Example sentences of "been [vb pp] in [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The INLA has also revamped in the past two months and is posing a new threat in North Belfast , where 80 RUC officers have been drafted in to halt the escalating spiral of violence . |
| 2 | In 1977 , at the time of the Bullock Committee on remoulding industrial relations , Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany had been brought in to instruct the Prime Minister , Callaghan , and Britain 's industrial leaders and trade unionists on the need to frame a new industrial climate as a basis for productive growth and a revived influence in the world . |
| 3 | As it was a special fundraising dance instead of the regularly fortnightly hop , a three-piece band had been brought in to replace the usual stack of gramophone records and there was ‘ real food ’ — fishpaste sandwiches , sausage rolls and cheese and pineapple on sticks — which the ‘ committee ’ had spent the entire afternoon preparing . |
| 4 | Inhutani II has been brought in to replace the multinational Scott company , which pulled out of the project at the end of 1989 after an intensive campaign by environmental groups , centred around the Women 's Environmental Network and Survival International . |
| 5 | Thus fire may well spread throughout the height of the rack before sufficient sprinklers have been brought in to ensure the general control of the fire zone . |
| 6 | More sand has been put in to cover the high water table . ’ |
| 7 | For the first time the public have been allowed in to watch the floodlit night feeding of thousands of birds at the Slimbridge Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust . |