Example sentences of "[vb past] be [adj] year [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't want to understand him , but heated recognition rippled through her as she stared at his mouth , as unwillingly fascinated by its sensual curve as she had been six years ago , when all her breathlessly adored heroes had suddenly become prosaic and petty with the advent of the man from Hong Kong . |
| 2 | It was Marguerite as she had been many years ago , and Jenna saw what her father had seen , what she herself saw now — the attraction of kindness , of calm good humour . |
| 3 | Fräulein had been two years already at The Towers . |
| 4 | The ensuing reforms were implemented piecemeal and did not fundamentally change the system , but procedure was considerably more summary by 1900 than it had been fifty years earlier . |
| 5 | What was perhaps most crucial to the success of Impressionism in financial terms was its modern stance , as closely identified with contemporary life at the turn of the century as Romanticism had been fifty years before . |
| 6 | What had Julius seen in the nineteen-year-old girl she had been five years ago that had made him want to grab her and marry her , without even really knowing her ? |
| 7 | Most head teachers questioned thought the position was worse than it had been five years earlier . |
| 8 | He was a mainstay of City government in the crisis caused by plague in 1593 , when he was in his seventies , just as he had been thirty years before , in the devastating epidemic of 1563 . |
| 9 | But that had been thirty years before , and the British were still there . |
| 10 | What she did was to go through her cupboards , where she discovered a dress which had once belonged to Clara 's cousin , and which had been enclosed years before in a charitable parcel of hands-on . |
| 11 | That had been twelve years ago , just one year after the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council had promoted him to Director at the Atomic Energy Commission . |
| 12 | Have n't talked since that marvellous Bassanio you did at the Vic ’ — that had been fifteen years before — ‘ lovely performance . ’ |
| 13 | SHE CORRESPONDED WITH AN EXPERT ON THE CHURCH , WHO TOLD HER THAT THE CHURCH SHE HAD ‘ SEEN ’ WAS THE CHURCH AS IT HAD BEEN 400 YEARS AGO , BEFORE IT HAD BEEN REBUILT IN 1553 . |
| 14 | This image of a pion transmuting was as important to particle physics as Rutherford 's discovery of the transmutation of the elements had been 40 years earlier . |
| 15 | The concentration of production in a few firms was considerably more marked in 1970 than it had been 15 years earlier , and many economists attribute around half the increase in concentration in the 1960s to the merger boom during those years . |
| 16 | The hands moved away , downwards , across the hard muscle of his stomach that was as tough and flat as it had been ten years ago , when he was eighteen . |
| 17 | The division of the movement suggested this and the spectre of a resurgent Germany under Hitler 's leadership made Fascism as alien as Bolshevism had been ten years before . |
| 18 | In 1973 Esquire magazine asked a number of famous people where they had been ten years earlier when they heard that John Kennedy was assassinated . |
| 19 | The windows had been broken years ago but the railway company had boarded the frames up with wooden battens which were very effective ; they did however allow a view into the building and although the children could see in they were fascinated with the place and were happy playing in the cutting . |
| 20 | In Berlin , Bismarck pretended to believe that the internal instability affecting France presented a danger to the peace of Europe , remarking to the British Ambassador that : ‘ If the present Constitutional Government in France had been three years instead of three months in existence , there would be some chance for its duration and the maintenance of peace . ’ |
| 21 | I enjoyed the gnocchi in a friendly watering hole along the road , however , and the Elban wine was just as good as it had been 30 years ago . |
| 22 | He was a vassal , as indeed his father had been forty years earlier . |
| 23 | From 1859 caves became exciting to geologists , as they had been forty years earlier when Buckland looked for evidence of the Deluge . |