Example sentences of "[det] [verb] be [art] great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we do , we now have a model and can say that he and his family have been through it and have borne it with great fortitude , resilience and courage — as has been said , only through their deep religious faith — and that that has been a great lesson to us all . |
| 2 | This has been a great weekend , but it does n't mean anything . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I hope the Lord will forgive me but this has been a great experience and you would n't know Mabel , she is brown in the sun here , it is very nice , but I do n't like the dust . |
| 5 | Occupational Health Physician , Dr Gordon Morris said : ‘ This has been a great effort by Irene . |
| 6 | ‘ This has been a great evening , ’ she said . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Here for all to see was the great lesson of World War I : the machine-gun made direct attack too costly even to contemplate . |
| 10 | That had been a great adventure , but it was nothing to his travels . |
| 11 | That had been a great evening . |
| 12 | So , so that 's been a great improvement I think , erm in recent years and , and in the erm early seventies we , we also went into the business of providing equipment that could be left at rescues , on site , you know it was always tying up a fire engine by taking it there and , and being tied up so we provided these things which we call demountable equipment , which we commonly call the pods and erm |