Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it had be for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , she kept the place tidier than it had been for months and she did n't mistreat Springsteen , or if she did he did n't complain about it . |
| 2 | The sky was clearer than it had been for a week , and massive , but hardly elegant , Storskarfjell stood out like a white tent . |
| 3 | During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while . |
| 4 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |
| 5 | Indeed , it was better than it had been for months . |
| 6 | Police reports suggested that the countryside was more quiescent than it had been for generations . |
| 7 | Morale on the shop floor was higher than it had been for a long year and an unhealthy atmosphere of optimism and hope pervaded the plant . |
| 8 | They used computers instead of quill pens , but the outcome of their labours was still the same as it had been for centuries — trade , the buying and selling of things that other people made . |