Example sentences of "it have [be] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The castle walls surround the medieval town , which is still inhabited as it has been for hundreds of years . |
| 2 | Although annual rail investment , at more than £1bn , is currently higher than it has been for three decades , that results from decisions taken two to three years ago . |
| 3 | The mute swan population stands at the highest it has been for 40 years . |
| 4 | It 's still as pure as it has been for thousands of years . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't think this is merely habit , ’ he said , ‘ though habit it has been for twenty-five years . |
| 6 | And in fact housing is more affordable now , than it has been for twenty five or thirty years . |
| 7 | And we went , because it , it 'd been at five o'clock you see , it 'd been up to the second , that was when it was up to the second step |
| 8 | But Spain would never again be as politically and economically isolated as it had been between 1945 and 1950 . |
| 9 | But , I think it would be illusory to think that we can maintain our profits from land in ninety three at the same level as it had been for ninety one and two . |
| 10 | The luncheon table was laid as it had been for 50 Christmases , with a pyramid of polished John Standish apples from Somerset in the middle , flanked by Christmas roses and trails of ivy . |
| 11 | He could hardly have been welcome , because when he had entered the senior police officer 's room it had been with two aides trying to keep him out by every manoeuvre other than manhandling him . |
| 12 | It had been at one time , going back over a hundred and fifty years , it had been what they called a combination poorhouse . |
| 13 | Unionists of the time would scarcely have recognized the terms of the debate , for in 1922 the party was still embroiled with Ireland and the House of Lords , held a smaller share of the popular vote than ever before , and was still split as it had been since 1902 ; few Unionists would have seen the war as a turning-point for the better in the party fortunes . |
| 14 | For Nestor , it was a courageous near-miss , an almost-historic encore that placed Canada closer to the final eight than it had been since 1913 ( when Canada made the Challenge round final — with only nine countries competing ) . |
| 15 | It was substantially enlarged from £30 million per annum to about £125 million per annum , and was transferred from the Home Office ( where it had been since 1968 ) to the Department of the Environment . |
| 16 | A combination of administrative and economic factors favoured the revival of organized stealing during the final decade of British rule , but given the growth of population and the more efficient reporting system the extent of the crime was not as great as it had been before 1890 . |
| 17 | If the movement of the workers had been clearly revolutionary , or at least sharply segregated from the middle-class world ( as it had been before 1848 and was to be again in the era of the second International ) , the distinction would have been clear enough . |
| 18 | Although , as suggested earlier , their standard of living was higher it had been before 1914 their social position and status remained unchanged . |
| 19 | The Labour Party … remained as it had been before 1914 — propagandist and evangelical . |
| 20 | His income was less than a half of what it had been before 1914 , and lie was losing capital too . |
| 21 | Rationing , which still applied to meat , bacon , butter , cheese , tea , sugar and sweets , actually became more austere than it had been in 1945 . |
| 22 | By the time of Waterloo , for those few who could afford the coaches , passenger travel was perhaps four times as fast as it had been in 1750 between major centres and twice as fast elsewhere . |
| 23 | Within the Common Market , Britain in 1989 seemed as much the odd nation out as it had been in 1979 at the time of the rancorous Dublin summit , unable to prevent major changes within the Community by responding in a negative , bad-tempered way . |
| 24 | By 1990 cash spending on the NHS was two and a half times what it had been in 1979 , topping £27 billion and making the DOH the second largest spending department ( NAHAT 1990 ) . |
| 25 | 188 ) was largely ineffective , and at the beginning of the 1980s , the length of the network was slightly greater than it had been in 1964 , despite proposals in the interim ( usually tied to credit agreements with the World Bank ) to consider for closure several thousand kilometres of route . |
| 26 | But at least a dream of empire was not as impossible as it had been in 1558 . |
| 27 | In Britain , the Beeching Report on ‘ Reshaping the Railways ’ ( BRB 1963 ) led to a programme of closures and cutbacks that by 1968 had halved the number of stations , closed 8,000 km of route , halved the number of goods wagons and sharply reduced passenger services ; by 1970 , railway employment was less than half what it had been in 1963 . |
| 28 | Schoolteachers were not expected to engage in research , and by the 1870s this was anyway much more difficult than it had been in 1800 : there was more to master first , and more equipment was needed . |
| 29 | Poor Law expenditure per head of population in 1904–05 was 10 per cent lower than it had been in 1833–34 , although real income per head had doubled in that period . |
| 30 | The heavy furniture of the lobby was still arranged exactly as it had been in 1950 . |