Example sentences of "[noun sg] that have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gives women equal access to a pavilion that has been a male preserve for 125 years and leaves Lord 's as English cricket 's last bastion of discrimination . |
| 2 | It was here , on the ground floor of the east wing , that Louise Taylor had been found , in the same room that had been the royal family 's drawing-room . |
| 3 | It was ancient , a nest of shining metal that had been the first cis-lunar colony , the first man-made world that orbited around mankind 's ancestral home . |
| 4 | For some I know this is simply not enough , but as the years go by I find that Chopin 's ultra-refined eloquence of utterance responds more readily to an unforced , more integrated style than the ferocious changeability that has been the very kernel of Chopin playing for the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 5 | The large oval locket that had been an eighteenth-birthday present from her aunt , a gold bracelet , a pair of drop earrings and — she breathed a sigh of relief — her mother 's clip were still in the sandalwood box her parents had given her . |
| 6 | In this way the autonomy and spontaneity of the individual subject that had been the original goal of enlightenment might be retrieved . |
| 7 | Ironically , it 's the simplicity that has been a major headache for distributors Oak Marketing . |
| 8 | They looked about them a bit hazily and then at the bleeding half-thing that had been the young boy and scuttled into a corner . |