Example sentences of "have been in [noun] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | OFFICIALS at Belfast City Airport have been in contact with another city-based UK airport after more than 100 people claimed fumes from a plane made them ill . |
| 3 | Group savings schemes and such like which have been in existence for many years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | At present , horizontal presses of between 2,000 and 8,000 kilograms are allowed , but trials with larger machines have been in progress for several years . |
| 6 | ‘ We have been in favour of this objective since 1962 , ’ she said . |
| 7 | Stemming procedures have been in use for many years , mainly as a relatively cheap way of conflating terms which are morphologically similar in the hope that they are also semantically similar . |
| 8 | Our knowledge of graded tests comes from modern languages , where tests have been in use for more than a decade ; from mathematics , where two sets of tests are currently in use ; from science ; and from the long-established Associated Board Examinations in music , dancing , and spoken English , or recitation . |
| 9 | I HAVE been in business for many years operating a small company in the construction industry . |
| 10 | Many of the people who were targeted to move from hospital under the scheme have been in hospital for many years , many of them for more than 40 or 50 years . |