Example sentences of "it [vb past] be in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been in a pocket diary , and the names of the faraway places written on it were like magic — Africa , Australia , China , Equator , Printed in Hong Kong , Iceland … . |
| 2 | Why she was here , she could n't imagine ; but her head was clearer than it had been in a long time , which meant that she must have gone for some hours without any kind of an injection . |
| 3 | Although the LDP enjoyed an overall majority in the House of Representatives ( the lower chamber of the Diet ) , it had been in a minority in the 252-seat upper chamber , the House of Councillors , since the elections of July 1989 [ see pp. 36800-01 ] . |
| 4 | Thereafter , with its circulation collapsing , it had been in a state of crisis . |
| 5 | His body felt that it had been in a terrible accident . |
| 6 | Under his aegis , the gulf in personal resources between rich and poor became very much wider than it had been in the period 1945–79 . |
| 7 | The British attitude to Europe remained as functional and piecemeal as it had been in the time of Ernest Bevin after 1945 . |
| 8 | Such is the speed of decline ( GNP in the first three months of 1991 was 8% lower than it had been in the same period of 1990 , imports were 45% lower ) that , if this plan fails , the next one may be either an economic state of emergency imposed under martial law , or a kaleidoscope of programmes started by republics after the Soviet Union breaks up . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Migration may have been a factor in the 1920s , though the level of net migration from Britain was somewhat less than it had been in the previous two decades . |
| 11 | It had been in the possession of Henry , Prince of Wales , prior to his accession in 1413 . |
| 12 | It was just that at the moment of climax when the escape had to be attempted or abandoned , it became if attempted something quite different from what it had been in the planning . |
| 13 | The singing of the choirs was less assured here than it had been in the group of European folk songs , arranged and conducted by Duncan Hanner at the start of the concert . |
| 14 | Although some of the official assessments of cattle stealing in Kurunagala at the turn of the century may have been over-optimistic , it is clear that the level of the crime in the district , and more generally the Northern Band , was much less than it had been in the 1880s and earlier . |
| 15 | There was no effect on my mind at all , but my body felt as though it had been in the sun too long . |
| 16 | This was quite as true when Tabitha Jute met Marco Metz in Schiaparelli as it had been in the days of the Big Step , years before she was born . |
| 17 | By 1885 the area under wheat was already 30 per cent smaller than it had been in the previous decade . |
| 18 | and Jacobitism than it had been in the previous year , yet Craigbarnet 's plight was serious and a failure to help him would offend many . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Nevertheless it seems that the eleventh-century history of princely houses was more mundane , more businesslike , than it had been in the past . |
| 22 | Well before 1330 the Angevin Empire had ceased to be the dynamic and significant political force that it had been in the mid and late twelfth century . |
| 23 | Government efforts to promote national unity and identity and improved communications contributed to Japanese society 's becoming more homogeneous by the early twentieth century than it had been in the Tokugawa period . |
| 24 | Edward IV and Henry VII made land revenue far more important than it had been in the past , until by 1509 it slightly exceeded the yield from customs . |
| 25 | But in practice the intrusion of the laity into government service made it rather less like a twentieth-century bureaucracy than it had been in the later middle ages . |
| 26 | When challenged to say what was on his mind , he replied that he had been wondering whether it would ever be given to him to make France great again , as it had been in the days of Charlemagne . |
| 27 | The US still carried much of the burden of NATO defence and undoubtedly remained the most powerful state in the world , but its relative superiority to other states was not what it had been in the 1950s . |
| 28 | Looking around the bedroom , she saw that it was almost exactly as it had been in the photograph , although now there was a book open and face downwards on the patchwork quilt . |
| 29 | In the fourth century , Athenian democracy was curtailed in ways harder to resist than a Hyperbolus , who could simply be got rid of : the institutionalized power of the men who administered the various state funds grew in the course of the fourth century , and as such people got above themselves Athens became a less democratic place than it had been in the fifth century . |
| 30 | Pop was no longer a community of youth as it had been in the sixties , nor a means of changing society , but a meaningless marketing exercise which deserved to be exposed for the charade that it was . |