Example sentences of "[noun] have been [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been employed before 1917 in the archives of the foreign ministry and one of his ancestors on his mother 's side had been Russian ambassador in Vienna during the 1814 – 15 congress . |
| 2 | Agnes absorbed that and found that she believed it : Mo had been thirty years in intelligence work which trains up a determination not to know some things quite as strong as the desire to know others . |
| 3 | The effect of falling school rolls and DES cuts in teacher-training quotas has been some reduction in the numbers of students on courses ; however , recruitment in 1981 was still considerable and , in 1981 , the polytechnics had 1,300 students enrolled on to teacher-training courses . |
| 4 | The idea had arisen for Frank through his location and questions that had come up about muons ; Sakharov had been developing fusion in secret and picked up the notion because he would have been on the lookout for any papers about fusion , of whatever sort . |
| 5 | Does not that answer prove that the past 13 years have been wasted years in terms of the Government 's commitment to the footwear industry ? |
| 6 | The event has been 9 months in the making . |
| 7 | But obviously the revolution had been some time in the making . |
| 8 | The return of Chalmers to form and his ever-improving tactical maturity have been essential elements in the Scottish success this year . |
| 9 | The return of Chalmers to form and his ever-improving tactical maturity have been essential elements in the Scottish success this year |
| 10 | The district has been national finalists in the Britain in Bloom contest in the last four years and this has been achieved by the magnificent floral displays which can be seen throughout the summer months in our area . |
| 11 | The show 's organisers and officials of the Canadian Hellenic Congress , an organisation of Greeks in Canada , say the exhibition has been five years in the making and that it reflects the excellent cultural ties between Greeks and Canadians . |
| 12 | Pablo Merry del Val , whose father had been Spanish Ambassador in London , conducted briefings for the correspondents and censored their dispatches . |
| 13 | Sangster had been leading owner in this country five times in eight years up to 1985 when Sheikh Mohammed led the Maktoum charge , taking the No. 1 spot four times in row in the past four seasons . |
| 14 | Thus , streams , rivers , and particularly springs and wells have been important considerations in settlement siting . |
| 15 | This whole ‘ Gen X ’ thing has been big news in the States . |
| 16 | Lalande wrote of him in 1763 : ‘ Sisson has been several times in prison for failing to pay his workmen [ of whom Jesse Ramsden , q.v. , was one ] ; he starts many things and finishes nothing : he takes his instruments to the pawnbroker , where they have been seen selling for a tenth of their value . |
| 17 | Lewis 's grandfather had been I parson in a Suffolk village , with nothing but his stipend to live on , the father of seven children . |
| 18 | Simon Cormack had been fifteen days in his underground cell , and thirteen since he had answered the question about Aunt Emily and known that his father was trying to get him out . |
| 19 | The response had been massive strikes in the public sector . |
| 20 | With this in mind , the company has been investing money in planting new crops before the threat of a ban becomes reality . |
| 21 | The chief headache for publishers to date has been perpetual change in syllabuses , which can seriously affect or disrupt the publishing process . |
| 22 | All ten residents had been long-term patients in a large psychiatric hospital , were severely disabled and had been discharged only after a lengthy period of active rehabilitation . |
| 23 | However , as we have seen in my interview responses many of these so-called ‘ new ’ approaches have been common practice in good arts departments for many years before the introduction of TVEI . |
| 24 | She enables women today to see that women have been historical agents in the past , and to envisage the past from the perspective of women . |
| 25 | The appeal has been five years in the hearing . |
| 26 | The inter-church document tackling the issue of sectarianism has been five years in the making . |