Example sentences of "had been in [noun sg] [prep] [det] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In this case the defendant for many years had been in possession of some artificial ornamental lakes formed by damming up a natural stream . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It could have been worse ; since the first strike had occurred at 9.30 p.m. after the main factory work-hours , and only a skeleton-crew shift had been in operation at that time . |
| 9 | Mr Bell said the system of having one ambulance on call at each of the county 's 11 stations after 7pm every night had been in operation for many years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Reclamation of the foreshore to seaward of the Imperial Dock was extended to the Eastern Breakwater to complete a scheme which had been in progress for several years and which would provide additional space for industry . |
| 13 | For part if the time they had been in support of another Engineer regiment for joint river crossing operations , and on one occasion had carried infantrymen over a one-kilometre-wide stretch of the Weser , using their rigs as landing craft . |
| 14 | The LFS shows that a quarter of all persons who had been unemployed 12 months before the survey , but who were in work on the survey date , had temporary jobs , compared with just over three per cent who had been in work on both dates . |
| 15 | 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 ] . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In this way , specific dates can be given to a sequence of finds as more information becomes available : if , for example , a cemetery which had been in use for several decades is excavated , the finds from each grave are studied as individual groups to be fitted into an overall sequence . |
| 19 | Councillors , most of whom had strong local roots and had been in power for many years , came to believe they had a permanent mandate and readily resisted any challenge to their authority . |
| 20 | Apologies were given from Hilda Lodge who had been in hospital for several days for tests . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Most of the former National Guards were high-ranking figures from the Somoza regime who had been in prison for much of the last 10 years . |
| 23 | Forces opposed to the President had been in control of much of the country for several months [ see pp. 37702-03 ; 37767-68 ; 37844-45 ] , with the central government 's authority largely confined to the area around the capital . |
| 24 | Within the German Social Democratic Party the issue had been in dispute for some time . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I was fortunate to join three other NDOs , Messrs , Bannatyne , Fielding and Laurie , who had been in post for several months , involved in assessment , validation and regulations pertaining to pilot courses . |
| 27 | The violent street demonstration witnessed by Abercrombie in Beirut had been in protest at these electoral violations . |
| 28 | It was no secret that the couple 's weird relationship had been in trouble for some time . |
| 29 | ’ 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 . |