Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [det] a [noun] " 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 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 | The Wards are most helpful ( they say that running Culver Lodge has restored their faith in human nature as their guests have always been such a pleasure ) and are always ready to give advice on places to visit , walks , bus and rail timetables . |
| 10 | Travelling , which had once been such a bore to him , was now a continual nightmare . |
| 11 | ‘ Have we really been such a bunch of miseries to work with ? ’ |
| 12 | Even that seemingly most child-aware artist , Dick Bruna , says ( 1984 , p.43 ) , ‘ I 'm sure that if the books had n't been such a success , I would still be continuing in the same way . |
| 13 | If I had n't been such a coward maybe they might have turned out better . ’ |
| 14 | why has there been such a Star Wars plan ? |
| 15 | There had never been such a period before , of such security and stability . |
| 16 | She told her how beautiful they were , how there had never been such a blue . |
| 17 | There has never been such a vote of no confidence in the country since Gallup began measuring the urge to emigrate in 1948 . |
| 18 | As for the matter of the diversion of funds , he still believed that there had never been such a thing . |
| 19 | There never had been such a moment , for critics ; there has never been such a moment since . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |