Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adj] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend of mine in Houston , who has followed the orchestra since the 1940s , explained why Eschenbach has been such a great success in Houston . |
| 2 | That Darren 's car has been such a loyal servant is all the more surprising when you consider that it spent its first 50,000 miles in the hands of a company rep and was then driven for 22,000 miles by a builder — two occupations hardly renowned for lavishing care and attention on cars . |
| 3 | I ask the Chancellor to explain why there has been such a humiliating U-turn by the Prime Minister . |
| 4 | Now I ask the Chancellor to explain why there has been such a humiliating U-turn by the Prime Minister ; herself the inventor of the Madrid conditions , and now their arch destroyer . |
| 5 | Over the past two years , she pointed out , Saatchi had purchased major works by many of those British painters whose rise to prominence has been such a striking feature of recent years : Saatchi has bought work by , among others , Frank Auerbach , Lucian Freud , Leon Kossoff and Howard Hodgkin . |
| 6 | If we relate this to the changes in the Labrador Sea we see ( Fig. 2 a ) that the only time there has been such a long period with little or no change in salinity , followed by a sudden marked freshening , was the period leading up to the renewal in 1972 . |
| 7 | ‘ It has been such a long time ! |
| 8 | He said : ‘ It has been such a long time coming I had almost given up hope . |
| 9 | A common tendency , reflecting perhaps a consciousness of the taboo on didacticism which has been such a strong feature of recent primary education , was for some teachers to ask questions rather than make statements or give instructions . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , World Cup hero Alan Ball has been such a big hit with Graham Taylor that he could soon be named as England 's permanent coach . |
| 11 | This is why there has been such a rapid growth of organic foods and mineral waters . |
| 12 | No it , it 's because they are nice round amounts , one twenty five is has been such a derisory amount it , it 's it really has . |
| 13 | Further , the fact that there has been such a steep rise in the number of divorces , combined with a fairly high rate of remarriage , means that a rising proportion of all marriages are of people marrying for at least the second time . |
| 14 | ‘ Confidence ’ , indeed , has been such a marked characteristic of the public school boy that many boys have been sent to public schools mainly to acquire it . |
| 15 | ‘ This has been such a dreadful shock for the community . |
| 16 | It is all too clear why there has been such an unremitting broadside from Ministers against our tax and national insurance proposals . |
| 17 | The original environment of human evolutionary adaptedness can not be clearly defined because our evolution has been such an extraordinary progression of expansive diversifications in adapting to an immense range of environments . |
| 18 | Paul 's death has been such an appalling shock . |
| 19 | As such they are seen as antithetical to the work ethic which has been such an integral part of Thatcherite political rhetoric . |
| 20 | There has been such an enormous increase in mobility in work and recreation . |
| 21 | What is this free will that we say is such a vital part of our lives ? |
| 22 | and then erm , we drove , er then we walked through this park , which was lovely , it had squirrels running all round the place and pigeons and everything , it was gorgeous , and , and because it , it 'd been such a gorgeous day , it 's just that my fucking nose is cold . |
| 23 | ‘ He 'd been ill a long time . |
| 24 | ‘ Give him the damn jacket and stop being such a petty bitch . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd have thought being such an efficient secretary she would have worked somewhere more — ’ he stopped . |
| 26 | As she herself says : ‘ Teaching is such an obvious choice if you want to be at home most ofthe time your children are ’ . |
| 27 | I suppose looking back on what I said at the time it was true and I did really love you and I still do but now it 's not sexual or romantic , it was n't sexual then because my mind was too pure and partly because you were such a huge chunk of my life , one seventh , and I think I always will do n't know what that 's su oh it 's love you I suppose for you it must have been such a small thing and at fifteen stroke sixteen you can probably only just remember me I was fourteen actually I was the middle son who was n't properly blond unlike the brothers and hung around near you far too much . |
| 28 | How could he have been such a poor judge of character ? |
| 29 | It could have been such a futile act . |
| 30 | He was beginning to think it would not have been such a bad thing if he had had an affair with Eleanor . |