Example sentences of "[pos pn] great [noun] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the intervening years one of my great laments has been my inability to achieve solitude , as everywhere I can now go , so can everyone else . |
| 2 | Civil rights organisations have long criticised the league for not having a black head coach despite the fact that many of its greatest players have been black . |
| 3 | One of her greatest successes has been Manfred Karge 's one-woman play Man to Man , in which she played a woman pretending to be a man . |
| 4 | Five years ago people might have thought her greatest contribution had been to the British fashion industry . |
| 5 | Mr Brown 's supporters reel off a list of bills that the Speaker has influenced ; but even they have to admit that many of his greatest victories have been stopping ‘ evil ’ Republican laws rather than creating good Democratic ones . |
| 6 | His greatest wall had been built when Mr Fractor came to look for a book on logarithms . |
| 7 | His great Council had been held at Michaelmas 1102 ; by April of the following year he was once more abroad expecting a speedy return , but , as we have seen , he did not return until the end of 1106 . |
| 8 | Arguedas , however , was faced with the thorny problem of translating into the alien medium of Spanish the sensibility of a people which expresses itself in Quechua , and his great achievement has been to evolve a style which captures the rhythm and flavour of Quechua to convey the spiritual world of the Andean Indians . |
| 9 | He described Taylor 's ‘ gaiety and richness of fancy ’ , and how his great learning had been coupled with humility and extraordinary piety and kindness to all in need . |
| 10 | Our greatest asset had been a copy of The Scotsman , originally bought to give us wise counsel on the weather . |
| 11 | I think our union has changed dramatically over the last few years , not to the point that our great history has been lost , but we have adapted to the world in which we live . |