Example sentences of "than it had be [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its autonomy was , however , short-lived , and although it was probably no less active than it had been under Henry VII , Wolsey 's domineering conduct thrust it into subservience . |
| 2 | It was all so much easier , somehow , than it had been with Christopher . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Police reports suggested that the countryside was more quiescent than it had been for generations . |
| 5 | Indeed , it was better than it had been for months . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Her father 's order book was better filled than it had been for years , her mother 's health seemed good , Eileen was happy in her work as a pools clerk , and Tony and Helen were happily planning their wedding . |
| 8 | hurricane has gone out of the news now , once something like that has happened there 's always another disaster coming behind that actually takes over the headlines , so , about six months , a year , two years afterwards they were still finding that in parts of Europe the general level of nuclear activity was higher than it had been before Chernobyl , why would that happen ? |
| 9 | It was piercingly cold , too — much colder than it had been in Kent . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the relationship between politics and historiography was incomparably more complex than it had been in Stalin 's day . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In a painting such as the Female Figure , executed in the winter of 1910–11 , the subject is still much more easily recognizable than it had been in Picasso 's Cadaquès work , or even in the Portrait of Kahnweiler . |