Example sentences of "[been] [prep] such a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been through such a storm before , and it is the gusting that is most dangerous . ’ |
| 2 | " Employment on the railways as in other sections of the transport industry can not be said to have been of such a character as to fit in with the theory of labour aristocracy . " |
| 3 | The conduct had also to be intended to provoke a breach of the peace or to have been of such a nature as to have been likely to have occasioned such a breach . |
| 4 | How else would he have been with such a father ? |
| 5 | This is not , as it might have been with such a tale , the cuckolded merchant , but rather Margery , the stupid wife , who is particularly funny because she is so unthinkingly conventionally good and who effaces any real self she may be imagined to have within a cluster of clichés . |
| 6 | According to the assessments of relatives , friends , and neighbours who answered the questions , the quality of life of people who had been in a residential home for a year or more before their death was similar to that of others who died but had never been in such a home . |
| 7 | The proportions reported to have had difficulty with various aspects of caring for themselves ( getting in and out of a bath or shower , dressing and undressing , going to the toilet , washing and shaving , feeding themselves , making a hot drink , or needing help at night ) for a year or more before death was 87 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more , 60 per cent of those in for a shorter time and 25 per cent of those who had not been in such a home at all . |
| 8 | A few of the teenage mothers in this book had been in such a home . |
| 9 | But he had been in such a degree of desperation because of his financial position . |
| 10 | Even more exhilarating was the fact that already his ambitions as a choreographer were making progress : ‘ I have been in such a state lately ! |
| 11 | Why had Carmen been in such a hurry ? |
| 12 | She would have liked Nice — if she had not been in such a hurry to be in Paris . |
| 13 | Mind you , it could have been cheaper if you had n't been in such a hurry . |
| 14 | ‘ No , but it is not the first time I have been in such a situation . |
| 15 | She had never been in such a place before , and she saw at once that most of the men had girls with them who were certainly not their wives , or the kind of girl one took home to mother . |
| 16 | hold a position of responsibility within the industry and have been in such a post for at least two years |
| 17 | I had never been in such a forest and found it fascinating . |
| 18 | I was spellbound : I had never known anybody who had been to such a faraway country . |
| 19 | I had never been to such a show before — not at all the thing that well-bred young ladies are supposed to attend — but she made me laugh … |
| 20 | Anyone who has been to such a gathering knows that the fun-loving atmosphere of these occasions is not ideal to hammer home messages about personal safety . |
| 21 | I had not been to such a party since before Leslie went to North Africa , and talking to Ika and his friends on a balcony canopied by a starry sky , I felt a spurt of pleasure , quickly followed by a surge of guilt : Leslie was dead , and I was alive , and capable of enjoying some temporary diversion . |
| 22 | The tension between them , the sexual feeling , had been at such a pitch . |