Example sentences of "[be] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jenny gave me a house-warming present of a radio so I 've been able to listen to music while I write — and it 's been such fun ! |
| 2 | She told her how beautiful they were , how there had never been such a blue . |
| 3 | Has there been such a restoration , since 1920 ? |
| 4 | There has been such a growth in direct dealing that fish is only getting sent to Billingsgate when no one else wants it . ’ |
| 5 | Demand for prospectuses has been such that an Independent scribe seeking a Warburgs telephone number for publication was told the firm really would prefer that it did not appear in print . |
| 6 | Over the past two years , she pointed out , Saatchi had purchased major works by many of those British painters whose rise to prominence has been such a striking feature of recent years : Saatchi has bought work by , among others , Frank Auerbach , Lucian Freud , Leon Kossoff and Howard Hodgkin . |
| 7 | But has anything else that has changed in those twenty-five years — or , for that matter , in the years since abolition — been such that it ought to influence the mind of a Member who is unable to convince himself that capital punishment deters ? |
| 8 | Mrs Thatcher has been such a figure and , in spite of reverses , she has animated and directed governments with a sense of political direction . |
| 9 | And if Jack had been such another he would have thanked Charlie for his unstinted friendship , his generous loans , his hospitality and for bringing him Marilyn Thompson . |
| 10 | Kim was learning more than she 'd bargained for from the entries : ‘ I had n't realised that the all-in-one body had been such an immensely influential piece . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's why human rights violations , even those by Idi Amin in Uganda , have been such embarrassments , because you ca n't legally do anything about them in international law , ’ Prof Wilkinson says . |
| 14 | This is when there has been such heavy use that the pile eventually flattens or there is excessive ‘ tracking ’ in a doorway . |
| 15 | There has been such an enormous increase in mobility in work and recreation . |
| 16 | Never before has there been such open abuse of power by those who are supposed to set standards for the people . |
| 17 | It could have been such a futile act . |
| 18 | He was beginning to think it would not have been such a bad thing if he had had an affair with Eleanor . |
| 19 | Even if he had n't been such a good-looking chap , he was , by any standards , the only eligible man around . |
| 20 | I felt so proud of my father for having been such a fine craftsman . |
| 21 | There had never been such a period before , of such security and stability . |
| 22 | As for the matter of the diversion of funds , he still believed that there had never been such a thing . |
| 23 | There had never been such a literary success in England . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ This has been such a dreadful shock for the community . |
| 26 | She puts her intellect to work on why she 's been such a pain for the last 50 years , and ends up a little less smug and a lot less married . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There has not been such a bad outcome for the professionals since the American election of 1948 when the pollsters confidently predicted a clear victory for Dewey . |
| 29 | They were a primitive and tribal people , and do not seem to have been such fierce opponents as the Saxons . |
| 30 | 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 . |