Example sentences of "that have been [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former County Donegal coach No. 28 leaves the caravan site that has been its home for 30 years to return to the railway . |
| 2 | Saints did show the free-running , slick football that has been their trademark this season late in the second half . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | Anne pushed the thing that had been her sister away . |
| 7 | Carefully , she drew her hair back from her temples , securing it with a pair of jet clips that had been her grandmother 's . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was brave of this woman to bring a resentful and hostile stranger into the place that had been her home . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Her body without it walked away towards the house , staggering from side to side , blood flowing from the stump that had been her neck . |
| 13 | Being English she knew little about wine — that had been her father 's province . |
| 14 | He looked like a buccaneer of old except that he wore not the wide-sleeved shirts and breeches of the past but the rough working clothes that had been her father 's . |
| 15 | All this happened in the area of the tent , the warm place that had been their haven . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | His shroud of silver brocade , one of the pair that had been his wife 's first task after their wedding , was aired . |
| 19 | He paused only the once , gazing down at the burnt meat that had been his friend and comrade for so long . |
| 20 | He would jilt her , as her father had jilted Luigi 's wife — that had been his mission . |
| 21 | Richard , wearing the new dressing gown and slippers that had been his mother 's practical present , stood at the window , looking out over the bare countryside . |
| 22 | Then , as they drove into the town , he saw the house of Mr Sowerberry the undertaker , and the workhouse that had been his prison . |
| 23 | And his aim in doing that would be to be res , fully restore all that had been his brother 's , for his brother 's family . |
| 24 | There is little doubt that Harris 's 1,000-Plan saved the Command for the planned strategic bombing of Germany that had been his Directive from the Chiefs-of-Staff Committee who set aside some 3,500 heavy aircraft for this task . |
| 25 | He knew well enough , because once that had been his world too . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Some of the rapids were as difficult as those that had been our undoing on the first day , but tackled with a bit of newly learned skill they were challenging and exhilarating rather than terrifying . |
| 28 | At hockey there was a vacancy for the goalkeeper and that had been my position in the school team . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd never had any trouble getting pregnant , ’ she says , ‘ And that had been my downfall in a way . |
| 30 | Will the Home Secretary confirm that he is about to launch a £5 million campaign involving the glitzy television commercials that have been his trademark in every office of state that he has held ? |