Sentence examples for has been match from inspiring English sources
The competition has been match play, foursomes (partners taking alternate strokes) one day and singles the next; in 1963 there was added a day of four-ball play (each player plays his own ball, and each team counts only the better score on each hole).
Of course, the nice young lad in the corner shop who's secretly plotting a terrorist attack is the lineal descendant of the red who used to slumber silently under your bed, or the Nazi spy who eavesdropped in your train carriage – when it comes to paranoia about enemies within, the British public has been match-fit since the late 1930s.
Yet Russian stubbornness has been matched only by European indifference.
Inconstancy of opinion has been matched by inconstancy of action.
Good timing has been matched by good marketing.
His own uprooting has been matched by a restless creativity.
In the 78 years since, neither feat has been matched.
His gold-medal feat has been matched only by French skier Jean-Claude Killy. Jean-Claude Killy
In Britain, in contrast, tumbling demand has been matched by a strange decline in workers' productivity.
And the slowdown in China's economy has been matched by a helpful fall in inflation.
The warm reception that Mr. Martinez found in the office has been matched by online praise.
