Example sentences of "had [been] at the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Sheila Payne , from the Department of Psychology , University of Exeter , has discovered that women being treated for breast or ovarian cancer were much more anxious half-way through their treatment than they had been at the beginning . |
| 2 | England was something like a nation by the closing stages of the Hundred Years War with France in the mid-fifteenth century , and France was certainly much more like a nation at the end of the war than she had been at the beginning . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It had been a puzzle that they could be knocked around in interaction with each other and yet emerge unscathed , the same as they had been at the beginning . |
| 6 | His kingdom had come some considerable way from the remote and backward region it had been at the beginning of the seventh century . |
| 7 | Her only chance to escape had been at the beginning , when Miguel had loomed above her as she lay in the garden . |
| 8 | I did n't think she was ever going to be as appealing as Frances , but I hoped that by the end of the book she would be a little more appealing than she had been at the beginning . ’ |