Example sentences of "[been] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they have been in a position to determine the way they are investigated and the manner of their public exposure . |
| 2 | Pre-Astrid , Jay had been in a dead job , art workshops with utterly disillusioned teenagers , every morning she coughed she rang in sick , malingering Mondays , rain seeped in the doors of the empty bus every morning , the bus to the High Street for the next bus , hoping to be early enough to miss the screaming leering sneering schoolgirls she had to face all day . |
| 3 | Jasper had been in a road accident a few months before the diagnosis . |
| 4 | Sentencing R v Barney ; CA ( Crim Div ) ( Bingham LJ , Ognall , McKinnon JJ ) ; 3 Oct 1989 A judge was in error in implying that , had a defendant been in a position to pay compensation to his victim , he might have received a shorter sentence than that in fact imposed . |
| 5 | Stalin is dead , and so since this summer is Andrei Gromyko , who as Deputy Foreign Minister at the time of the 1957 note , might have been in a position to provide some elucidation . |
| 6 | Edwards , Manchester United 's chief executive and major shareholder , was at pains to emphasise that Knighton had been in a position to complete the deal , but had not done so ‘ in the interests of the club ’ and had at no time sought compensation . |
| 7 | I have probably been in a family relationship with Leslie in 12 previous lives . ’ |
| 8 | Today , closer to Clapton ( geographically ) than he 's been in a long while , Anthony Newley is relishing the chance to prove he 's still up to a tough dramatic performance eight shows a week and , to follow , he has plans for a musicalised Richard III . |
| 9 | In 1979 , the Cabinet of twentytwo contained only seven ministers ( Edwards , St John-Stevas , Younger , Nott , Biffen , Carlisle , and Maude ) who had not been in a previous Cabinet . |
| 10 | You can never hope to achieve the professionalism of those who have been in a single business all their lives and hence you need quickly to get to know those whose opinions you can trust . |
| 11 | If society in all its aspects has always been in a state of flux , it is highly unlikely that this process will end at any particular time . |
| 12 | But it is a feudalism where inequalities and poverty have been intensified by British colonialism and which has in the last thirty-seven years since independence been in a state of flux caused by the varying stages of capitalism which reach out to it from the towns and cities of the Indian sub-continent . |
| 13 | Historically the BBC has been in a privileged position to negotiate coverage with the ‘ gentlemen amateurs ’ of the MCC , the Committee of the All-England Club , and the four rugby unions . |
| 14 | Their home was in London and Fanshawe must have been in a hurry . |
| 15 | ‘ She 's been in a coma since it happened six weeks ago . ’ |
| 16 | But she had been in a coma , she was n't mad . |
| 17 | If Cullam had been in a fit state to observe behaviour he might have thought the chief inspector bored or preoccupied . |
| 18 | In one study , body weight as well as general development progressed more in a group of premature babies living in a hospital nursery which imposed light/dark and noise/quiet rhythms than in a group who had been in a ward with less emphasis on the differences between night and day . |
| 19 | Shortly before the wedding Edward Adeane , Charles 's private secretary , had been in a dining club with the artist ; he pushed a packet of cigarettes across the table towards him . |
| 20 | All morning he had been in a strange , erratic mood and as the car began to bump its way off down the track Tug felt a great lightening of his spirits . |
| 21 | That the advertisement had been in a church magazine was , for my grandfather , sufficient guarantee of respectability , but when the boys arrived in the great city even their inexperience could not hide from them the fact that the respectable lodging was nothing more nor less than a brothel . |
| 22 | Examination of the metal showed that it had always been in a clean condition with no evidence of corrosion , suggesting that it had never been buried . |
| 23 | Had these people been in a time machine , or chained in dimly-lit rooms in Beirut ? |
| 24 | Have these people been in a time-machine or chained in dimly-lit rooms in Beirut ? |
| 25 | Baroness Seear , a leader of the Liberal peers for several years , remarks that ‘ I can honestly say that I have never been in a place that treats you better on male-female equality . |
| 26 | ‘ Any soldier who has ever been in a war , ’ he said at the hearings , ‘ truly hopes he will never see one again . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ And as for the idea that I am being some how manipulated all I can say is that I do n't know about the other girls but I have been in a similar industry — television , for the last couple of years and now I know how it works . |
| 28 | She had been in a state of shock . |
| 29 | The corpse has been in a freezer in Hawaii since he died there in exile in 1989 . |
| 30 | ‘ We rarely have been in a position where he has had the confidence to go for it , ’ said Gray . |