Example sentences of "been in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | having been in the US 's ‘ back yard ’ I know how little attention is paid to those issues there . |
| 2 | There is less scorn in the novel than there had been in the article , and a pity that must have come as surprise to readers of his work . |
| 3 | Different generations are well represented here , from the newest professional at the beginning of her career to two who have been in the business for the last forty years . |
| 4 | The two cases also show that change is a possibility , but that it has mainly been in the past through change in the hierarchy 's and clergy 's attitudes as well . |
| 5 | I have never been in the business of producing art-crap , he wrote . |
| 6 | These were Peter Horbury and his wife who had been in the little car immediately next to Lord Woodleigh 's , and Miss Abernethie , who had been in the next car suffering the presence of the tartan-socked hotel tout . |
| 7 | These were Peter Horbury and his wife who had been in the little car immediately next to Lord Woodleigh 's , and Miss Abernethie , who had been in the next car suffering the presence of the tartan-socked hotel tout . |
| 8 | A fourth cherry had been in the slice the Councillor had just removed and eaten . |
| 9 | He gazed at the women , and the small group of people who had been in the tent when the councillor actually collapsed . |
| 10 | I do n't think Father has been in the kitchen in his life . |
| 11 | ‘ You 've been in the wars rather , have n't you ? ’ |
| 12 | This means that a patio of ample size will be needed , which could use a combination of pre-cast slabs and new brick paving , or , of you are lucky , some old bricks that may have been in the garden already . |
| 13 | Those old , glazed rope-twist tiles seem to be hard to find nowadays , and the ones in the picture will have been in the garden for many years . |
| 14 | By this time , though , the lice have probably been in the hair for several weeks . |
| 15 | At university I chanced to meet a detective sergeant who had been in the Durham drug squad outside the Sociology building in New Elvet , Durham city . |
| 16 | ‘ Mary — you should have been in the government . ’ |
| 17 | Menzies squashed this with his news of how cool the Gillieses had been in the morning . |
| 18 | Both these families had sons of about twenty , both had been in the crowd that won the signature from Menzies of Bolfracks . |
| 19 | To all this is added ( and it must be emphasised that Catholicism has always been in the ascendancy ) , a healthy input from the Jewish fraternity whose civic and educational emphasis greatly increases the town 's well-being , albeit from a proportionately tiny community . |
| 20 | Professor Dudek , as we saw , had been in the van of promoting the post-war interests of poetry in a variety of forms and outlets . |
| 21 | It would have been an education to have been in the House when the Minister spoke . |
| 22 | I have n't been in the least difficult about your doing all that sewing . |
| 23 | Alan had been in the third coach of the second train and was therefore luckier than the people in the first and second coaches , several of whom were dead |
| 24 | The golden period of manufacture seems to me to have been in the late 1950s and early 1960s when both manufacturers were making superbly engineered , fully adjustable machines . |
| 25 | Mr Levy-Lang said that this year a quarter of new lending will have been outside France , and 90 per cent of that will have been in the United Kingdom . |
| 26 | Less than 5 per cent of the Ansett and Australian Airlines fleets have been in the air , using management pilots in a skeleton service supplemented by Royal Australian Air Force planes and overseas airlines . |
| 27 | The province has since been in the forefront of China 's efforts to reassure foreign businessmen that its door will be staying open for ‘ business as usual ’ . |
| 28 | Perhaps the nearest the British have got to a building like this has been in the pages of The Eagle . |
| 29 | One is that he has been in the ring with Michael Gerard Tyson . |
| 30 | AS FAR AS Irish nationalists are concerned , the British security forces in Northern Ireland have never been in the running for prizes for popularity . |