Example sentences of "[verb] been [art] great [noun sg] " 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 | Train to Pakistan , a novel by Khushwant Singh , has been a great inspiration for me . |
| 3 | A major campaign was launched regarding the wearing of cycle helmets and there has been a great response , favourable response to this , cutting down enormously under a number of fatal accidents involving pedal cyclists . |
| 4 | In between there has been a great diversity of titles and two journals . |
| 5 | ‘ J.K. has been a great help — he knows so much about left-arm swing bowling and about playing in India . |
| 6 | ‘ Chris Hassell , the secretary , has been a great help . |
| 7 | My last telephone call was to the head of Oatridge agricultural college , which has been a great help to the agricultural community in Scotland . |
| 8 | It 's been a bit difficult because we are used to doing the things that choirs do , having music and hiding behind it , and of course getting the girls to be uninhibited has been a bit difficult , but they 've taken to it very well actually and having the costumes for today 's rehearsals has been a great help . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Seeing the parachutes back in the air has been a great morale booster for the base . |
| 11 | Joe — finishing his Bournemouth shows last night before a national tour — added : God has been a great solace to me , plus the love of my fans . ’ |
| 12 | Belonging to a small community has been a great asset . |
| 13 | This has been a great weekend , but it does n't mean anything . ’ |
| 14 | It has been a great triumph for France 's construction and agricultural engineers , a dazzling testimony to the industry and enterprise of a people who so often appear , to those who do not know them , to be in a perpetual state of political and economic chaos . |
| 15 | ‘ But it has been a great triumph for Hochhauser , Willi . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Playing in this competition has been a great springboard for me . ’ |
| 18 | Finally , the Gatwick Express service between London ( Victoria ) and Gatwick Airport was launched by InterCity in May 1984 and has been a great success . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I very much agree with my hon. Friend that local management of schools has been a great success . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The centre has been a great success since opening its doors a year ago and looks forward to celebrating many more birthdays . |
| 24 | ‘ The scheme has been a great success — so much so we have decided to continue it , ’ he said . |
| 25 | DUNE , Christian Dior 's latest perfume , has been a great success . |
| 26 | A DIGITAL counting system to prevent overcrowding at Perry 's Brasserie in Beaumont Street , Darlington has been a great success , staff said yesterday The scheme was introduced last month after environmental health inspectors made a surprise visit and found about 930 people inside the capacity is 725 . |
| 27 | Since then single malt has been a great success , but Mr Sandy feels that the Treasury is exploiting it : ‘ Of course we were glad that the Chancellor decided not to increase excise on whisky , but last week 's Budget has not made things right . |
| 28 | With a trading profit for C&P last year of £473 million on sales of £4.2 billion [ 9 per cent up on 1986 ] , there can now be no doubt that the move has been a great success and that the thinking behind it was sound . |
| 29 | To have lived through three-quarters of the 20th century — from 1908 to the mid-80s in my case — has been a great privilege . |
| 30 | 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 . |