Example sentences of "been [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's not been asleep a minute all night ! |
| 2 | A senior security service officer had been machine-gunned a week earlier in Fayoum town ( about 100 km from Cairo ) as local tensions that dated from the previous year had flared up . |
| 3 | I mean they 'll just they 'll just have it sat there empty , it 's been empty a year now . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After a while I thought that as Dateline had been such a success the first time why not have some fun and do it again ? |
| 7 | The 1951 Stratford season had been such a success , it would have been foolish to have followed it with any lesser thing . |
| 8 | Why has Futuroscope been such a success ? |
| 9 | But what happened to the crushed tomatoes which had been such a success , Were they abandoned in favour of whole canned tomatoes ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Without your hard work , the development of the new courses could not have been such a success . |
| 12 | Dr Marshall says it 's been such a success he 'd like to see his research go up in flames again |
| 13 | Dr Marshall says it 's been such a success he 'd like to see his research go up in flames again |
| 14 | He remained in detention during the rebellion but stated in a letter published in the press that he had been responsible for it , a claim which was interpreted more as a dramatic personal gesture than a statement of fact ; earlier reports stated that the rebellion had been such a surprise to him that he had requested a pistol in order to shoot himself . |
| 15 | Not since 1949 has there been such a chance to abolish blood sports and just 13 absent MPs blew it . |
| 16 | For the control practices , with their low rate of cross boundary referrals , this may not have been such a concern . |
| 17 | ‘ By the way , ’ she began , hardly able to credit that , when earlier that morning her car had been such a concern to her , great expanses of time should now elapse without her giving it so much as a thought , ‘ could you tell me the name of the garage where my car — ’ |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Travelling , which had once been such a bore to him , was now a continual nightmare . |
| 20 | If I had n't been such a coward maybe they might have turned out better . ’ |
| 21 | My mother 's always dying , it 's been such a help over the years , and poor Papa frequently demands a change of geriatric vista . |
| 22 | For his firm support and that of Charles Elly as Deputy Vice-President , despite other intense pressures on their time , I owe a singular debt of gratitude — as I do to the Secretary-General and all his staff , not least the dedicated private office team who have been such a help to me and to Catherine my wife . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've been such a help , ’ she said , brushing aside Loretta 's half-hearted attempt to make a contribution . |
| 24 | You 've been such a help . ’ |
| 25 | 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 … |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | The kiss had been such a butterfly of a thing that she did not reject it , and when he bent and kissed her cheek she did not reject that either . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's been such a shock . |
| 30 | 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 . |