Example sentences of "it [vb past] be at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christmas of 1919 seems to have been vastly more festive than it had been at the workhouse in , say , the Dickensian days of 1844 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | From the thin , wretched creature it had been at the beginning of the siege it had become quite fat , for recently it had succeeded in eating two small lap-dogs which had unwisely fallen asleep in its presence . |
| 4 | His kingdom had come some considerable way from the remote and backward region it had been at the beginning of the seventh century . |
| 5 | If it had been at the border they 'd have given him five or even ten . ’ |
| 6 | USSR Interior Minister Boris Pugo explained that it had been at the request of a " national salvation committee " formed by the pro-Moscow Lithuanian CP on Jan. 11 , after its members were allegedly beaten up outside parliament as they protested against " anti-Soviet slander " in the media . |
| 7 | By then the population of Indians , about a million , was just over a quarter what it had been at the time of the European colonizations of the sixteenth century . |
| 8 | By the late 1930s , the birth rate was about three-quarters of what it had been at the end of the First World War . |
| 9 | Within 20 years the Prussians had ruined what remained of Danzig 's grain trade and the population of the city had plummeted to what it had been at the end of the fourteenth century . |
| 10 | He would surprise everyone by getting a new speech right , but then show that it had been at the expense of other sections of dialogue . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Then he remembered ; appropriately enough it had been at the party when Slater had first introduced Graham and Sara to each other . |