Example sentences of "[noun] had [been] [det] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ By the way , ’ she began , hardly able to credit that , when earlier that morning her car had been such a concern to her , great expanses of time should now elapse without her giving it so much as a thought , ‘ could you tell me the name of the garage where my car — ’ |
| 2 | The house in Mouncy Street had been such a place . |
| 3 | The 1951 Stratford season had been such a success , it would have been foolish to have followed it with any lesser thing . |
| 4 | The kiss had been such a butterfly of a thing that she did not reject it , and when he bent and kissed her cheek she did not reject that either . |
| 5 | After a while I thought that as Dateline had been such a success the first time why not have some fun and do it again ? |
| 6 | He remembered how he had been taken by force from his home in the Lithuanian village of Akmeyon when he was sixteen ; how he was beaten and spat upon by the officers because he was a Jew ; how he was forced to eat treif , and how his life in the regiment had been such a hell that he decided to desert . |
| 7 | A regular visitor to Upper Dean Terrace was my grandmother 's old cook , Bessie , whose chicken cream and queen of puddings had been such a highlight of Nairn holidays , and who was now living in retirement in nearby Learmonth Terrace . |
| 8 | He remained in detention during the rebellion but stated in a letter published in the press that he had been responsible for it , a claim which was interpreted more as a dramatic personal gesture than a statement of fact ; earlier reports stated that the rebellion had been such a surprise to him that he had requested a pistol in order to shoot himself . |
| 9 | Boy George was desperate to meet Yoko , he would have done almost anything to be on with her , and Yoko liked the idea of meeting John Cleese because John Lennon had been such a Monty Python fan . |