Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [been] a [adj] affair " in BNC.
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| 1 | The burial had been a small affair . |
| 2 | For years lunch had been a twenty-minute affair . |
| 3 | Indeed the first meeting after the announcement had been a sullen affair , with the child , pinched face , eyes cold with anger , scarcely able to speak to her . |
| 4 | Our permanency planning has been a two-stage affair , but we never got our preventive and rehabilitative act together properly in the 1960s . |
| 5 | The reception had been a glittering affair , and an odd one . |