Example sentences of "[coord] that [vb past] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that had been thirty years before , and the British were still there . |
| 2 | But that had been sixteen months ago and she was still here . |
| 3 | But that had been pure chance . |
| 4 | But that had been seven months ago , a chill morning in mid-February , when the bushes which screened the canal walk from the neighbouring council estate had been tangled thickets of lifeless thorn ; when the branches of the ash trees had been black with buds so tight that it seemed impossible they could ever crack into greenness ; and the thin denuded wands of willow , drooping over the canal , had cut delicate feathers on the quickening stream . |
| 5 | But that had been last month . |