Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] be at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Christmas of 1919 seems to have been vastly more festive than it had been at the workhouse in , say , the Dickensian days of 1844 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If it had been at the border they 'd have given him five or even ten . ’ |
| 6 | The torrent here was almost as fearsome as it had been at the original crossing point , but not so deep . |
| 7 | 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 . |