Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] have be at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 2 | I did n't think she was ever going to be as appealing as Frances , but I hoped that by the end of the book she would be a little more appealing than she had been at the beginning . ’ |
| 3 | However , Sheila Payne , from the Department of Psychology , University of Exeter , has discovered that women being treated for breast or ovarian cancer were much more anxious half-way through their treatment than they had been at the beginning . |
| 4 | After a year , the homoeopathically treated group was substantially better than the aspirin group , with two thirds of the patients better than they had been at the start of the trial , while none of the patients on aspirin had improved and most of them had dropped out , either because of unacceptable side-effects , or because the treatment was ineffective . |
| 5 | Thus lone parents were both relatively and absolutely worse off by the end of the 1980s than they had been at the start of the decade ( see also Roll , 1988a , 1988b ) . |
| 6 | In short , Ulster remained more of a violent backwater , removed from the mainstream of British social development , at the end of the 1970s than it had been at the start of that troubled decade . |
| 7 | Christmas of 1919 seems to have been vastly more festive than it had been at the workhouse in , say , the Dickensian days of 1844 . |
| 8 | The population was becoming less markedly English than it had been at the beginning of the century , with a large number of Ulstermen ( who felt the operation of the leasehold system was squeezing them out of land they had conquered and settled in Ireland ) , Scotsmen , and Germans among the settlers . |
| 9 | Thereafter it rose again to about £91,000 per annum in the last five years of the reign , little more than it had been at the start . |
| 10 | The truth of it was that he was even less certain of her now than he 'd been at the beginning ; how she thought , the way she might react as the world around her changed . |
| 11 | John was not universally popular with his new colleagues any more than he had been at the Wells ; his ambition aroused suspicion , scorn , envy or fear in some , and his sense of fun ( including a rather observant line in mimicry ) left barbs in some of its victims . |
| 12 | If it had been at the border they 'd have given him five or even ten . ’ |
| 13 | If he had been at the Sex of One … party , he must have driven down some time between the small hours-of the Sunday morning and when he rang Keith Battrick-Jones on the Monday morning . |
| 14 | ‘ Unemployment is something that personally concerns me because I have been at the edge of unemployment all my life , ’ added the 42-year-old who speaks highly of the quality of the environment on Teesside , a much richer and more vibrant and pleasant place in which to live than he had imagined . |
| 15 | Erm that probably because they 'd been at the bottom so long , er it did n't appear that there was |
| 16 | Since I had been at the university we had seen far less of each other . |
| 17 | ‘ The first half was the worst we 've ever had since I 've been at the club . |
| 18 | ‘ After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better . |
| 19 | ‘ After I 'd been at the shop roughly eighteen months — that was in August 1914 — the Great War broke out ; and as two of our workmen joined the armed forces I had more or less to be pushed on . |
| 20 | No he came back he came back after he had been at the meeting . |
| 21 | Thinking of Minnie was to think of days long ago when she had been at the centre of things . |
| 22 | when she 's been at the school gate , she comes |
| 23 | This , of course , delighted the child and every night she stood in the wings performing everybody 's act with them , and even at the end of two shows , she was as bright in the dressing room as she 'd been at the overture . |
| 24 | He was three years older than Adam and though they had been at the same school , Highgate , they had not been friends then . |
| 25 | The questions posed by the existence of the asylums thus remained as unanswered at the end of these closures as they had been at the inception of their planning in 1978 , when NETRHA officers too were also beginning the difficult task of addressing them . |
| 26 | It had been a puzzle that they could be knocked around in interaction with each other and yet emerge unscathed , the same as they had been at the beginning . |
| 27 | The torrent here was almost as fearsome as it had been at the original crossing point , but not so deep . |
| 28 | As a result , by the end of the decade , output per person in manufacturing was half as much again as it had been at the start of the decade . |