Example sentences of "[verb] been [det] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd be su I would 've been such a wreck last night if that , if Foxy had done that to me . |
| 2 | ‘ Because my love life has been such a mess ! ’ |
| 3 | This popular hotel has been such a success with Club 18–30 that we 're delighted to feature it again as our Club Choice for summer ‘ 90 . |
| 4 | It has been such a success within the company over recent months that JT Design Build are now making it available throughout the construction industry and to the industry 's clients . |
| 5 | By contrast Celtic had a goal in hand for much of the match and put together many passages of the passing game which has been such a feature of recent matches . |
| 6 | The extent to which there has been such a departure is well shown by the fact that , when the World Council of Churches was originally formed in 1948 , the basis of that Council ( to which churches which wanted to join must subscribe ) read : ‘ The World Council of Churches is a fellowship of churches which accept our Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour . ’ |
| 7 | If that programme has been such a failure , why do we now have 30 programmes targeting support for identifiable industrial priority areas , and why are there almost 200 collaborative research programmes ? |
| 8 | Thirdly , if there has been such a form of duress leading to a contract for consideration , I think that contract is a voidable one which can be avoided and the excess money paid under it recovered . |
| 9 | There has been such a growth in direct dealing that fish is only getting sent to Billingsgate when no one else wants it . ’ |
| 10 | Mrs Thatcher has been such a figure and , in spite of reverses , she has animated and directed governments with a sense of political direction . |
| 11 | One of the great successes of the F-Plan method has been such a meal , a kind of home-made muesli , called Fibre-Filler . |
| 12 | But Cooper was unfortunate to appear before the disciplinary committee at a time when it was under increasing pressure to eradicate the high , late tackle that has been such a scar on the game this season . |
| 13 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 14 | There has been such a reaction around the world that there may be some hope . |
| 15 | Seeing as he 'd been such a pain , I was a little slow going to his rescue . |
| 16 | How could I have been such a fool as to take him seriously ? |
| 17 | How could I have been such a fool ? ’ she wailed through her tears . |
| 18 | Smiles came from within , they were n't just a facial movement , and she stared at him assessingly as she wondered how she could have been such a fool . |
| 19 | How could she have been such a fool ? |
| 20 | ‘ He would not have been such a fool as to do it in front of witnesses . ’ |
| 21 | For the control practices , with their low rate of cross boundary referrals , this may not have been such a concern . |
| 22 | Without your hard work , the development of the new courses could not have been such a success . |
| 23 | Had the police department , under former Chief Darryl Gates , carried out its duties properly last April there would not have been such a spread of violence , he said . |
| 24 | It must have been such a shock for him when Maria Luisa had told him she was going to marry Steve . |
| 25 | It may have been such a realisation ( along with the generally hostile reaction to the Framework document ) that encouraged the DES to be less specific in its second attempt at producing a framework for the curriculum ( almost a year after its first attempt ) . |
| 26 | If he had been able to speak to Jo each morning before he left for the Embassy , he probably would n't have been such a pain in the outer office . |
| 27 | But er you know , and it would have been such a waste cos he 's bright . |
| 28 | Allied to this comes guilt : guilt about being such a wimp ; guilt about being so secretive ; guilt about having been such a bitch or a bastard ; guilt about all the things not done ; guilt about mistakes and errors of judgement ; guilt , in other words , about Not Being Good Enough . |
| 29 | That was why it had been such a shock when the neighbours came round to tell Lily the baby was screaming and there was nobody answering the door or any lights on in the house . |
| 30 | This was quite untenable to Barratt and Taylor and in a letter Taylor complained that there never had been such a requirement in any mining lease and any experienced miner would reject it as attempting to enforce an impossibility . |