Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it [vb past] [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bedford was the only new earl created by Edward III after his family settlement in 1362 , and his patronage of the nobility was markedly less generous than it had been in the first two decades of his reign . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | John Stevenson feels that this urban migration was important in restructuring the population of Britain , although Glynn and Oxborrow argue that this internal migration was less marked than it had been in the nineteenth century — being about one third of its former level . |
| 4 | Although the influence of Cubism on the German painters was less direct than it had been in the development of Futurism ( the work of Delaunay which the Germans most admired , for instance , was no longer really Cubist at all ) , unlike the Italians the Germans made no attempt to disguise their interest in the movement , and several of the artists of the Blaue Reiter actually thought of themselves as Cubist painters . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Although the number of recorded offences in that decade was not as high as it had been in the 1950s it is nevertheless an important trend . |
| 7 | Such is the speed of decline ( GNP in the first three months of 1991 was 8% lower than it had been in the same period of 1990 , imports were 45% lower ) that , if this plan fails , the next one may be either an economic state of emergency imposed under martial law , or a kaleidoscope of programmes started by republics after the Soviet Union breaks up . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The customs accounts there for the decade 1450–60 show that the average annual export of broadcloths , by both denizens and aliens , was a third lower than it had been in the years 1440–50 ( 94 , pp.334–5 ) . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | During 1985 this issue was raised once again , though by then the extent of mass unemployment and urban de-industrialization and decay was more stark than it had been in 198l . |
| 13 | The sky was clearer than it had been for a week , and massive , but hardly elegant , Storskarfjell stood out like a white tent . |
| 14 | Why she was here , she could n't imagine ; but her head was clearer than it had been in a long time , which meant that she must have gone for some hours without any kind of an injection . |
| 15 | But at least a dream of empire was not as impossible as it had been in 1558 . |
| 16 | SOON THEY BECAME VERY MUCH AS IT HAD BEEN BEFORE THEIR separation , except that Gina was a little more violent . |
| 17 | The flask was a deal emptier than it had been before the dinner break . |
| 18 | The nation had also become economically and demographically stagnant : heavy industrial production lagged behind Britain and Germany , nearly a third of people still lived off the land , and in 1940 the population ( at about 40 million ) was little larger than it had been in 1900 . |
| 19 | During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while . |
| 20 | From Table 4.1 we can see that the ‘ total working and available for work ’ in Northern Tyne side was roughly the same in 1984 as it had been in 1972 , i.e. under 300 000 . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the relationship between politics and historiography was incomparably more complex than it had been in Stalin 's day . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Visibility on the water was slightly better than it had been on land — there were no hummocks , and somehow night never seems quite so dark at sea as on land . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Indeed , it was better than it had been for months . |
| 26 | It was piercingly cold , too — much colder than it had been in Kent . |
| 27 | The torrent here was almost as fearsome as it had been at the original crossing point , but not so deep . |
| 28 | Opposition to Home Rule was put on ice for the duration with the Bill , but opposition was as genuine in 1918 as it had been in 1914 . |
| 29 | This was quite as true when Tabitha Jute met Marco Metz in Schiaparelli as it had been in the days of the Big Step , years before she was born . |
| 30 | 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 . |