Example sentences of "have [be] in [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the skylit fifth floor opens permanently on 19 February with an expanded sampling of the museum 's contemporary collection , much of which has been in storage for years , and with a long-term installation of a promised gift of twenty-seven works by American abstract artist Leon Polk Smith ( b. 1906 ) . |
| 2 | It is actively seeking to extend its network : currently it has been in discussion with firms in Austria , Greece , Italy , Spain and South Africa . |
| 3 | Taking its impetus from the alleged crash of a flying saucer at Roswell in 1947 and the supposed recovery of alien bodies , this is the theory that the US government has been in contact with aliens for years , but has kept it secret . |
| 4 | Mrs Tansley says it is over 58 years since she made her debut in opera and she never did any more , though she is well known in villages in the Guisborough area where her talent has been in demand at concerts . |
| 5 | It is an old ship-building town , it once produced a massive proportion of British vessels , but it has been in decline for decades . |
| 6 | The Secretary of State said that British Coal 's market has been in decline for decades . |
| 7 | Most of the growth has been in issuance of eurobonds , but there has also been significant growth in issuance of foreign bonds , largely in Swiss francs . |
| 8 | Starting next year the Official Custodian for Charities , who has been in charge of investments on behalf of 40,000 charities , will be giving back the investments to the individual charities . |
| 9 | Theoretically , she can dissolve Parliament without advice , but the right has been in abeyance for years . |
| 10 | Macmillan 's exceptionally successful Mexican operation has been in place for years but now Mexico is everyone 's tip for the top — ‘ The most exciting country in the region , ’ says David Phillips of Linguaphone ; ‘ The biggest without doubt , ’ says David Stewart . |
| 11 | In addition to all this , his most important work has been in relation to investments and his ‘ stochastic investment model ’ is widely used by actuaries in the UK and abroad . |
| 12 | You could even have a personalised château holiday , enjoying the hospitality of a family who may well have been in residence for generations . |
| 13 | This may have been in connection with duties at his Gloucester Docks warehouse or possibly in the Stroud area . |
| 14 | By the same token the cinema industry in America , which has dominated the twentieth century and contributed more than any other force to the primacy of the visual image , does also create new audiences for books which are sold as ‘ the book of the film ’ despite their having been in print as classics for many years . |
| 15 | He is known to have been in receipt of pensions from at least three institutional clients ( the abbeys of Glastonbury and Ramsey and the priory of Durham ) and probably received similar pensions from many other individuals and institutions . |
| 16 | Connolly denied the charges but the court heard that swabs taken from his hands indicated he had been in contact with explosives and that he was found in possession of a key to the front door of the second house . |
| 17 | Whilst in Russia he had been in contact with representatives of the Russian Bible Society , and through them had learned of the monitorial system of schoolteaching pioneered by Lancaster and Bell in Britain . |
| 18 | The camp and many others like it had been in existence for years . |
| 19 | He had been in charge of situations for the previous half century , since he had commanded guns on the Barham at the Battle of Jutland , as a midshipman , in the First World War . |
| 20 | But I said , that they 've been in bathrooms for years like ! |
| 21 | And er video camera and lighting among them and er they look as if they 've been in place for hours . |
| 22 | Nor do they always distinguish Turks who have been in Germany for years from recent ‘ economic migrants ’ . |
| 23 | Others have been in existence for years , yet seem to hold out little hope of attracting new recruits . |
| 24 | ( It is interesting to note that the Jeffery family have been in Donhead for centuries as The Visitation of Wilts 1565 records that the first wife of Alderman Thomas Pople of Salisbury , was ‘ Katherine , daughter to John Jeffery of Doned Marie , Dorset ’ . ) |
| 25 | As was intimated earlier , less formal approaches to the inflationary biases which may be endemic within certain systems of industrial relations have been in circulation among Keynesians for many decades . |
| 26 | People who have been in trouble with repayments to another creditor in the past may have a County Court Judgement ( CCJ ) against them . |
| 27 | He plays Jeremy Conway , a spy who 's been in Britain for years achieving a powerful position with a large London bank . |