Example sentences of "[conj] it had [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added that it had been some years since he had been back in England . |
| 2 | The ensuing reforms were implemented piecemeal and did not fundamentally change the system , but procedure was considerably more summary by 1900 than it had been fifty years earlier . |
| 3 | Most head teachers questioned thought the position was worse than it had been five years earlier . |
| 4 | Cnut still had a difficult road to travel , but by the end of 1017 some major obstacles already lay behind him , and his position in England was much more secure than it had been twelve months earlier . |
| 5 | ‘ Leith , ’ he said , but his look was no warmer , no less arrogant than it had been all morning , ‘ you do n't … ’ he went on , and seemed slightly stuck for words . |
| 6 | On leaving the stall they plunged into the hall which was bedlam , and far fuller than it had been that morning . |
| 7 | The ground fire was much worse than it had been that morning . |
| 8 | The marsh-mist was far denser than it had been last night , and there was nothing solid to give direction anywhere . |
| 9 | The concentration of production in a few firms was considerably more marked in 1970 than it had been 15 years earlier , and many economists attribute around half the increase in concentration in the 1960s to the merger boom during those years . |
| 10 | There was the usual bawdy banter , of course , and it had been that way ever since she first put on her white apron and began serving behind the counter . |
| 11 | They had lived with her for three months before they got this place , and it had been three months too long as far as he was concerned . |
| 12 | But , city dweller as she had always been , she had been aware of every sound — the gentle lapping noises of the canal against the side of the boat , the small night sounds of birds and other creatures , and it had been some time before weary body and brain relaxed . |
| 13 | Whichever way , she probably had n't given it much thought at the time and it had been some time later when her mother had told her that he had left the country and gone abroad to work . |
| 14 | You see , your subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined ; so , although the information it had received during those twelve days was in fact a product of Sylvia 's imagination , the effect on her subconscious was precisely the same as if it had been actual experience . |
| 15 | If it had been any priest other than Father Devlin he would have told him to go to hell and mind his own business . |
| 16 | What if it had been some lunatic who sounded like her , someone who had lured her here for a reason . |
| 17 | He saw and he cared , but it had been many months since he had counted with her . |
| 18 | It was almost a physical pain and for a moment he felt shocked because it had been many years since the agony of losing Gerda . |
| 19 | It was shimmering under the surface as it had been all afternoon . |
| 20 | The hands moved away , downwards , across the hard muscle of his stomach that was as tough and flat as it had been ten years ago , when he was eighteen . |
| 21 | SHE CORRESPONDED WITH AN EXPERT ON THE CHURCH , WHO TOLD HER THAT THE CHURCH SHE HAD ‘ SEEN ’ WAS THE CHURCH AS IT HAD BEEN 400 YEARS AGO , BEFORE IT HAD BEEN REBUILT IN 1553 . |
| 22 | I enjoyed the gnocchi in a friendly watering hole along the road , however , and the Elban wine was just as good as it had been 30 years ago . |
| 23 | I cried in surprise , for it had been four years since he disappeared . |