Example sentences of "have [been] a happy " in BNC.
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| 1 | This should have been a happy and holy occasion but the expressions on the faces looking up at him — Denis , Hana , Uncle Mick , Carmella , now pale and shaken , even poor Joey — told him more than any words how empty the action was . |
| 2 | With a more interfering Prime Minister and a more suspicious Foreign Secretary it would not have been a happy arrangement . |
| 3 | James Pegg should have been a happy man , for he was with Alfred and unaccompanied by Alice . |
| 4 | If it also represented self-confidence , Ken would have been a happy man . |
| 5 | It seems to have been a happy marriage and Ximena bore Rodrigo two daughters . |
| 6 | 'As you all know , this was to have been a happy occasion , an opportunity for members old and new to join together and indulge ourselves with history in pleasant surroundings , linked in our common interest by the traditions of the Circle . |
| 7 | It had been a happy marriage , in spite of the difference in their ages . |