Example sentences of "been [verb] in a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have been living in a Social Services Home for about seven years . |
| 2 | If she was a boy , she says , she would have been put in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 3 | Comdisco had been playing in a high stakes financial game known as risk arbitrage , hoping to get ahead of the rapid run-up in a company 's share price when it became the object of a takeover ( or the reversal of fortune that occurred when a takeover fell apart ) . |
| 4 | A recent survey of 50 management experts who 's conclusions have just been published in a new Women in Management report . |
| 5 | Britain 's best known anti-virus software comes from S&S International in the shape of Dr Solomon 's Anti-Virus Toolkit , which has now been launched in a new Windows version . |