Example sentences of "a great [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conference itself was hailed as a great success for Tom Clarke , shadow Scottish secretary . |
| 2 | Organised by Pat Palmer and entered with great gusto by teams from classes , the event was great fun to watch and a great success for Age Concern , Action Research for the Crippled Child and the Medau Society who shared the proceeds . |
| 3 | A luncheon held at ‘ Langton ’ proved a great success for Tunbridge Wells branch . |
| 4 | In the fifty first minute , a delightful move with Magilton setting up a great chance for Paul Simpson , but Stowell blocked his effort . |
| 5 | ‘ And then one night , ’ said Raynor , his eyes unreadable now , ‘ one night there was a great banquet for Samain , and that was the night that Medoc first came to Tara . |
| 6 | Financially it is a great asset for Tain , and with this sort of money I hope the council will take a serious look at the town 's lack of leisure provision , ’ he added . |
| 7 | MICHAEL Hopper topped a great night for North-East boxing when he thumped out a tremendous win in the ABA English semi-finals at Bletchley . |
| 8 | He bad a good platform manner and a great capacity for work but he was an inveterate intriguer . |
| 9 | Sally had a great capacity for love and a down-to-earth quality that Harriet presumed was a throw-back to her early upbringing and which had been honed and tested in the fire when she had given birth to — and kept — an illegitimate son in the days when illegitimacy was still a scandal . |
| 10 | Tilda cared nothing for the future , and had , as a result , a great capacity for happiness . |
| 11 | He was touchingly devoted to the beautiful Nildro-hain ; and he evidently had moods of gaiety and a great capacity for enjoyment . |
| 12 | He had a great capacity for friendship , though his demands upon it were sometimes heavy . |
| 13 | Thirdly , the Act clearly adopts as the test of danger either ‘ the greater risk of harm ’ or ‘ the risk of greater harm ’ : an elephant may not in fact be very likely to get out of control and do damage , but if it does so , its bulk gives it a great capacity for harm . |
| 14 | Babies are born with a sense of fairness , justice , morality , and a great capacity for kindness and forbearance , and it is sheer disappointment in the character and nature of parent and world that changes this eager infant into a murderous teenager . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The homage sworn by Raymond of Toulouse was a great triumph for Henry II , but did Eleanor see it in that light ? |
| 17 | ‘ But it has been a great triumph for Hochhauser , Willi . |
| 18 | It was a great triumph for Gardiner , a Scot who learnt his rowing at Oxford and was brought into the crew in last month of training , while Cal Maclennan , in his third Boat Race , and Peter Bridge , in his second , were outstanding . |
| 19 | I called him into my office , handed my memo to him and immodestly said , ‘ Here 's a great idea for Saturday afternoons . |
| 20 | The July Sales are a great idea for Christmas shopping particularly in slashed-price discontinued toiletries and I found several nice wee stocking fillers for Derek in the Novelty line and looked in vain for a birthday card for our Joy 's eldest but there was nothing suitable . |
| 21 | A great longing for Toby seized me . |
| 22 | It dawned upon Ruth with some surprise that the outing was to be a great treat for Miss Beard , and that in spite of all her high-faluting talk , not many of those came her way . |
| 23 | This is a great exercise for flexibility . |
| 24 | It would be a great way for England 's most capped flanker to bow out . |
| 25 | And it 's a great way for Silvia and your brother to pay me back for trying to interfere in their sordid little love-affair . |
| 26 | It is reshowing EastEnders , Dallas , Neighbours , Dr Who , Bergerac , 'Allo 'Allo and other gems from the BBC and Thames archives , and is a great hope for BBC income . |
| 27 | Sir Bartle Frere , the Governor of Bombay in the 1860s and a great enthusiast for railways , pointed out to his London masters that for these reasons the Indian station required three or four times more space than its British counterpart . |
| 28 | A great enthusiast for Impressionism , he both conceived the idea of the Museum and gave the FFr120 million needed for its realisation through the Terra Foundation for the Arts . |
| 29 | In fact , I have always thought it would make a great spectacle for television if performed in surf with three contestants confined to a small area , all trying to knock each other of their boards . |
| 30 | When he was younger he 'd write songs about a laughing gnome , or a song about a laughing policeman , and I think it was a great outlet for David because he could almost blow his character out of all proportion and be able to pretend whatever he wanted to pretend , which is what actors and pop stars do . |