Example sentences of "had been in [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Llewelyn had been in council for several hours , and was no less weary ; nevertheless , he saw the labour and pain with which Owen bent his knee to him , and reached to take him up before he could complete his reverence . |
| 2 | The hook shown had been in service for four years and showed very little wear . |
| 3 | The British Ambassador , Anthony Parsons , a man whose heavy spectacles gave him an amiable academic appearance , was an Arabist who had been in Iran since 1974 . |
| 4 | His first action had been in Greece in late 1940 : ‘ We soon went to the border , and the Germans invaded from Bulgaria and Yugoslavia which they had romped through . |
| 5 | D'Arcy knew Dave Forbes had been in contact with New Scotland Yard as he had instructed , but he was surprised to see the shabby , raincoated figure of Roy Bliss standing behind the Immigration officer . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Each of the remaining 60,15 from each township , were asked whether they had been in contact with any of our list of ten agencies during the same prevalence study period . |
| 8 | Both the US Navy and Army had run their own intelligence departments since the early 1880s while the FBI had been in existence since 1910 and had been responsible for collating foreign intelligence . |
| 9 | The Beacon had been in existence for many years and in the past had catered for up to thirty children with a wide range of disabilities and needs . |
| 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 | However , Gen. José Dante Caridi , who had stood down as Army Chief of Staff after the rebellion , immediately denied the existence of any such deal ( as did his successor , Gen. Francisco Gassino , who warned that he would respond firmly to any further mutinies ) and accused Seineldin of excessive nationalism and fundamentalism and of being involved in a group of Army conspirators which had been in existence for 25 years . |
| 12 | When Joyce joined the British Fascisti in December 1923 , it had been in existence for seven months . |
| 13 | Colonia Dignidad , situated in Parral , 400 km south of Santiago , and inhabited by an estimated 300 people , mainly West Germans , had been in existence for 28 years and was variously linked with slave labour , child sexual abuse , and the torture and disappearance of political prisoners . |
| 14 | The opposition MPs who opposed the Government move claimed that only one small bookmaker in Edinburgh had been in favour of late opening . |
| 15 | On Sept. 28 Security Minister Mensan Agbeyome Kodjo announced the results of the referendum held the previous day , stating that 99.09 per cent of votes cast had been in favour of constitutional change . |
| 16 | Unusually , one of the schools had been in receipt of two Minor awards in successive years . |
| 17 | According to Mr Carson , the professor had taken his degree at Oxford , but he had been in America for several years now . |
| 18 | Moreover when the Iraqi First Corps swept up at Panjwin , they evicted Iranian forces that had been in possession since 1983 . |
| 19 | In this case the defendant for many years had been in possession of some artificial ornamental lakes formed by damming up a natural stream . |
| 20 | Police said had been in Germany since last September and was being considered for asylum . |
| 21 | The called up share capital disclosed in the Balance Sheet fro the group at 31st March 1990 has been presented on the basis that the 1,320,000 ordinary shares of 25p each issued on the merger with Model Manufacturing Ltd had been in issue at 31st March 1990 . |
| 22 | He had been in scenes like this with his teenage daughters , and he kept thinking : ‘ I must stay cool . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I once visited a local MIND centre which was a day and short-term residential centre for people who had been in institutions with mental illness . |
| 25 | Albert Sandison had been in Naples for three weeks and he was beginning to forget why he had come . |
| 26 | Although the CNAA system had been in operation since 1964 , ‘ it is only recently that it has made almost total inroads as far as the central , advanced colleges of technology in Scotland are concerned ’ . |
| 27 | The idea of garden festivals was imported from Europe , particularly West Germany , where the concept had been in operation since 1945 . |
| 28 | The changes , to be implemented in May 1991 , involved the scrapping of the country 's mandatory system of conciliation and arbitration which had been in operation since 1984 . |
| 29 | This scheme had been in operation since 1977 . |
| 30 | Any form of limited franchise , such as that which had been in operation since 1815 , was a direct affront to the principles of 1789 , which had declared the people to be sovereign . |