Example sentences of "than they had [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as the urban working class was concerned they may well have been better off in the fifteenth century than they had been previously or were to be later . |
| 2 | In the bathroom he peered in the mirror at the creases on his forehead ; surely they were deeper than they had been yesterday . |
| 3 | Too many studios had been built in Britain during the production boom and , at a time when filmmakers were anyway keener than they had been hitherto to get out among ordinary people , they found they were no longer constrained by anxious accountants determined to maximize the use of studio space . |
| 4 | Our findings provide no evidence that non-fundholders were more restricted in their freedom to refer across district boundaries than they had been hitherto . |
| 5 | On the street , a hush below : from a festive air to witnessing a hanging , the crowd — two , three hundred strong , men , women and children ; much , a lot of them , richer than they had been before — looked mutely on . |