Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adv] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On arriving he missed that female intimacy which had been so important a part of his life for many years . |
| 2 | Monday afternoon in the House of Commons had been as great a triumph for him ( although he had said practically nothing ) as it had been a disaster for Churchill . |
| 3 | Young Daniel 's death had been as great a tragedy , but had not taken him like this . |
| 4 | That had been as grievous a thing as seeing the head triumph ; that had caused the centuries of religious persecutions and wars . |
| 5 | Of course , she missed her family , but her father 's promotion to foreign correspondent had been too good a chance for him to miss . |
| 6 | True , he had struggled at first to satisfy his beautiful young bride ; he had been too long a bachelor and too set in his ways . |
| 7 | After Hugh 's dismissal in 1172 Louis VII kept the office vacant for some years : Hugh had been too great a man for it to be wise or safe to raise up a successor to him . |
| 8 | Perhaps that had been too personal a remark . |