Example sentences of "than it [verb] be [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its autonomy was , however , short-lived , and although it was probably no less active than it had been under Henry VII , Wolsey 's domineering conduct thrust it into subservience . |
| 2 | It was all so much easier , somehow , than it had been with Christopher . |
| 3 | Visibility on the water was slightly better than it had been on land — there were no hummocks , and somehow night never seems quite so dark at sea as on land . |
| 4 | Police reports suggested that the countryside was more quiescent than it had been for generations . |
| 5 | Indeed , it was better than it had been for months . |
| 6 | Still , she kept the place tidier than it had been for months and she did n't mistreat Springsteen , or if she did he did n't complain about it . |
| 7 | Her father 's order book was better filled than it had been for years , her mother 's health seemed good , Eileen was happy in her work as a pools clerk , and Tony and Helen were happily planning their wedding . |
| 8 | hurricane has gone out of the news now , once something like that has happened there 's always another disaster coming behind that actually takes over the headlines , so , about six months , a year , two years afterwards they were still finding that in parts of Europe the general level of nuclear activity was higher than it had been before Chernobyl , why would that happen ? |
| 9 | It was piercingly cold , too — much colder than it had been in Kent . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the relationship between politics and historiography was incomparably more complex than it had been in Stalin 's day . |
| 11 | During 1985 this issue was raised once again , though by then the extent of mass unemployment and urban de-industrialization and decay was more stark than it had been in 198l . |
| 12 | In a painting such as the Female Figure , executed in the winter of 1910–11 , the subject is still much more easily recognizable than it had been in Picasso 's Cadaquès work , or even in the Portrait of Kahnweiler . |
| 13 | As in this family , there is some migration of young people from the rural areas to the towns of Northern Ireland but this movement is less than it has been in Scotland or England during the last 40 years . |
| 14 | Unless the UN proved much tougher in Bosnia than it has been in Croatia , the Owen concession would have meant that , from Serb-held territories in Croatia through Serb-held territories in Bosnia to the border of Serbia itself , Serbs would remain in control , whatever the peace plan said . |