Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [prep] the days " in BNC.
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| 1 | In consequence we must grow harder , more ruthless than we were in the days of ease . |
| 2 | And so , drawing together the threads of this obsessive preoccupation with the civility of ‘ Old England ’ which had been ripped apart by a new strain of hot-blooded and un-English violence , the Old Thunderer arrived at a truly horrific conclusion : ‘ Our streets are actually not as safe as they were in the days of our grandfathers . |
| 3 | The inevitable result is that the more adventurous or less safe ways of operating public transport aircraft are far less common now than they were before the days of flight recorders . |
| 4 | well done , I never can get that word out I stumble with it every time and that gets a signal from the brain that says this is a difficult situation this is something I 'm not used to this is some I it 's very primitive it 's it 's from the days in the jungle or whatever er a fear of fright over absolute it 's fight or flight , and that 's why you start breathing quicker because the blood wants more oxygen because it 's ready to run or to fight because the muscles , it is |
| 5 | The British Tommy 's good humour will be appreciated by the Burman of today as it was during the days of the Rangoon riots in 1939 . |
| 6 | In spite of all the technological developments land sophistication and speed of modern communication , the point of a campaign roadshow is the same as it was in the days of the whistle-stop tour when politicians addressed voters from the backs of trains : to communicate with the maximum number of people in the short time available . |
| 7 | It was in the days before soldiers were housed in barracks and were left to their own devices in the taverns and private houses in which they were billetted . |
| 8 | ‘ One player is n't going to make a team and international rugby is more about team planning and preparation these days than it was in the days of the great Welsh outside halves . ’ |
| 9 | The South-East has increased its pre-eminence in both absolute numbers and share of the national population but generally the regional batting order remains much as it was in the days of W. G. Grace . |
| 10 | The theatre is a more enterprising place of entertainment now than it was in the days , early in the last century , when , as a small boy , the great French writer Victor Hugo stayed in Bayonne for a month , on his way to meet his father , a general in the Napoleonic army in Spain . |
| 11 | However , as a resource of what is a question in a flagging economy which is unlikely in the near future to be in search of recruits to the labour force from marginal groups , as it was in the days of labour shortage in the 1950s ( Harper and Thane , 1989 ) . |