Example sentences of "than [pers pn] [vb past] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conditions were better for fishing now than they 'd been all night . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Most head teachers questioned thought the position was worse than it had been five years earlier . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | On leaving the stall they plunged into the hall which was bedlam , and far fuller than it had been that morning . |
| 7 | The ground fire was much worse than it had been that morning . |
| 8 | The marsh-mist was far denser than it had been last night , and there was nothing solid to give direction anywhere . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She climbed down , aware suddenly of how close he was to her , closer than he had been all morning , and when she turned , it was to find him looking down at her , a strange expression in his eyes . |