Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ensuing reforms were implemented piecemeal and did not fundamentally change the system , but procedure was considerably more summary by 1900 than it had been fifty years earlier . |
| 2 | Most head teachers questioned thought the position was worse than it had been five years earlier . |
| 3 | Cnut still had a difficult road to travel , but by the end of 1017 some major obstacles already lay behind him , and his position in England was much more secure than it had been twelve months earlier . |
| 4 | ‘ Leith , ’ he said , but his look was no warmer , no less arrogant than it had been all morning , ‘ you do n't … ’ he went on , and seemed slightly stuck for words . |
| 5 | On leaving the stall they plunged into the hall which was bedlam , and far fuller than it had been that morning . |
| 6 | The ground fire was much worse than it had been that morning . |
| 7 | The marsh-mist was far denser than it had been last night , and there was nothing solid to give direction anywhere . |
| 8 | The concentration of production in a few firms was considerably more marked in 1970 than it had been 15 years earlier , and many economists attribute around half the increase in concentration in the 1960s to the merger boom during those years . |
| 9 | yeah I know , actually if it 'd been different equipment I would have cancelled it and said oh sod it , but it 's not , it 's same equipment , so you might as well wait for it |
| 10 | You see , your subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what is real and what is imagined ; so , although the information it had received during those twelve days was in fact a product of Sylvia 's imagination , the effect on her subconscious was precisely the same as if it had been actual experience . |
| 11 | If it had been any priest other than Father Devlin he would have told him to go to hell and mind his own business . |
| 12 | What if it had been some lunatic who sounded like her , someone who had lured her here for a reason . |
| 13 | It was almost a physical pain and for a moment he felt shocked because it had been many years since the agony of losing Gerda . |
| 14 | The drink when it came was hot milk laced with whisky , and Robbie pulled a wry face . |
| 15 | It was shimmering under the surface as it had been all afternoon . |
| 16 | The hands moved away , downwards , across the hard muscle of his stomach that was as tough and flat as it had been ten years ago , when he was eighteen . |
| 17 | SHE CORRESPONDED WITH AN EXPERT ON THE CHURCH , WHO TOLD HER THAT THE CHURCH SHE HAD ‘ SEEN ’ WAS THE CHURCH AS IT HAD BEEN 400 YEARS AGO , BEFORE IT HAD BEEN REBUILT IN 1553 . |
| 18 | I enjoyed the gnocchi in a friendly watering hole along the road , however , and the Elban wine was just as good as it had been 30 years ago . |
| 19 | I cried in surprise , for it had been four years since he disappeared . |