Example sentences of "[adv] [Wh det] it [vb past] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The paganism of the eastern Angles over the next two or three years suggests that Eadwine 's influence in the region was no longer what it had been in Eorpwald 's lifetime . |
| 2 | The US still carried much of the burden of NATO defence and undoubtedly remained the most powerful state in the world , but its relative superiority to other states was not what it had been in the 1950s . |
| 3 | King 's Cross was not what it had been in her day . |
| 4 | His position was now exactly what it had been during his exile in Rufus 's reign : he was without an income and reduced to dependence on the hospitality of Hugh of Lyons . |
| 5 | The essence of European diplomacy was still political , still what it had been to Metternich or even to Richelieu . |