Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pers pn] have been at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The population was becoming less markedly English than it had been at the beginning of the century , with a large number of Ulstermen ( who felt the operation of the leasehold system was squeezing them out of land they had conquered and settled in Ireland ) , Scotsmen , and Germans among the settlers . |
| 2 | The torrent here was almost as fearsome as it had been at the original crossing point , but not so deep . |
| 3 | Although Clare had decided to call in Meg , she did n't ; at first because in the morning things were n't so pressing as they had been at night , and then because she was too busy at the Refuge , and then because it really did n't seem fair . |
| 4 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
| 5 | I did n't think she was ever going to be as appealing as Frances , but I hoped that by the end of the book she would be a little more appealing than she had been at the beginning . ’ |
| 6 | It is a decay that became inevitable when the infamous Beeching Plan substituted the crass motif of economic viability for that of communal need , and ripped out the steel vertebrae of the nation , leaving whole areas more isolated than they had been at any time since the eighteenth century . |
| 7 | Although , as for this last speculation , Harriet could not help thinking that if Liza was still as distressed as she had been at home , she would have been even more likely to let her mother know , for she had never before been one to suffer in silence . |
| 8 | Christmas of 1919 seems to have been vastly more festive than it had been at the workhouse in , say , the Dickensian days of 1844 . |
| 9 | Sophie looked almost as surprised as she had been at Helen 's news . |
| 10 | Although the capacity was restricted to 25,000 , because of the redevelopment of Leeds ' home , the noise and expectancy from the crowd was as intense as it had been at Ibrox . |
| 11 | Hong Kong remains almost as uncompetitive as it has been at anytime since 1986 , and is far less competitive than a year ago . |