Example sentences of "they [vb past] be [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The impression they created was of two young men , very smart , well-spoken , trading high-value stones for far too much money , ’ Mr Curtis told the jury . |
| 2 | On average prices were around 25 per cent lower between 1720 and 1780 than they had been between 1660 and 1680 . |
| 3 | They had been above 8000 metres for several days and Steve recalls being as ‘ nutty as a fruit-cake ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ They had been against one another for a long time . |
| 5 | Although there had been brief conflicts between England and France in the reigns of Edward I and Edward II , the reasons for war were now much more substantial than they had been in 1294 or 1324 , and the will to war on the part of the king , if not yet on the part of most of the nobility , was much more apparent . |
| 6 | After the first thirty years of operation of the NHS , however , there had been disappointingly little change ; in 1976 , the Court Report noted that the variations in regional provision of service were still much the same as they had been in 1948 when the NHS began . |
| 7 | The irony was that the economic returns expected from the reforms were hardly gained at all , and the railways were really no nearer paying their way by the end of 1966 than they had been in 1962 . |
| 8 | The economics , ethics and effects of discounting were not the talking point they had been in 1991 . |
| 9 | No such state emerged , however , and 1945 found them no farther along the road than they had been in 1918 . |
| 10 | Chidzero admitted that Zimbabweans were financially worse off in 1989 than they had been in 1982 . |
| 11 | Customs duties rose under Mary and landed income fell in real terms : by 1603 the two were nearly level , as they had been in 1509 . |
| 12 | With almost as much of an increase in the volume of exports and an even greater one in that of re-exports , ports engaged in foreign trade were , as a group , handling four times as much cargo in 1800 as they had been in 1700 , and perhaps two and a half times as much as in 1750 . |
| 13 | The Fortresses and Liberators of the USAAF , escorted by long-range fighters , were penetrating the defences — which were now much more formidable than they had been in 1940/41 . |
| 14 | Trade unions were in fact in a much stronger position in 1933 than they had been in 1921 or 1922 . |
| 15 | Some new measures had , of course , been necessary , but on the whole changes brought about by the war were less incisive than they had been in 1914 . |
| 16 | In other words , quite apart from the franchise changes that did the party no net harm , the changes of 1918–21 transformed the Unionists from the natural minority that they had been in 1914 to a natural majority party until the Second World War . |
| 17 | Henry VII continued this exploitation of the Crown estates , which were far more extensive than they had been in 1433 . |