Example sentences of "of what it [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French monarchy under Louis XVI was by contrast in many ways a shadow of what it had been under Louis XIV . |
| 2 | By the late 1930s , the birth rate was about three-quarters of what it had been at the end of the First World War . |
| 3 | It was sad when it died ; sad because of the memory of what it had been like when there was still hope . |
| 4 | Before I left , I told Eliot that I was still toying with the idea of writing the book on politics , which had increasingly been absorbing me , and I described to him something of what it had been like to live under a benevolent dictatorship . |
| 5 | He always paid now , they were on the dole , two reminders of what it had been like for him a few months ago . |
| 6 | His income was less than a half of what it had been before 1914 , and lie was losing capital too . |
| 7 | Since the total grain harvest proved to be a mere 52 per cent of what it had been in 1913 , even the least affected areas had barely enough . |
| 8 | The level of truck loadings for 1922 was under one-third of what it had been in 1913 , although there was a vast improvement towards the end of the year . |