Example sentences of "have been in [noun] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it has been in existence for some considerable time , train operation for passengers has been provided by battery-electric power . |
| 2 | However , where a discriminatory practice has been in operation for some time it may be easier for the Commission for Racial Equality to produce evidence in support of an allegation . |
| 3 | ‘ Although the calcinating plant has been in operation for some years now , it is the most modern of its type in the industry , ’ commented senior mill manager Graham Jones , ‘ and while it may not be attractive to the eye , it does produce beautiful materials . ’ |
| 4 | A standard Northern Ireland training package has been in operation for some time including intensive urban and rural patrolling , riot control techniques , shooting at fleeting targets , powers of arrest , orders for opening fire , bomb and weapon recognition . |
| 5 | The disputes procedure , that has been in place for some time , and enables us to resolve disputes locally , if they can not be resolved locally , then they are referred up through the management systems . |
| 6 | The FileNet workflow system ( supplied by Olivetti ) has been in use for some time within the customer services department of the BT mobile division . |
| 7 | Acknowledge cards has been in use for some months now just that |
| 8 | At a meeting on 1 September , the " Women Compositors " , Readers " and Monotype Operators " Union " was described as having been in existence for some nine weeks . |
| 9 | In many cases there was no doubt at all : the glass had been in contact with some other solid and the cracks were due to simple scratching or scraping . |
| 10 | English Estates had been in existence for some years , but its traditional role had been factory building and commercial development on green field sites with 5,000 factories and offices on 508 estates . |
| 11 | In this case the defendant for many years had been in possession of some artificial ornamental lakes formed by damming up a natural stream . |
| 12 | The great Chertsey Road had been in construction for some while as it involved the building of three new bridges over the River Thames at Chiswick , Richmond and Twickenham , but it was completed in 1933 , and the entire achievement was formally opened by Edward , Prince of Wales , who drove along the route , cutting ribbons at each of the three bridges . |
| 13 | Another factor was raised in a case in which the government did not properly consult local authorities ( as required by statute ) before making some regulations : by the time the application to revoke the regulations was heard , they had been in operation for some time and to revoke them would have caused considerable administrative inconvenience which could not be justified given that no real complaint was made about the substance of the regulations . |
| 14 | Di Scott , of Fairbridge , explained : ‘ After the ship had been in operation for some time it was realised that a great deal of money was needed for maintenance and running costs . |
| 15 | Harthacnut , no older than seventeen , had been in Denmark for some years by 1035 . |
| 16 | The paper published by the Commission is to be submitted to EC transport ministers ; it had been in preparation for some time , but work was speeded up following the recent tanker accidents in the Shetlands and at La Coruna in northern Spain [ see ED 67 ] . |
| 17 | I knew him because he had been in Fontanellato for some months , and after wishing him buon giorno and so forth I tried to find out what his duties were and what was likely to happen to the prisoner . |
| 18 | In the example of Alex in the chapter no allowance was made for the fact that an item had been in use for some time . |
| 19 | After the er Police Act nineteen sixty four had been in force for some years and when the government of the day which you supporters in the nineteen seventies and later , tried to erm modify it in order to er make a dovetail with local government reforms which we supported . |
| 20 | Within the German Social Democratic Party the issue had been in dispute for some time . |
| 21 | I refer not only to the substantial amount of money that was made available , resulting in a £45 per week rise for nursing homes , which cost us a total of £225 million , but to the amendment that allowed the Secretary of State , after community care had been in place for some time , to take account of the local authorities ' assessments of reasonable rates and of their experiences in general . |
| 22 | It was no secret that the couple 's weird relationship had been in trouble for some time . |
| 23 | ’ A stuffy set-up like this needs someone like me to redress the balance , ’ he would claim , usually after he had been in trouble for some misdemeanour or other . |
| 24 | is , is , in London and we deal with the British Section which is are the particular bits , but the prisoners have to be vatted and looked at and found by the International Secretaires , then they 're passed on to British Section who pass them on to us and a great deal of research goes into making sure that they really are truly prisoners of conscience , that they 've been in prison for some er possibly because of their belief or religion or their race erm and they 've not taken or advocated violence not taken part in or advocated violence and then , then they are full prisoners of conscience erm we maybe allocated them . |
| 25 | The visiting players have been in England for some days , and all four are becoming understandable twitchy as the time to make the first moves approaches . |
| 26 | The EGBT have been in existence for some years and have proved themselves a respectable and reliable organisation with several completed projects to their credit . |