Example sentences of "it had been [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time Mr Carlisle arrived in the right Roman town days after the original date for the hearing he was left wondering if it had been worth the bother . |
| 2 | It had been worth the risk . |
| 3 | For the next few minutes I had to put up with Sid 's reminiscences about how much worse it had been during the campaign in North Africa . |
| 4 | France 's diplomatic successes had made little impact on English opinion , and English military leadership was markedly weaker than it had been during the first phase of the war . |
| 5 | Perhaps " acquaintance " would be a fairer description than " friend " , but the difference was clearer in peacetime than it had been during the war . |
| 6 | It was not qualitatively different on the eve of the French Revolution from what it had been during the reign of Louis XIV . |
| 7 | The Jewish community continued to be led by the Chief Rabbi , as it had been under the Byzantine emperors . |
| 8 | In 613 the kingdom was reunited , as it had been under the previous Chlothar in 558 . |
| 9 | Improvement ensued under Tub LM1 ( again taken from a 5ml dropper bottle ) although the patient commented that the wheeziness was n't as clear as it had been on the first Phosphorus . |
| 10 | Furthermore , the injury rate on the softer track dropped to less than half what it had been on the previous track . |
| 11 | When the Bishops moved into the house 10 years ago , it had been on the market for 18 months and had become very run down . |
| 12 | It it had been on the agenda before . |
| 13 | Once it had been on the top deck of a multistorey car park in town , with shoppers passing only a few feet away on the other side of a layer of tinted glass , and she 'd felt like a tight-fitting skin over a multiple explosion that was sounding off again and again and again . |
| 14 | It was not as thick as it had been on the night Mary Lou Evans had died , but it was still sufficient to reduce visibility to about 30 - 40 yards . |
| 15 | ‘ When he came back he announced it was the King who had died in his sleep and it had been on the wireless . ’ |
| 16 | It is unlikely that anti-Semitism was as powerful in its motivational force for recruits in the Party 's ‘ mass phase ’ after 1929–30 as it had been for the early activist core of the NSDAP . |
| 17 | It was a fortress town and a trading centre , as it had been for the Romans 800 years earlier . |
| 18 | In all the most important affairs of life , liberty remained for him what it had been for the last thirty years , a state of will which could not depart from rectitude . |
| 19 | It was how it had been for the past two weeks and the young woman tried to ignore her protesting muscles and her aching back as she stared into the hearth and watched the tiny flames flickering in and out of the carefully banked-up grate . |
| 20 | The old imperial line of communication through the Mediterranean , Suez Canal , Red Sea and Indian Ocean to the Far East and the Antipodes would be just as important to the Commonwealth as it had been to the colonial Empire . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | By the late 1930s , the birth rate was about three-quarters of what it had been at the end of the First World War . |
| 23 | The torrent here was almost as fearsome as it had been at the original crossing point , but not so deep . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If it had been at the border they 'd have given him five or even ten . ’ |
| 26 | Christmas of 1919 seems to have been vastly more festive than it had been at the workhouse in , say , the Dickensian days of 1844 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |