Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kids had been in the car and there was a water pistol on the shelf under the dash . |
| 2 | A great deal has been said and written , and food manufacturers have been in a hurry to extol the virtues of their food based on its fibre content . |
| 3 | The crucial difference , especially in recent years , between the two countries has been in the timing of their respective economic cycles . |
| 4 | In making the change , the Church effectively admitted that on these points the Reformers had been in the right . |
| 5 | That evening the two defendants had been in the Peace Gardens with Mrs McMullen , her mother , Annie Williams , and brother , Terence Morton . |
| 6 | There was no mention of hair , though Rufus knew hair could persist intact for far more years than those bones had been in the grave , and there was nothing about clothing . |
| 7 | The kids know that their parents have been in a car crash , of course . |
| 8 | Although there is actually little that is novel in ‘ sociobiology ’ , for the key elements have been in the air since the writings of Sir Ronald Fisher and J. B. S. Haldane , the extensive if not exhaustive application of population genetics to social evolution means that the relevance of evolutionary biology in the social sciences can no longer be ignored . |
| 9 | The only consistent variation found within the G-banded karyotypes from different mouse strains has been in the amount of A1 band material ( regions which are synonymous with C-bands ) observed in certain chromosomes . |
| 10 | It had been some time now since the old pilots had been in a dog-fight , and Killion for one was sweating heavily by the time he landed . |
| 11 | If workers had been in the vicinity , they would have received high doses of radiation . |
| 12 | Although the tapes had been in the possession of the Walsh investigating team for some time , their significance concerning Fiers had apparently surfaced only recently when the investigators turned their attention away from members of the administration of former President Ronald Reagan in favour of concentrating on the connection between senior CIA officials and the Iran-contra affair . |
| 13 | There were few new books added each year and I would think that a great number of volumes had been in the Library from its opening in 1905 . |
| 14 | Yes , the cases quoted are clear ones , in which carers have been in the home for a long time , but obviously we would wish to avoid a position in which the carer was in the home for a short time in the expectation that he or she would then be allowed to stay there . |
| 15 | Quite a lot of top managers had been in the agency business . |
| 16 | According to the company , these deals had been in the offing for some time , but were finally concluded in December and January . |
| 17 | Kuwaiti electoral law restricted the franchise to men aged 21 or over whose families had been in the Emirate since before 1921 , limiting the number of voters to 81,400 of the country 's 606,000 nationals . |
| 18 | It had n't What kind of things had been in the past ? |
| 19 | Speaking at the opening of the event on a misty morning NSA Wales and Borders chairman Andrew Jones said : ‘ We as sheep farmers have been in the mist for some time , but lets hope that the outlook is much better and that there are better days to come . ’ |
| 20 | but fifty seven of you out of sixty three car owners have been in an accident , is that , yes |
| 21 | Sapsan says its main customers have been in the defence industry . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | That day her bridal gown had been delivered , and the servants had been in a flurry of activity preparing the wedding banquet . |
| 24 | Item — Lady Eleanor had died during Compline when the other sisters had been in the chapel . |
| 25 | For example , newcomers have been in the forefront of the many campaigns to obtain by-passes for those villages which have a main road running through them . |
| 26 | In practice the major use of such agreements has been in the sphere of highway maintenance and construction , where old county boroughs and large urban districts have invariably continued to provide the service on behalf of their county council . |
| 27 | The purpose of these games has been in the main to do with releasing energy and reducing inhibitions or achieving group cohesion . |
| 28 | During the period of joint occupation , monthly payments had been in the sum of £173.32 … |
| 29 | It would have been different if the other girls had been in the flat , but they were both away for the weekend . |
| 30 | The average age of central committee members fell from 52 to 47 ; an increased proportion of members had been in the party for less than 15 years . |