Example sentences of "that had been the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | The protection suit that had been the sacrificial dummy was no longer that . |
| 4 | Yes , that had been the happiest time of her life . |
| 5 | In this way the autonomy and spontaneity of the individual subject that had been the original goal of enlightenment might be retrieved . |