Example sentences of "have been in [noun] [prep] [adj] " 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 | Canada 's Norm Hadley and Glenn Ennis , widely recognised as two of the outstanding forwards during the ‘ 91 World Cup campaign , have been in Japan since late last year and are now looking ahead to the new season . |
| 3 | ‘ All these customers were gained from , or won in competition with , Castrol , who have been in Czechoslovakia for 30 years , ’ says Pomfret with delight . |
| 4 | After preparing the meat , make sure the work surfaces or chopping board which have been in contact with raw meat and poultry are disinfected with a germ-killing product such as Domestos Multi Surface Cleaner , before going on to prepare salad stuffs and vegetables . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Group savings schemes and such like which have been in existence for many years . |
| 7 | MAGISTRATES ' Courts have been in existence for hundreds of years , presided over by lay Justices of the Peace ( magistrates ) , that is people who have no legal qualification . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Listening to the Minister today , it was hard to appreciate that the Conservatives have been in government for 13 years . |
| 10 | I have been in Paris for 4 days and just got back to read the 100 messages from the list ! |
| 11 | All recorded immigrants have been in excess of four inches high . ’ |
| 12 | " They have been in seclusion for eight days , " said the sultan , " learning the secrets of womanhood . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The problem is to seek the correct balance , and to this end monitoring and studies have been in progress since 1989 . |
| 15 | ‘ We are established in many other sports , including the Johnnie Walker Ryder Cup , the RAC Rally , the Silk Cut Derby at Hickstead , the Benson and Hedges Snooker Masters at Wembley , the Volvo European PGA Tour and the British Grand Prix ’ , explains Delahunty , ‘ and although we have been in tennis since 1985 when Stella Artois first commissioned us , I still look at tennis as a growth area . |
| 16 | It would appear that much of France 's corporate aggrandisement has been undertaken by state-owned companies , many of which have been in receipt of illicit subsidies . |
| 17 | As one teacher trainer put it not long ago , ‘ I have been in education for 25 years and I have never known morale so low . |
| 18 | While many Japanese have been in favour of close relations with the US , the opposition parties in the Diet have consistently opposed the Security Treaty . |
| 19 | I have been in favour of regional government for as long as I have been in politics . |
| 20 | ‘ We have been in favour of this objective since 1962 , ’ she said . |
| 21 | Engineer Peter William Barlow sank the first hole in the ground on Tower Hill in 1869. 130 years on we 've got creaking trains that have been in service for 30 years and more . |
| 22 | The council 's Labour leadership , who have been in control since 1986 , have argued that they had no control over the transactions as the day to day running of the finance department is in the hands of expert financial staff . |
| 23 | It has been reported for example that the UK has been identified as the main European culprit as far as sulphur emissions and the killing of Norway and Sweden 's lakes is concerned , yet the UK 's sulphur emissions have been in decline since 1970 while acidification has not . |
| 24 | Provisions in the Constitution for Turkish Cypriot participation in government have been in abeyance since intercommunal fighting in 1963 . |
| 25 | Similar provisions have been in force since 1980 . |
| 26 | In addition to Moore , neither Geoff Cooke , England 's manager , nor Dick Best , the coach , were greatly impressed by the experimental ruck and maul variations , which have been in force at under-19 level in England this season . |
| 27 | These laws have been in force for hundreds of years — and they 're one of the things that are going to disappear in 1992 , at least in Germany . |
| 28 | Where such contracts have been in force for 3 years or longer , but are not for a specific undertaking eg building a house , claims are admissible under the policy . |
| 29 | Angered by suggestions that his conduct was inexplicable and that he had not offered any constructive criticism during a 3½ hour inquest into Yorkshire 's dismal summer , Boycott claimed that the cricket sub-committee would not accept any form of responsibility : ‘ They have been in charge for five of the last six years but will not agree that they are at least partly to blame for the fact that Yorkshire cricket is in a mess . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |