Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [be] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contemporary ‘ macho ’ image which Press and public has given to the regiment since they became dramatically aware of it during the siege in 1980 of the Iranian Embassy in London , is a false representation of what it was during the Second World War . |
| 2 | The doubling of profits in Communications brings the level back only to what it was in the second half of last year . |
| 3 | The North Shields fishing industry , life in which is interestingly and sympathetically described in Beter Mortimore 's ( 1987 ) The Last of The Hunters , is now pretty much what it was in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 4 | Yet the output is little over half what it was in the last five years before 1939 . |
| 5 | I saw it happen with Jaco Pastorius — I know what it was like the first time I heard him . |