Example sentences of "[noun sg] that have been [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saints did show the free-running , slick football that has been their trademark this season late in the second half . |
| 2 | He dragged himself from the clump of twitch-grass that had been his hiding-place for the last half hour , and shivering violently , set off on foot to the east . |
| 3 | In essence that has been his difficulty over responding positively to the clarion cry made in December for a recall of the Scottish parliament . |
| 4 | James Abbott held the crook he carried every working day , the crook that had been his father 's when he was shepherd here , head shepherd to Alexander Bewick . |
| 5 | But for the past year she 's faced the very real possibility of losing the Inn that 's been her life because Whitbreads decided to sell it off along with other pubs to meet the demands of the Monopolies Commission , which had demanded it must get rid of half its tied houses . |
| 6 | Then , as they drove into the town , he saw the house of Mr Sowerberry the undertaker , and the workhouse that had been his prison . |
| 7 | It was brave of this woman to bring a resentful and hostile stranger into the place that had been her home . |
| 8 | All this happened in the area of the tent , the warm place that had been their haven . |
| 9 | Exhausted by the glare of fame that has been his lot since NME elevated him to cult status TDFC ( as we like to call him , being mates and all that ) has been trying to relax by helping his bandmate CARL build a replica of London out of matchsticks in his Manchester bedroom . |
| 10 | Former County Donegal coach No. 28 leaves the caravan site that has been its home for 30 years to return to the railway . |
| 11 | Nevertheless Rosa produced a wooden box which was just the size , and Sarah went back up to the room that had been her home since childhood . |
| 12 | He paused only the once , gazing down at the burnt meat that had been his friend and comrade for so long . |
| 13 | For my character that 's been her hook on life , she sees it as a way of competing with women who are brighter or have got more of a start in life . |
| 14 | ‘ We expect to win more line-out ball — an area that has been our undoing in the past — and we are all now encouraged to think for ourselves . |
| 15 | Iskandara always chose the wing chair that had been her mother 's , covered in wine-red leather and studded with brass nails as big as gull 's eggs . |
| 16 | Her body without it walked away towards the house , staggering from side to side , blood flowing from the stump that had been her neck . |
| 17 | Anne pushed the thing that had been her sister away . |
| 18 | Nanny stood on the bridge that spanned the ornamental lake and looked back at the beautiful house that had been her home for the last thirty years . |
| 19 | Viktor had sketched the green enamel and the twinkling diamonds in the tattered book he 'd taken with him from the charnel house that had been his home . |