Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why meat has long been such a symbol of worldly power . |
| 2 | The Democratic Party chairman , Mr Ron Brown , said that ‘ there has not been such a decision so out of touch with American values since the sale of arms to the Ayatollah . |
| 3 | David Rigg , commercial development director , reminisced nostalgically that there has not been such a boom in his business since the rush to decolonise Africa some 30 years ago . |
| 4 | There has not been such a bad outcome for the professionals since the American election of 1948 when the pollsters confidently predicted a clear victory for Dewey . |
| 5 | ‘ I caused the party a great deal of anxiety over my views ’ he explained and added ‘ but strangely enough with this book it has not been such a struggle . |
| 6 | Graham 's devotion to his family has always been such that he drives home every night from Test matches in London rather than stay in the team hotel . |
| 7 | Indeed we may say that there has always been such a tendency , in the patristic period likewise , to collapse the distinction between the two natures . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ I travel an awful lot with my career but I have always kept up my links with Derry and the football club has always been such a part of me . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Ah , yes — you see , it has n't been such a-long walk after all , ’ said Lady Selvedge . |
| 10 | why has there been such a Star Wars plan ? |
| 11 | Why has there been such a , a , thing in the fifties and sixties for buying and that sort of stuff ? |
| 12 | There never had been such a moment , for critics ; there has never been such a moment since . |
| 13 | In a study of miraculous images of Mary which weep , the author , Father Hebert SM , after saying there is a long history of these writes , ‘ There has never been such an outpouring of tears as there has been in this century … more explicitly during the ten years , 1971–1981 , particularly so in Italy and in the United States ’ . |
| 14 | The hon. Member for South Ribble ( Mr. Atkins ) says that he will be among those abolished , but he has already abolished himself — there has never been such a secret and silent Minister for Sport . |
| 15 | There has never been such a vote of no confidence in the country since Gallup began measuring the urge to emigrate in 1948 . |
| 16 | And it had all been such a long time ago ! |
| 17 | And to my annoyance was added the realization that perhaps he had not been such a bad interrogator after all . |
| 18 | Immediately she thought guiltily that if Betty had not been such a nice girl she would now remark acidly that a weasel had got it . |
| 19 | There had not been such severe storms in southern England for hundreds of years , and the structure of woodlands had not been so regularly modified by gales as in the more stormy north of Britain . |
| 20 | It had not been such a dull night after all , she mused , hoped Travis 's head would n't be too sore in the morning , then found that , whatever diversions might occur , once the excitement was over she was back to worrying about the wretched mortgage . |
| 21 | ‘ You 've always been such a good little girl . |
| 22 | You 've always been such a wonderful sister to me . |
| 23 | There had always been such spirit in her . |
| 24 | They had always been such an uncomplicated species before she had met Piers . |
| 25 | It had n't been easy to break into the tough world of radio news reporting , not with her fragile appearance , which had always been such a handicap . |
| 26 | It is doubtful whether they had ever been such a serious liability to the Yorkist regime . |
| 27 | It is doubtful whether they had ever been such a serious liability to the Yorkist regime . |
| 28 | Travelling , which had once been such a bore to him , was now a continual nightmare . |
| 29 | He felt a serious sympathy for the little ones looking like their own grandfathers ; he had probably been such a one himself . |
| 30 | Even if he had n't been such a good-looking chap , he was , by any standards , the only eligible man around . |