and resources and other problems that had nothing to do with the curricular rationale behind the project , it had been a great success . |
| 21 | The privatization of industries , ranging from Britoil to British Gas , British Telecom and British Steel , has been a great success , partly because they have touched a public nerve , but also because the share issues have usually been made at below market value . |
| 22 | This had been a great success in both countries not only for the deaf but for their hearing fellow citizens , who made " learning sign language " the second most popular study after English in adult education . |
| 23 | ‘ Your interviews seem to have been a great success , ’ said Melissa casually as she helped herself to cheese . |
| 24 | He had been out and was coming in , although the way he walked suggested that going out had not been a great success , and that not much awaited him at home . |
| 25 | I very much agree with my hon. Friend that local management of schools has been a great success . |
| 26 | The business sponsorship incentive scheme has been a great success and I am giving further encouragement to sponsorship of the arts by increasing its budget by £1 million a year to £4.5 million . |
| 27 | The fiscal incentives for use of unleaded petrol have been a great success . |
| 28 | The centre has been a great success since opening its doors a year ago and looks forward to celebrating many more birthdays . |
| 29 | His territorial reordering of the 1470s had apparently been a great success , creating a nexus of trusted associates prepared to work in the crown 's interests , while those outside the charmed circle seemed , by the end of the decade , to have acquiesced in their exclusion . |
| 30 | JC : Kenneth Green had designed our production of Cosi fan tutte which had been a great success . |