Example sentences of "have been [adv] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edwin , ’ she added , without moving her gaze , ‘ Louisa has been so great a comfort to me I can hardly bear this parting . ’ |
| 2 | Scattered later evidence suggested that Wealden superstitions died hard ; indeed , it may have been as potent a force in determining local beliefs as organised Christianity at least until this present century . |
| 3 | I am not certain of the date when the Navy finally abandoned the general use of hammocks , but to my mind it must have been as retrogressive a decision as that taken when abandoning the tot of ‘ Nelson 's blood ’ at 12 noon every day ! |
| 4 | Standing at the corner of Great Tower Street and Seething Lane , in the very shadow of the Tower of London , All Hallows must have been as impressive a building then as it is today : one of the oldest parish churches in the City , it has always had close links with the Tower itself , and was used as a place of burial for many an unfortunate wretch executed on the nearby scaffold . |
| 5 | Such an outcome would have been so great a blow to Edward II 's prestige that he decided to throw all his resources into reaching the garrison and destroying the besiegers . |
| 6 | It would not have been so light a thing to her if Hotspur had been among those dour-faced lordlings clattering through the streets of Shrewsbury with their shame . |
| 7 | ‘ The Russian Revolution ’ , Russell wrote in March 1917 , ‘ has stirred men 's imaginations everywhere and has made things possible which would have been quite impossible a week ago . ’ |
| 8 | Over-awed , converted both by her persuasion and her gold , Boult remains in prose ( any change would have been too great a transformation ) , yet agrees to help her . |
| 9 | " Well , no , he did n't actually , that would have been too good a story . |
| 10 | Had the plaintiff been shot , then this would have been too remote a consequence and causation not established . |
| 11 | ‘ This money would have been very useful a year ago after the Teebane massacre because two families lost their only breadwinners . ’ |
| 12 | In east Germany and Prussia , for example , the peasant was not quite so poor as elsewhere , but he was disciplined to the estate by legal devices which seem to have been as powerful a stimulus to rural emigration as poverty . |
| 13 | On arriving he missed that female intimacy which had been so important a part of his life for many years . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Young Daniel 's death had been as great a tragedy , but had not taken him like this . |
| 16 | That had been as grievous a thing as seeing the head triumph ; that had caused the centuries of religious persecutions and wars . |
| 17 | Of course , she missed her family , but her father 's promotion to foreign correspondent had been too good a chance for him to miss . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Perhaps that had been too personal a remark . |
| 21 | But some say it 's been too high a price to pay . |