Example sentences of "[noun sg] have been a complete " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grandstand/insurance fiddle has been a complete balls up . |
| 2 | The second operation has been a complete success . ’ |
| 3 | British Coal spokesman Eddie Mardell said : ‘ The police operation has been a complete success . |
| 4 | Zeta 's failure to produce genuine thermonuclear neutrons , together with the implications of that failure , led to adverse public reaction and gave the impression that Zeta had been a complete failure . |
| 5 | As a means of selecting a design , the competition had been a complete failure , but in view of the effort which had gone into it , official opinion was not prepared to write it off . |
| 6 | It takes a little while for an author to realize that his book has been a complete failure . |