Example sentences of "what [pron] have [adv] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Yet , all in all , farming and the farm remained visibly what they had always been in most parts of the world : more prosperous in the developed areas , and hence investing more heavily in improvements , buildings , etc. , more businesslike in many places , but not transformed out of recognition . |
2 | ‘ Work , ’ she told him quietly , her eyes seeking the dark depths of his for something that would relate to what they had once been to each other in Seville . |
3 | By the late 1980s , the attractions of city life were not what they had once been for the peasants . |
4 | Pop had returned to what it had always been about : the personal as the realm in which the meaning of your life is resolved . |
5 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |