Example sentences of "have been so [adj] [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Why my paternal so-called grandparents had been so stuffy the only time I met them . |
| 5 | Her cheeks , which had been so white the previous evening , now had colour , and instead of sagging with exhaustion she radiated the extraordinary vitality that had so attracted me at our first meeting on the Cutty Sark . |
| 6 | It had been so exciting the last time with one plane . |
| 7 | On arriving he missed that female intimacy which had been so important a part of his life for many years . |