Example sentences of "[vb past] be before [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gang-girl she had been seemed as remote from her as the child she had been before that . |
| 2 | A combination of administrative and economic factors favoured the revival of organized stealing during the final decade of British rule , but given the growth of population and the more efficient reporting system the extent of the crime was not as great as it had been before 1890 . |
| 3 | Merceron was not reappointed as a justice of the peace , but in other respects he was as much in control ( either directly or through his brother-in-law , who became vestry clerk ) as he had been before 1809 . |
| 4 | Although , as suggested earlier , their standard of living was higher it had been before 1914 their social position and status remained unchanged . |
| 5 | The Labour Party … remained as it had been before 1914 — propagandist and evangelical . |
| 6 | His income was less than a half of what it had been before 1914 , and lie was losing capital too . |
| 7 | If the movement of the workers had been clearly revolutionary , or at least sharply segregated from the middle-class world ( as it had been before 1848 and was to be again in the era of the second International ) , the distinction would have been clear enough . |