Sentence examples for have been sheer from inspiring English sources

One of the forces behind this phonic revolution seems to have been sheer thespian ambition.

It must have been sheer stubbornness that kept me driving to Port Washington that summer.

"It may well have been sheer chance, but these were not just three players, but three very good players," he said.

Well, it could have been the flag, but any coolness is surely more likely to have been sheer hungry envy of those American steaks.

Caught in such a profusion of delicious wines, it would have been sheer recklessness to announce that this one was obviously from Oregon, that one from the Cote de Beaune, that one from Carneros or the Anderson Valley.

It must have been sheer torture for them.

Much has been made about the strength and butt-kicking righteousness of the new incarnation of Wonder Woman but one thing she does not have that Wonder Woman of the 1970's TV series did have is sheer nerd power.

What they do have is sheer dogma, an unwillingness to separate the essence of God from the literal interpretation of texts written by humans, a lack of the wisdom that religion is supposed to provide, and a political agenda that has nothing to do with God and everything to do with power and money.

But getting there, says Threapleton, has been sheer, hard slog.

Wrigley Field had been sheer death to pitchers' aspirations.

Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary, said on Saturday that there had been "sheer panic" at the Department of Health.