Example sentences of "had be a [adj] failure " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think we would have been better off if Dad had been a small-time failure . |
| 2 | There had been a ghastly failure of security , and heads had rolled . |
| 3 | Only when the plane landed was it discovered that there had been a compressor-blade failure in one of the engines . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It drew comparisons between the events in Cleveland , Rochdale , and now Orkney , stating that there had been a consistent failure — if not an outright refusal by Social Work Departments — to carry out proper investigations , pooling of information from the families and all the professions and services involved with them . |
| 7 | As James himself came ashore , pale and exhausted , he was greeted by cries of ‘ Vive le roi ! ’ but it was evident that what might , copying later usage , be called ‘ The ‘ 08 ’ had been a disastrous failure . |
| 8 | He wanted to blurt out that she looked beautiful in blue , that he 'd like to kill the man who 'd been in her flat the previous evening , that he hoped her date with him had been a miserable failure , that he had hardly slept a wink all night , beside himself with jealousy . |
| 9 | It did not require a genius to discover that there had been a structural failure of the right stabiliser in down-load while the aircraft was on final approach to land and that fundamental to the failure was a massive fatigue fracture of the rear spar of the stabiliser emanating from the hole of the eleventh fastener on the forward flange of the stabiliser chord . |
| 10 | The distribution of the wreckage was such that from the position of the outer wing panels more than two kilometres from the main wreckage it was clear that there had been a structural failure of both wings in the air . |
| 11 | Her life had been an absolute failure ! |