Example sentences of "been great " in BNC.

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1 Significantly it is in Kenya where both experience and investment in curriculum development have been greatest over the past fifteen years that policies towards devolution in curriculum implementation are furthest advanced .
2 It must also be said of Poland that its society has been most resistant to Communist influence and , that of all East European countries , the gap between the state and its society has been greatest The LWP has not gone out of its way to act as the arbiter of events ; rather , it has had this role thrust upon it by Party factionalism and weakness .
3 The European moves towards 1992 have had similar consequences on a regional scale in those sectors , like defence , pharmaceuticals and informatics , where the barriers of regulation and restrictive public purchasing has been greatest .
4 Its impact has been greatest in personal injuries litigation and matrimonial proceedings and in the defence of those charged with serious criminal offences .
5 Moreover that growth has been greatest where the decline in manufacturing employment has been least — that is , in the regions of ‘ the south ’ .
6 All three are inter-related , however , since State fiscal problems are in general greatest in the South , where discrimination against blacks has traditionally been greatest , and where the electoral situation for long favoured one party .
7 Indeed , it was on those occasions when Branson had invested in projects not obviously related to the pop milieu that the losses had been greatest ; clothes , restaurants , Event magazine .
8 Finally , the decrease has been greatest among full-time male workers .
9 It is through her writings that her influence has been greatest .
10 Although all SADCC member states have borne some burden , the economic damage and human casualties have been greatest in Angola and Mozambique .
11 and peasant antagonism ought to have been greatest and therefore you on the face of it it seems surprising does n't it that land reforms did n't take place immediately , or they were n't attempting land reform to take place immediately .
12 Investment in Europe could also rise if the yen stays strong , since the yen 's appreciation has been greatest against European currencies , Robert Feldman , economist at Salomon Brothers Asia , said .
13 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 .
14 Most often the support band are terrible , but they could have been great and they could have been you .
15 That has all been great fun .
16 The spending may have been great but it was not being devoted to thousands upon thousands of undeserving and feckless claimants .
17 The vole prefers slow-moving rivers , pools and marshy areas with some deep water whose level changes little , but there have been great changes to Britain 's wetlands during the past 40 years as a result of agricultural intensification .
18 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 .
19 ‘ Obviously I 'm hopeful of getting to Sweden and it 's been great to be involved with the England squad . ’
20 Since 1979 , there have been great improvements in the health of the nation .
21 I know the strain has been great because operating as you do entails the most constant vigilance and cunning which no other troops are called upon to display . ’
22 The 1966 inquiry plodded its way through an incredible number of excuses as to why Blake had not also been transferred and concluded that if Blake had been moved , and the child murderer left at Wormwood Scrubs had then escaped ( rather than Blake ) , there would have been great public criticism .
23 The interval between her leaving Edgcote and meeting Freemantle can not have been great , a matter of months at most , unless Leapor 's depression was vastly disproportionate to the space in which she describes it .
24 The overall effect on administrators and senior figures generally , as far as concerns their reading habits and the amount they read , has been great .
25 Nick was so thrilled with my caddying that he told everyone on television in an interview that ‘ Andy Prodger has been great .
26 The losses at the Battle of Sagrajas had been great and not even the addition of El Cid 's men could make it anything like as strong as it had been before the coming of Yusuf .
27 Since that time I think that there has been great progress towards reconciliation and this has largely flowed from common sense and from a better understanding of the facts .
28 His talents may not have been great but his importance lies in his using them all to express in painting his romantic vision .
29 It had been great fun , much more so than he had anticipated .
30 From the 11th century , such events had been popular for about 500 years but over the centuries there had been great changes to the ways in which they had been conducted .
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