Example sentences of "[noun sg] than there [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean th th th the clan links in the south were much stronger than they were in the north , and therefore there might be even greater commercial landlord opposition to land reform than there had been in the north . |
| 2 | As one settlement worker remarked , while the after-care committees provided ‘ many more opportunities for direct personal service than there had been in the past ’ , the exchange system brought the home visitors and the club managers into the ‘ industrial side ’ and , therefore , united the social and industrial welfare of adolescents . |
| 3 | By the end of the 1970s there was substantially more conflict between central and local government than there had been before and , by the early 1980s , not only was Labour in control of almost every urban council — even when very weak at national level — but in some places the controlling Labour groups had swung dramatically to the left . |
| 4 | There is less scorn in the novel than there had been in the article , and a pity that must have come as surprise to readers of his work . |
| 5 | The economic crisis following the Black Death had undoubtedly given men of enterprise the opportunity to better their condition , and there was probably more mobility of population in the fifteenth century than there had been in the thirteenth . |