Example sentences of "[Wh det] it had be [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1950 and 1975 the female proportion of the working population rose from 33 per cent ( which it had been since the 1890s ) to over 40 per cent ( Hunt , 1975 ) . |
| 2 | Furthermore , the injury rate on the softer track dropped to less than half what it had been on the previous track . |
| 3 | By the late 1930s , the birth rate was about three-quarters of what it had been at the end of the First World War . |
| 4 | Within 20 years the Prussians had ruined what remained of Danzig 's grain trade and the population of the city had plummeted to what it had been at the end of the fourteenth century . |
| 5 | By then the population of Indians , about a million , was just over a quarter what it had been at the time of the European colonizations of the sixteenth century . |
| 6 | In all the most important affairs of life , liberty remained for him what it had been for the last thirty years , a state of will which could not depart from rectitude . |
| 7 | It was not qualitatively different on the eve of the French Revolution from what it had been during the reign of Louis XIV . |
| 8 | It was just that at the moment of climax when the escape had to be attempted or abandoned , it became if attempted something quite different from what it had been in the planning . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I knew it could n't be restored to what it had been in the old days , but there was still room for a club where members had fun rather than did business . |