Example sentences of "[was/were] in the past " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They said , ‘ this is how we were in the past ’ , and they made their image out of historical facts . |
| 2 | They accepted it as a general statement of how things were in the past . |
| 3 | Are these children yet again , as they were in the past , to be excluded from normal education ? |
| 4 | Certainly , one theory as to why crime appears to be going up is that as a society we are more intolerant of certain types of violence than we were in the past . |
| 5 | When I first knew Emerson , the days of his glory were in the past . |
| 6 | I think it would be a crying shame if the country pub disappeared but they need customers and there are n't the customers around that there were in the past . ’ |
| 7 | Rank-and-file members now participate far more fully in committee proceedings and are no longer subordinate to chairmen to the degree that they were in the past . |
| 8 | Even in the most jealously guarded ‘ non-intervention zones ’ , the absence of big predators makes them a shadow of what they were in the past . |
| 9 | Just as today there are towns , villages , hamlets and farmsteads , so there were in the past . |
| 10 | So it seems to be about school anxiety and exam anxieties and so , but those are very common kinds of dreams , but , but very often when you you find they 're actually about the present , they 're about some recurrent anxiety or conflict in the present which is masquerading as if it were in the past because your associations of what 's going on are connected with the past er one way or another . |
| 11 | The miseries he mentioned with the heating were in the past . |
| 12 | The minister said that employers were also to blame for the fall-off in recruits , describing them as ‘ much less supportive ’ of part-time soldiers than they were in the past . |
| 13 | ‘ This technology means that community groups and local people are able to find out much more about an issue and how it has been tackled elsewhere much more than they ever were in the past . |
| 14 | Because of this , the system of kinship terms is not valid evidence of what the marriage system was in the past , and Morgan 's and Engels 's assumptions , which rely on such an inference , can not be accepted . |
| 15 | But the woodland they create will be managed as it was in the past . |
| 16 | Having got his way for so long , he should now relax and let the chair revert to what it it was in the past : a part-time job . |
| 17 | Girl 's do n't ‘ do ’ the season any more ; it 's not like it was in the past , ’ said Sophia Burrell , 17 , who confessed to having missed most of the grooming session laid on by Lucie Clayton School of Modelling , ‘ because I had to do a law course ’ . |
| 18 | IF we want to understand how later life was in the past through direct experience , we have three possible sources . |
| 19 | Time had slipped , the flat was in the past , not a particular human past , but some old ownerless past like that of a hitherto undiscovered cavern whose silence resisted the puny human sounds of the intruders . |
| 20 | But that was in the past . |
| 21 | The Jungle Book they 'd forgotten about : it was in the past . |
| 22 | The unity was in the past and resided in the present and our devotion to Jesus . |
| 23 | ‘ The client and I work together to see what the problem was in the past and how it affects the present . ’ |
| 24 | In many respects , therefore , it would appear that the family is a much less important institution in modern society than it was in the past . |
| 25 | Much low-lying land which today is fertile was in the past an exasperating jigsaw of bog , burn and loch , difficult to negotiate , let alone exploit . |
| 26 | ‘ Jim , that was in the past , ’ she said . |
| 27 | But I told myself sourly that that was in the past , while here in the present a living was to be earned . |
| 28 | It was in the past that the developer/building owner [ D/BO ] said what he wanted . |
| 29 | This type of guarantee was in the past commonly created by the manufacturer supplying with the goods a reply paid postcard which the purchaser was asked to fill in and post , thereby accepting its terms . |
| 30 | Whatever the trouble , it was in the past . |