Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [prep] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local youth offices had been in existence in a few cities as early as 1909 in Mainz ( founded by the mayor Georg Schmidt ) and 1910 in Hamburg . |
| 2 | Although railed tramways had been in use in various parts of the country from the middle of the 18th century , generally in connection with coal mines , the first true railway in Scotland was the line from Kilmarnock to Troon . |
| 3 | The characteristic of all those areas is that for a long time they have been Labour controlled , although Conservatives have been in control in Brent for the past year and the Liberal Democrats have recently been in control in Tower Hamlets . |
| 4 | Atomic shelters had been on sale in the U.S. ( at a cost of $1,995 in 1951 ) since the first Russian atomic bomb . |
| 5 | Already since April 11 railway workers in western Georgia and dockers at the Black Sea ports had been on strike in protest at the presence of Soviet troops in the troubled South Ossetia region . |
| 6 | Yet , although the excavations began in 1967 and about half of the paintings have been on exhibition in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens since the early 1970s , the other half have been neither exhibited nor published . |
| 7 | Many of Britain 's civil servants have been on strike in protest at what they see as moves towards privatisation which they believe could cost them their jobs . |
| 8 | However , since 1977 various other forces have been at work in the cities and , consequently , have affected the efficacy and relevance of inner-urban policy . |
| 9 | Special task forces have been at work in each board to deal with the longest waiting lists and I have set aside an extra £1 million this year and in each of the next two years to support their work . |
| 10 | Hundreds of staff at polytechnic and further education colleges have been on strike in a protest over pay . |
| 11 | Of the over three hundred entries , 30 short-listed by the assessors have been on display in Glasgow 's Princes Square , and are being shown at the RIBA in London until 3 March . |
| 12 | They have complained that traffic has been going down the one-in-three gradient Bay Bank into the old part of the village which is prevented when police have been on duty in the past . |
| 13 | But the communists in Russia were er th all this er Gulag Arli Archipelago and secret police have been in existence in Russia for hundreds of years before the com er communists came in . |
| 14 | Some of the prisoners had been to parties in the German Kommandantur . |
| 15 | We 're going angling first this week to the Bushyleaze Lake in Lechlade … the country 's top fly fishers have been in action in the British final of the Airflow Classic … |