Example sentences of "[verb] been [prep] great [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Section 4 assistance to the industry has tripled from £1 million to nearly £33 million during the same period and has been of great advantage to the economy of Wales .
2 I am also grateful for the continuing support of the other Board members , particularly Michael Lunn who has been of great assistance to me in his capacity of Deputy Chairman .
3 Again the design of the sea-lion enclosure has been of great help in the management of these attractive marine mammals .
4 I am a family man , and mine has been of great help to me .
5 Although he admits having joined the authority as a complete outsider to the health service , his wide experience in the business world has been of great help .
6 ‘ He has been of great service to the Reich , ’ Himmler said .
7 Mary says now : ‘ Accessing my past lives has been of great benefit and I 'm sure that if I 'd gone to an ordinary therapist , nothing would have been sorted out . ’
8 Quiet and reserved he may have been , but his determination to succeed has been of great importance to his colleagues , both on and off the field .
9 The distinction between blending inheritance and particulate inheritance has been of great importance in the history of evolutionary ideas .
10 Over recent years , the parish has been of great interest archaeologically and excavations have revealed signs of occupation from neolithic man to the Middle Ages .
11 Sir , — It has been of great interest for me to read of small company audits in recent issues , and especially the approaches of other members .
12 ‘ This knowledge has been of great use .
13 Massett has been in great form all season , a fact not lost on his boss Joe Gibiliru .
14 For the next eighty years the argument that a tunnel under the silver streak of the Channel would pose a major security problem held sway , although a tunnel would have been of great advantage to Britain during the First World War .
15 The specimens you were so good as to send to me by Captain Lyon would have been a treasure had they arrived safe ; but his ship was taken by the French , so those were all lost , which is a great misfortune at this time , when they would have been of great service to me , in ascertaining the names of some plants which remain doubtful .
16 This , together with an appreciation of the steeper slopes , soil erosion and the local changes in level and aspect , make for a finer assessment of the subtler aspects which may have been of great significance to the original selector 's choice of site for the particular settlement under study .
17 No one knew why , though the Dutch gunner Colonel opined that the reason for the Prince 's hasty departure could not have been of great importance , or else the Duke would surely have left with the Prince .
18 In Harry 's case , a pre-retirement course could have been of great value in encouraging him to accept his impending retirement and helping him decide how to redirect his energies before he finished working .
19 These would have claimed much of Miller 's attention , but his expertise would have been in great demand over the cultivation of rare fruits .
20 Aaron 's mother , Lesley , 26 , said : ‘ He was very calm and must have been in great pain .
21 The Victorian historian Macaulay may well have been right when he stated that the Cornish , ‘ … a fierce , bold and athletic race , among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm ’ , were not so much concerned with the matter of religious principle on which Bishop Trelawney had made his stand ; Trelawney was ‘ … reverenced less as a ruler of the Church than as the head of an honourable house and the heir , through twenty descents , of ancestors who had been of great note before the Normans had set foot on English ground ’ .
22 The council convener , Robert Gough , who presented a plaque to the crew , said it was with regret that they said goodbye to the squadron , which had been of great comfort to people in difficulty on land and sea .
23 These two treatises gave classic expression to the opposing arguments about the eucharist , and they have been of great interest to theologians ever since .
24 We have been in great difficulty during the last thirty six hours over an alleged parachute operation which you have in view .
25 Sheffield have lacked consistency away from home , though former British champion Neil Evitts and Peter Carr have been in great form .
26 Traditional peg tiles have been in great demand since the storms of the past few years , so for Tenterden tile makers Spicer , the clouds had a silver lining .
27 Irvin and Martin 's assessment techniques have been in great demand abroad , even as the British science establishment closes ranks against it .
28 As the only such secondee in the UK , 's services have been in great demand .
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