Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] had been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | But during the 1980s , subsidies have been progressively removed , and the IMF-sponsored auction of the local currency ( the kwacha ) meant that by 1987 its purchasing power was only one-third what it had been in 1983 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | King 's Cross was not what it had been in her day . |
| 35 | The paganism of the eastern Angles over the next two or three years suggests that Eadwine 's influence in the region was no longer what it had been in Eorpwald 's lifetime . |
| 36 | I knew it could n't be restored to what it had been in the old days , but there was still room for a club where members had fun rather than did business . |
| 37 | By 1990 cash spending on the NHS was two and a half times what it had been in 1979 , topping £27 billion and making the DOH the second largest spending department ( NAHAT 1990 ) . |
| 38 | In Britain , the Beeching Report on ‘ Reshaping the Railways ’ ( BRB 1963 ) led to a programme of closures and cutbacks that by 1968 had halved the number of stations , closed 8,000 km of route , halved the number of goods wagons and sharply reduced passenger services ; by 1970 , railway employment was less than half what it had been in 1963 . |
| 39 | His income was less than a half of what it had been before 1914 , and lie was losing capital too . |