Sentence examples for had been ideal from inspiring English sources
Even the fricassee of peas and pearl onions on the side had been ideal.
Not all growers however have experienced difficult conditions, with some claiming the weather had been ideal for pumpkins.
S. J. Wenderlich, deputy superintendent for security services at Elmira, said that the Peterses had been ideal double-bunk inmates.
The acoustic had been ideal, however, for the opening work, Stravinsky's characterful Three Pieces for String Quartet; and the piece in between sounded radiant.
His wife died three years later, and when the children grew up and began leaving home, what had been ideal for a family began to seem like a burden.
Ms. Potter, interviewed by telephone from London, says that Ms. Swinton had been ideal as that film's star because "you can't quite pin her down to a place or time, and yet she can be credibly of any place and time".
The partnership with Mr. Zaslav, she says, "has been ideal".
Maybe that would have been "ideal", as Mr Huntsman says.
