Example sentences of "it [vb past] be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This picture of a universe that started off very hot and cooled as it expanded is in agreement with all the observational evidence that we have today . |
| 2 | if the way this discussion had worked out had got the strategic site policy on the table today as a discussion item , and if we were able to get clear that such a strategic site policy if it existed was in addition to the |
| 3 | Nynex Corp 's Nynex CableComms unit has bought three of the eight UK cable television companies that Pacific Telesis Group Inc 's PacTel Cable UK Ltd put on the market last June ( CI No 1,943 ) : Nynex has taken the Greater Manchester , Bolton and Derby franchises and while it did not disclose terms , says it plans to invest £1,000m over the next five to six years to provide local telecommunications networks in its British franchise areas ; the companies it acquired are in franchise areas where it already operates . |
| 4 | It identified 500,000 hectares of costal habitat which it said were in need of active conservation measures . |
| 5 | It had been in an accident and it was worthless . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Under his aegis , the gulf in personal resources between rich and poor became very much wider than it had been in the period 1945–79 . |
| 9 | The British attitude to Europe remained as functional and piecemeal as it had been in the time of Ernest Bevin after 1945 . |
| 10 | Within the Common Market , Britain in 1989 seemed as much the odd nation out as it had been in 1979 at the time of the rancorous Dublin summit , unable to prevent major changes within the Community by responding in a negative , bad-tempered way . |
| 11 | But the exiled soldier wanted more than a place to stay : he wanted , to a Peter Pan-ish degree , everything as it had been in his childhood home . |
| 12 | Such is the speed of decline ( GNP in the first three months of 1991 was 8% lower than it had been in the same period of 1990 , imports were 45% lower ) that , if this plan fails , the next one may be either an economic state of emergency imposed under martial law , or a kaleidoscope of programmes started by republics after the Soviet Union breaks up . |
| 13 | It had been in her coat pocket when they took her clothes away . |
| 14 | If it had been in charge from the outset , its architects and liturgists might have devised more dignified surroundings and procedures than those that now prevail . |
| 15 | John Stevenson feels that this urban migration was important in restructuring the population of Britain , although Glynn and Oxborrow argue that this internal migration was less marked than it had been in the nineteenth century — being about one third of its former level . |
| 16 | Migration may have been a factor in the 1920s , though the level of net migration from Britain was somewhat less than it had been in the previous two decades . |
| 17 | Rationing , which still applied to meat , bacon , butter , cheese , tea , sugar and sweets , actually became more austere than it had been in 1945 . |
| 18 | I remember I was once experimenting with a gauze — it had been in La Scala for a hundred years and was full of dust . |
| 19 | The world , at least the British world , was better off in 1901 than it had been in 1801 , so why should it not be even better in 2001 ? |
| 20 | It had been in Essex that , out of discontent with sitting at home , Leslie had requested a posting abroad ; and it was somehow appropriate that it was with the men of Essex that he should have ended the North African campaign . |
| 21 | It had been in the possession of Henry , Prince of Wales , prior to his accession in 1413 . |
| 22 | In these cases Labour support was 5.5% higher than it had been in 1986 , compared with 6.9% higher in the 21 non-capped authorities . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The camp and many others like it had been in existence for years . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In Liverpool , resistance was not as co-ordinated as it had been in Chicago a decade earlier , where the implementation of a quarter-hour telephone call-in system collapsed when all the police call boxes immediately developed mysterious malfunctions . |
| 28 | A wide range of so-called sexual sicknesses was diagnosed , Instead of masturbation being classified as wrong or harmful , as it had been in Victorian times , it became not only permissible but obligatory by the new standards . |
| 29 | The singing of the choirs was less assured here than it had been in the group of European folk songs , arranged and conducted by Duncan Hanner at the start of the concert . |
| 30 | It was piercingly cold , too — much colder than it had been in Kent . |