Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] have be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It had been a hectic period during which we had been under some pressure .
2 I have come to the House this afternoon from a meeting with a representative of the Canadian High Commission , with which we have been in constant touch from the outset of the incident .
3 Their courage in entering into the conflict and their presence of mind in circumstances in which they have been in enormous danger are a great tribute to the individuals themselves and to the institution that sent them .
4 Her head was aching a bit too , but then that was not surprising perhaps after what she 'd been through this evening .
5 I imagined that , having got what you 've been after all week , you 'd be quite happy to agree … ’
6 Three years of horrifying anarchy and nine governments destroyed what there had been of Ukrainian nationalism .
7 This was a soft seduction of her senses , a sensuous reminder of what they had been to each other and what they had lost .
8 After that , the possibilities for the disturbed were very much what they were to remain until the introduction of the major tranquillisers — and indeed what they had been from Roman times .
9 But during the 1980s , subsidies have been progressively removed , and the IMF-sponsored auction of the local currency ( the kwacha ) meant that by 1987 its purchasing power was only one-third what it had been in 1983 .
10 Since the total grain harvest proved to be a mere 52 per cent of what it had been in 1913 , even the least affected areas had barely enough .
11 The level of truck loadings for 1922 was under one-third of what it had been in 1913 , although there was a vast improvement towards the end of the year .
12 In Britain , the Beeching Report on ‘ Reshaping the Railways ’ ( BRB 1963 ) led to a programme of closures and cutbacks that by 1968 had halved the number of stations , closed 8,000 km of route , halved the number of goods wagons and sharply reduced passenger services ; by 1970 , railway employment was less than half what it had been in 1963 .
13 By 1990 cash spending on the NHS was two and a half times what it had been in 1979 , topping £27 billion and making the DOH the second largest spending department ( NAHAT 1990 ) .
14 His income was less than a half of what it had been before 1914 , and lie was losing capital too .
15 They are that the public expect Britain to be defended and want Labour to be what it has been for most of its history — a party prepared to provide resources commensurate with defending this country .
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