Example sentences of "been great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That has all been great fun . |
| 2 | It had been great fun , much more so than he had anticipated . |
| 3 | After a year of following the Hip and Thigh Diet combined with a sensible exercise programme , which I hasten to add has been great fun , I have managed to reduce my body weight by almost a third and in the process become fit and healthy . |
| 4 | It 's certainly been great fun with Durham and they are working wonders . |
| 5 | It had been great fun . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ It 's been great fun . |
| 7 | " Sorry I have n't been great company . |
| 8 | Once again there 's been great emphasis on cash maintenance . |
| 9 | Within this , there has been great emphasis on attaining detailed ( often numerical ) standards . |
| 10 | I just find such people strange though I admit some , like Marlowe , have been great friends . |
| 11 | At first , there had been great enthusiasm over the Collector 's decision to suppress the rights of property in the food that was to have been auctioned and to give a share to everybody . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There has been great progress in recent years in this quest , but its attainment is still thought to be decades away and the cost effectiveness of this research is being increasingly questioned . |
| 14 | But he noted that there had been great differences over the issue of securing international guarantees for the zone , and concluded that the practical realisation of the zone idea was a long-term task . |
| 15 | Ever since the days of the Roman Empire the Italians have been great builders . |
| 16 | There have been great deeds in Barcelona , like that eighth athletics gold for Carl Lewis , the hurdles world record by Kevin Young , the three Kenyans who swept up the steeplechase medals . |
| 17 | Since 1979 , there have been great improvements in the health of the nation . |
| 18 | There 's been great activity in the closed season , but the Oxford team , the Cheetahs are hungry to reproduce the form of the end of last season straight away , and win the national league . |
| 19 | Cynics also believed he was taking a great risk when he cast Jason Donovan and Phillip Schofield in Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , but both have been great successes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Both the Marxist and the Eliasian approaches , on the other hand , although implying that there may have been great changes in sexual behaviour , fall short of actually saying so . |
| 23 | There have indeed been great changes to public health practice over the past 20 years . |
| 24 | In the Somerset Levels there have been great changes since the Roman period ( Fig.48 ) . |
| 25 | The implementation of reform and change have , according to Sir Thomas , been significant but he admits there have been great difficulties over the years getting the PR message over . |
| 26 | When Ma had come home from London with her there 'd been great excitement , and Edward and his brother Billy had looked at the mite as if she were a fairy found among the budding snowdrops . |
| 27 | Only last Friday there had been great excitement over Janice 's eighth birthday party . |
| 28 | There had been great difficulty raising the £40,000 contribution from the unions . |
| 29 | However , despite a varied programme there has been great difficulty in gathering support for the other functions and indeed the last one had to be cancelled . |
| 30 | There has been great agitation about the fate of professional footballers a cause close to the heart of my Hon. Friend the Member for Cunninghame , North , and indeed of great interest to all of us who are football fans . |