Example sentences of "have been [noun] [prep] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | One source of instability , you rightly note , has been lack of competitiveness in countries like Italy , whose unit labour costs rose by 10% compared with those of other industrial countries between 1987 and August 1992 . |
| 2 | Thus , the phenomenon may have been part of variability in English for many centuries — more common perhaps in some dialects than in others , receding at some periods and progressing at others . |
| 3 | There may or may not have been divisions of opinion in the ranks of the progressive Alliance , but the Conservatives were all too evidently engaged in fratricidal strife . |
| 4 | Three whites were appointed : Dennis Norman , who had been Minister of Agriculture in 1980-85 ; Chris Anderson , the outgoing Minister of State for Public Service ; and Timothy Stamps , one of five ministers new to the government . |
| 5 | Beyond France , General Charles de Gaulle , who had been Under-Secretary of Defence in 1940 , formed the ‘ Free French ’ movement , based first in London and then ( after 1943 ) Algiers , and claimed to be the ‘ true ’ representative of the French nation . |
| 6 | Many of the accidents were foreseen , there had been warnings about fires in Tubes , how quickly ferries sank , and the hazards at football grounds . |
| 7 | Worrell had been vice-captain against England in 1953–4 , but when Australia toured a year later the selectors ' feet , apparently , had turned cold ; Denis Atkinson , who had little captaincy experience , was made Stollmeyer 's deputy , and as Stollmeyer then missed three Tests through injury , found himself pitched in at the deep end . |
| 8 | At least once in their lives , most of these men would have met Thorfinn : more perhaps than had come face to face with King Duncan in the six years of his reign and before , when he had been prince of Cumbria in the shadow of Malcolm his grandfather . |
| 9 | People said it was smoothed over , and that there had been adjustments of personnel in the agriculture department . |
| 10 | Mr Evans said there had been days of action in Cleveland every two years since 1979 . |
| 11 | Salvo Lima had been Mayor of Palermo in the building boom of the Fifties and Sixties , when the Mafia set the rules of many public contracts . |
| 12 | The story was also fuelled by a book , My Turn to Speak , written by Abdolhassan Bani-Sadr , who had been President of Iran in 1980-81 . |
| 13 | The Merseyside Crime Survey found , for example , that 44 per cent of interviewees had been victims of crime in the last twelve months , and a quarter had been victimized twice or more . |
| 14 | Most importantly , there have been fluctuations over time in the actual existence of kin who might provide such support for each other . |
| 15 | Wall 's ( 1986 ) evidence suggests that there have been fluctuations over time in patterns of who actually shares households , but that these have not been in a single direction . |
| 16 | Finally , there have been changes over time in the rates of divorce and marriage , although the significance of these for patterns of kin relations may be not so obvious as it first appears . |
| 17 | Thus there have been changes over time in patterns of support between generations , but these are not necessarily a result of individuals ' changing beliefs and values about family responsibilities . |
| 18 | There have been reports of mice in one area of the Village . |
| 19 | The disease is widespread in America and quite recently there have been reports of cases in dogs in the UK . |
| 20 | Can he give any indication of whether at that meeting he expressed the British Government 's support for the United Nations human rights sub-commission report in relation to the expressions of concern about the violations of human rights in Tibet , and what proposals did he make to help the many thousands who have been refugees from Tibet in the past 30 years ? |
| 21 | Since the , there have been hints of enthusiasm in certain quarters for the wristy genius Mushtaq Ahmed ( who eventually got the nod — ED . ) . |
| 22 | Above all , fidelity to the " open justice " principle keeps Britain free from the reproach that it permits " secret courts " of the kind which have been instruments of repression in so many other countries . |
| 23 | " She 's been head over heals in love with you for ages , " said Lady Agatha impatiently . |