Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside Europe the struggle in the sugar islands was less destructive than it had been 50 or 60 years earlier . |
| 2 | Even so , the decision of the 19th Palestine National Council in November 1988 to take this highly accommodationist road was not an easy one , and was only possible because it had become apparent that the world now recognized that no substantive peace negotiations were likely to materialize without formal PLO participation . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Her step was much lighter than it had been the previous day , but when she saw that her inquisitor was n't the Obersturmfuhrer , her heart sank . |
| 5 | And animal minds , a fortiori , do not engage in this sort of computation ( which is why the Punch cartoon would have been less funny if it had shown a human fisherman ) . |
| 6 | Secondly , the raising of the school leaving age in 1947 meant that the difference between types of secondary schooling was not so marked as it had been . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | — Edwardian working-class sport as a whole was less violent than it had been a half-century before . |
| 10 | The plane was loaded down so much that it had difficulty in skimming the tops of those large mountains , but I was not troubled , thinking that the pilot was a well-trained American , until after an hour of this mountain hopping a small Chinese face appeared at the cockpit door and said , ‘ Is you all all-lite ? ’ |
| 11 | I would not have minded the motion tonight quite so much if it had been given an honest title , such as the General Election ( Clearing the Decks ) Motion , or whatever title the Leader of the House wanted to give it . |
| 12 | The decor , like the dress of those outside , was simpler — the design of chairs and table less extravagant than it had been . |
| 13 | In many ways I was greatly relieved as it had become obvious to me that he was n't well . |
| 14 | Here the new head had recently approached the teacher-librarian in the hope that the school might become involved in the ESSE/L Project , apparently unaware that it had received a Minor award three or so years before . |
| 15 | And it was so appalling that it had a genuine effect on public opinion . |
| 16 | Yet not so rotten that it had obscured the carved initials at the base of the grip . |
| 17 | It was , he noticed , distinctly less warm than it had been , with an east wind blowing as they turned into the Parade . |
| 18 | It was all much as it had been the first time , only evening instead of morning ; and Emily stood by herself as before , and now he knew why , wearing his ring on another finger . |
| 19 | The scene that greeted her at the top was already less frightening than it had been when Phoebe arrived . |
| 20 | It was not perhaps natural but it had served him well , Nicholas knew , from the beginning . |
| 21 | The snow was blinding but had blown so hard that it had not yet formed a blanket on the land . |
| 22 | The garden is so large because it had been a ‘ deese ’ , meaning , in Sussex parlance , a drying ground for herring ; dried they became bloaters for which Rye is famed . |
| 23 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |
| 24 | Until now its speed had been so great that it had grown into a ravening monster , capable not only of swallowing the Residency , but of gulping down the banqueting hall as well . |
| 25 | What is so odd , though , is that Lewis was tempted to argue the faith , to analyse and defend it in a manner at once so roughshod and so cerebral when it had come to him by quite other means . |
| 26 | Here was a country so backward that it had only one landing strip , a mile of tarmacadam road , six schools and two hospitals that were really little more than clinics . |
| 27 | any income chargeable to income tax by deduction or otherwise ( first limb ) ; and 2. any income which would have been so chargeable if it had been received in the United Kingdom by a person domiciled , resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( second limb ) . |
| 28 | How could she tell this impossible Dane that for some wild , unaccountable moment the previous evening , when his mouth had joined with hers , she 'd imagined they shared a mutual attraction so powerful that it had overridden any man-made measurement of time or propriety ? |
| 29 | It was piercingly cold , too — much colder than it had been in Kent . |
| 30 | The most important recent decision , Jones v Sherwood Computer Services plc [ 1991 ] NPC 60 , was first published outside LEXIS eighteen months after the judgment following a complaint from the judge in Nikko Hotels ( UK ) Ltd v MEPC plc [ 1991 ] 28 EG 86 that it had not been reported . |