Example sentences of "[pron] had been such a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what happened to the crushed tomatoes which had been such a success , Were they abandoned in favour of whole canned tomatoes ? |
| 2 | Beside the door of each room a supply of ready-loaded firearms had been laid ; every available weapon , from the Enfield rifles of those killed earlier in the siege to native flintlocks and the countless sporting guns which had been such a feature of " the possessions " , had been pressed into service . |
| 3 | This was the 1st Ukrainian Division , many of whose members came from those parts of Poland incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1939 and which had been such a special concern of the AFHQ letter of 6 March defining " Soviet nationals " . |
| 4 | By contrast , the early 1980s were dominated by the re-emergence of the drift to the South East which had been such a focus of attention in the 1950s and early 1960s . |
| 5 | Focus on the two-party system , the growing strength of the organized working-class and the gradual decline of the big single-issue movements which had been such a central feature of the mid-Victorian political scene were visible signs of this transformation . |
| 6 | The parameters of the religious issue might have been changed somewhat by the grudging toleration granted to Protestant Nonconformists in 1689 , but the religious settlement can scarcely be said to have provided a satisfactory solution to the issue of Dissent which had been such a source of tension in Restoration society . |
| 7 | As a result of this new alliance with the bishops , we see little of the anti-episcopalian rhetoric which had been such a prominent feature of the Whig platform during the Exclusion Crisis . |
| 8 | To relinquish her calling , or the possibility of the companionship and family life which had been such an influential part of her background . |
| 9 | Anna thought about the needlework classes of her schooldays , in which she had been such a conspicuous non-success . |
| 10 | She had been such a fine woman . |
| 11 | Sometimes they had speculated on how she would develop but not often : mostly she was taken for granted because she had been such a quiet child , sitting dozily in her pram outside the Dog and Duck while the sun went down . |
| 12 | She had been such an innocent victim from the start it seemed only fair to help her all they could now . |
| 13 | On 1 August 1834 , after attending the wedding of his daughter Priscilla who had been such a tireless assistant to her father , Thomas Fowell Buxton and his gentlemen associates attended a ‘ grand public dinner ’ to celebrate the end of slavery with toasts and speeches . |
| 14 | In this more fiercely competitive situation people quarrel more readily and more often , and the elder who had been such a paragon of gentle paternalism finds things increasingly difficult . |
| 15 | But as I left my car and started to go into the house it was then that I realised I was falling under the spell of this Englishwoman who had been such a delightful and charming companion that day . ’ |
| 16 | Vitor caressed her for a moment but then , impatient for the nakedness of the woman who had been such an obstinate aching presence in his bloodstream , he eased the amber silk from her shoulders and unhooked her lacy bra . |
| 17 | There had been such a wide expanse of firm ground that a trench had never been worn . |
| 18 | Perhaps it was because there had been such a short gap between this meeting and the burial of her husband . |
| 19 | The problem was that we did n't know why there had been such a dramatic improvement . |
| 20 | Even if there had been such an agreement , there was nothing to stop the board getting rid of Mr Venables if it wished , said Mr Heslop . |
| 21 | Always , in the past , it had been such a jolly day . |
| 22 | That was why it had been such a shock when the neighbours came round to tell Lily the baby was screaming and there was nobody answering the door or any lights on in the house . |
| 23 | It had been such a confusing time for her — the quarrel with Stephen and her mother 's death following so closely . |
| 24 | It had been such a tight squeeze to get the Princess into the boat house at all , that someone had come up with the bright idea of removing the edge boards from the quay platforms on either side . |
| 25 | It had been such a lovely evening . |
| 26 | It had been such a stupid little exchange , the words in themselves meaning nothing , yet here she was , trembling like a colt . |
| 27 | It had been such a little hurt . |
| 28 | It had been such a traumatic , agonising time , even now she could n't talk about it without feeling pain . |
| 29 | It had been such a good idea and all that had resulted from it was a double punishment for her and a complete failure to make anyone believe to Alicia or Daryl had played the trick . |
| 30 | It had been such an unsettled year altogether that he had had no opportunity for connected work of anything other than a temporary kind ; at the beginning of November , faced with the prospect of the British Council tours to France and Italy , he did not believe that he would be able to begin serious composition until the new year . |