Example sentences of "[vb past] been in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " If I 'd been in the political arena I 'd have shouted . |
| 2 | Well , his theory was that this guy was a writer or something , a historian or somebody like that , and Freud said it 's quite likely that in the past he had had either dreams about a similar dream or conscious fantasies about how he would have felt if he 'd been in the French Revolution and what might have happened to him . |
| 3 | We 'd been in the same form for two terms without really speaking because we had separate friends and in any case at St Edward 's you were seated according to your exam results at the end of the previous term , so it was n't likely we 'd be close . |
| 4 | Potential inferences which were disconfirmed by a later statement were invariably rejected , and inferences which were neither confirmed nor disconfirmed were falsely identified as often as they had been in the neutral condition . |
| 5 | Anpetuwi had been in the Foster family for generations , and Mandy had assured her that there was a complete lack of snobbery about staff mingling with guests . |
| 6 | ‘ Stand ’ is proved by the observations of the officer concerned and although it is not necessary to prove the vehicle had been in the offending position for a particular period of time the court may find it helpful if the officer could give evidence , ‘ The vehicle was parked on Bradford Road from 20.00 hours to 21.00 hours etc . ’ |
| 7 | Ingram has found that in many parts of southern England the levels of these practices were much higher in the 1620s and 1630s than they had been in the middle years of Elizabeth 's reign ; and Jeremy Boulton has discovered that between 80 and 98 per cent of all the potential communicants of two large suburban parishes in London were receiving annual communion during the late Elizabethan and Jacobean periods-a very high proportion by any standards . |
| 8 | Evelyn had been in the front room listening to the exchange . |
| 9 | It would have been better for employers and workpeople if they had been in the disciplinary grip of machinery … |
| 10 | Before that Eva had been in Rhodesia , Margaret and her husband were doing medical missionary work in India , the boys had been in the Far East . |
| 11 | The Austrian government on Sept. 16 rejected a request for political asylum from Markus Wolf , the former head of East German intelligence from 1958 to 1987 who had been in the Soviet Union for the past year and who was wanted in Germany on charges of espionage . |
| 12 | Things were very different from the way they had been in the colonial period : |
| 13 | Much to my shame I knew nothing of the Cambrian Railways as most of my interest up to then had been in the Southern Railways and to a greater extent industrial railways , and so decided that much research was necessary , which along with the commencement of renovations will form part of our next episode : - ‘ A NEW STATION IN LIFE ’ . |
| 14 | John Stevenson feels that this urban migration was important in restructuring the population of Britain , although Glynn and Oxborrow argue that this internal migration was less marked than it had been in the nineteenth century — being about one third of its former level . |
| 15 | Despite the fact that contemporary comment was no stronger than it had been in the nineteenth century , World War I had a dramatic effect on the marriage expectations of women , and it may be hypothesised that there were concomitant changes in attitudes towards the desirability of careers for daughters of middle class parents . |
| 16 | There remained in the polytechnics ( as there had been in the former teacher training colleges ) lecturers who , having experience of teaching in primary schools , acknowledged the importance of approaching teacher education in a broader , more holistic way . |
| 17 | I had been in the armed forces long enough to know that you waited a long time for everything and I saw no reason why a dental appointment should be any different , |
| 18 | It was not until 1881 that he decided to take a medical degree ; his work up to that time had been in the physiological laboratory under Brücke , where , for six years , he had studied the central nervous system . |
| 19 | It is probable that plague remained a constant threat , even if it is less well recorded in contemporary writings than at an earlier date ; probably men were more inured to its presence than they had been in the first shock of 1348 . |
| 20 | In April Prime Minister Pavlov announced that compared with the first quarter of 1990 there had been in the first quarter of 1991 a 10 per cent fall in national income , a 5 per cent fall in industrial output and a 13 per cent fall in agricultural output . |
| 21 | so I 've shared a room with erm this chap Tom who was er he had been in the First World War and er though he seemed old to me at the time , I suppose he was probably in his thirties and erm he joined the Home Guard and erm lived , because he was bombed out where he lived in he moved out to Coptock had accommodation out there and er he was in the unit at Coptock and so that used to take up quite a bit of his time and other erm members of staff were , of course also had fire watching and erm various civil defence activities , quite apart from the work on the A R P shifts . |
| 22 | Note that the measurement period commenced after the plants had been in the new environment for a short while , not immediately on removal from the controlled conditions of the growth cupboard . |
| 23 | Still , however difficult he had been in the good days , when they were all riding high , he was still most certainly loyal . |
| 24 | Mrs Thatcher stonewalled her way through Question Time , repeatedly arguing that the Rover deal had been in the best interests of the taxpayer . |
| 25 | Anderson does not deny that kin probably continued to be the main and the most reliable source of aid for migrants into the expanding towns , as they had been in the rural communities ( mostly in Lancashire and Ireland ) from which the migrants came . |
| 26 | In the fourth century , Athenian democracy was curtailed in ways harder to resist than a Hyperbolus , who could simply be got rid of : the institutionalized power of the men who administered the various state funds grew in the course of the fourth century , and as such people got above themselves Athens became a less democratic place than it had been in the fifth century . |
| 27 | The section for training in portable nuclear devices had been in the deep cellars of the monastery . |
| 28 | A murder weapon had been discovered in Parkin 's desk , David Parkin had been in the right place at the right time and he had a conceivable motive to kill the television reporter . |
| 29 | I had a good friend in Marius , who had been in the Swedish Army before joining the Legion . |
| 30 | The letter had been in the left pocket of her frock . |