Example sentences of "[pron] had been such a " in BNC.
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| 31 | The hospital and all that went with it had been such an oasis in the alarming wilderness of doing everything for , and chiefly by , myself ; now it came to the point of leaving it , I was scared . |
| 32 | Although devoted to his family and always kind to them , he expected and strongly pressed his only son to follow the legal and political career in which he had been such a brilliant success . |
| 33 | Paul never explicitly describes the heresy he seeks to expose at Colossae , though from his statement it is possible to piece together the evidence of what had been such a destructive influence . |