Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pers pn] have [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( In fact , the French lines there on February 21st were no better prepared than they had been on the Right Bank , and the rejoinder that if he had not had adequate forces he should not have undertaken the offensive in the first place is almost too obvious ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I was eventually given my clothes back , but they were all muddy and damp because I 'd been on gardens . |
| 7 | you know er , it 's funny since I 've been on a diet er , it is , I must be getting , now where |
| 8 | ‘ I always feel sort of furtive and illicit after I 've been with Sebastian . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For instance , Yadin Dudai in Jerusalem , amongst others , has exploited the behavioural and biochemical possibilities opened up by mutations amongst fruit flies ; for him and some other neurobiologists Drosophila has become as popular as it has been for most of this century for geneticists . |
| 12 | I do not doubt that over the next 20 years the Community 's evolution will be as marked as it has been in the nearly 20 years since we joined . |
| 13 | Henry VII continued this exploitation of the Crown estates , which were far more extensive than they had been in 1433 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Such an attitude required fresh springs of energy , and the effect — I was delighted to sense it as I woke each day — was to make me more bouncy and mettlesome than I had been for weeks . |
| 16 | Maybe they 're more cauti cautious than we have been in this country about the effect of Chernobyl . |
| 17 | ‘ To be honest if I 'd been on my own I would n't have gone ahead with it , ’ says Avril . |
| 18 | They were unfortunate in that batting conditions for them were not as favourable as they had been for the West Indians . |
| 19 | Encouraged by the pride of the town authorities , the Guy Fawkes celebrations provided an annual explosion for the town 's poor : deprived as they had been of saints ' days with the advent of Puritanism , they came from the miserable hovels cramped in the town 's back alleys to protest not only against the symbols of oppression but also , in bad years , against the local oligarchy . |
| 20 | But at least a dream of empire was not as impossible as it had been in 1558 . |
| 21 | It needs to be granted , certainly , that in speaking of a thing 's properties one is not always speaking of individual properties , and that the proponents of more traditional solutions to the problem of universals , unsuccessful though they have been in their own proposals , have made trouble for the solution in terms of individual properties . |
| 22 | For a split second Joseph looked as agitated as he had been on the Jonquil the day after the murder . |
| 23 | It 's still as pure as it has been for thousands of years . ’ |
| 24 | The rather frayed drapes , either side of the tall windows , had a silky sheen in the soft lamplight , the scratched furniture and the threadbare state of the rugs no longer as visible as they had been under the brilliant glare of the harsh overhead light . |
| 25 | The children will not be back from their boarding school and it would have looked very odd if they had been in the same country and not together on his birthday . |
| 26 | The effort of giving Sam as much exercise as he wanted made Albert more fit than he had been for years . |
| 27 | During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while . |
| 28 | In early 1986 , my foot finally healed and I began to train as if I was as fit as I had been before my injury . |
| 29 | Some new measures had , of course , been necessary , but on the whole changes brought about by the war were less incisive than they had been in 1914 . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the relationship between politics and historiography was incomparably more complex than it had been in Stalin 's day . |