Example sentences of "death have [been] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our daughter wanted me ( Dave ) to preach at the funeral because she said , ‘ I do n't want my brother 's death to have been a total loss . |
| 2 | Death had been a merciful release for him . |
| 3 | The defence counsel , Robert Henderson , QC , said that Mr Buckley 's death had been a great shock to Sutherland who had been very lucky to escape with his life . |
| 4 | Mortimer had betrayed trust of a different kind , in a very different way … after all , her mother 's death had been a tragic stroke of fate . |
| 5 | For a moment Merrill 's grey eyes clouded ; winding up Elise 's affairs after her death had been a painful business , but there was no one else to do it . |