Example sentences of "been such a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although devoted to his family and always kind to them , he expected and strongly pressed his only son to follow the legal and political career in which he had been such a brilliant success . |
| 2 | That Darren 's car has been such a loyal servant is all the more surprising when you consider that it spent its first 50,000 miles in the hands of a company rep and was then driven for 22,000 miles by a builder — two occupations hardly renowned for lavishing care and attention on cars . |
| 3 | I ask the Chancellor to explain why there has been such a humiliating U-turn by the Prime Minister . |
| 4 | Now I ask the Chancellor to explain why there has been such a humiliating U-turn by the Prime Minister ; herself the inventor of the Madrid conditions , and now their arch destroyer . |
| 5 | It is doubtful whether they had ever been such a serious liability to the Yorkist regime . |
| 6 | It is doubtful whether they had ever been such a serious liability to the Yorkist regime . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I do not think there has ever been a period in history when there has been such a violent and irreversible change in the political and social order ( unless it be the long-term consequences of the Russian Revolution ) . |
| 9 | Paul never explicitly describes the heresy he seeks to expose at Colossae , though from his statement it is possible to piece together the evidence of what had been such a destructive influence . |
| 10 | Over the past two years , she pointed out , Saatchi had purchased major works by many of those British painters whose rise to prominence has been such a striking feature of recent years : Saatchi has bought work by , among others , Frank Auerbach , Lucian Freud , Leon Kossoff and Howard Hodgkin . |
| 11 | Apparently it was convenient for BR to say that , because , had there been such a high-speed line included in the Channel Tunnel Bill , it is possible that that Bill would have fallen . |
| 12 | How could he have been such a poor judge of character ? |
| 13 | It had been such a traumatic , agonising time , even now she could n't talk about it without feeling pain . |
| 14 | Thus , but for their own agricultural ministry , there would have been no American criticism , nor would there have been such a well-publicised fillip for the Californian sparkling wine industry . |
| 15 | ‘ You 've always been such a good little girl . |
| 16 | You 've been such a good and loyal friend to me all these years , and I know it was wrong of me to ask something so demanding of you , but … ’ |
| 17 | He has been such a good , kind husband . ’ |
| 18 | Before Aunt Tossie had sent him away to that Special School , Nicandra had been such a good little Queen to him . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 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 | He felt a serious sympathy for the little ones looking like their own grandfathers ; he had probably been such a one himself . |
| 22 | Never has there been such a sporting farce over a straightforward issue : Was the ball out of shape through natural causes ( Law 5.5 ) or had it been damaged deliberately ( Law 42.5 ) ? |
| 23 | Kitty 's mother had been such a black-clothed incantator , full of rhyming recipes for ills and puddings , for scalds and weather and animal magic . |
| 24 | There had been such a wide expanse of firm ground that a trench had never been worn . |
| 25 | Why has there been such a lamentable delay in the implementation of the RENAVAL programme ? |
| 26 | A common tendency , reflecting perhaps a consciousness of the taboo on didacticism which has been such a strong feature of recent primary education , was for some teachers to ask questions rather than make statements or give instructions . |
| 27 | But pressing the case for disclosure of APR has been such a long , hard battle that there is an obvious temptation to feel that — now the battle has been won — we can all sit back and sigh with relief . |
| 28 | If we relate this to the changes in the Labrador Sea we see ( Fig. 2 a ) that the only time there has been such a long period with little or no change in salinity , followed by a sudden marked freshening , was the period leading up to the renewal in 1972 . |
| 29 | It 's been such a long time . |
| 30 | I 'm sorry it 's been such a long journey , but I could n't find a quicker route . |