Example sentences of "[art] [noun] have been in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has become something of a cause célèbre in rock press folklore , but in truth the NME had been in worse scrapes before and no doubt has many more ahead . |
| 2 | The base had been in line for the axe under the Options for Change review of the Services but was saved because the cost of relocation exceeded the saving . |
| 3 | Subjects were told that after they had heard the passage one sentence from it would be repeated , either exactly , or with some small change , and that their task was to say whether the sentence had been in the passage or not . |
| 4 | Though the brand had been in the market since before the war , it had a very small market share . |
| 5 | It appears that the case had been in progress before the Heliopolitan Divine Council for eighty years and the gods were understandably becoming impatient and short-tempered , yet they seemed unable to decide upon a judgement . |
| 6 | In the English civil wars of the mid-thirteenth century the cavalry had been in command ; but fifty years later , things were beginning to change . |
| 7 | They will also want to know how successful the plans have been in achieving what they set out to achieve . |
| 8 | Policies with prefix letters PM or FM ( Motor Car ) , MC ( Motor Cycle ) or CM ( Commercial Vehicle — excluding policies numbered lower than 100,000 ) will qualify for a Special Discount of just under 6% where the policies have been in force continuously for at least three years when they are renewed during the year commencing 1st July 1981 . |
| 9 | He had been waiting there since hearing from Bartocci , less than an hour earlier , that the kidnappers had been in touch and that the car would be leaving as soon as it got dark . |
| 10 | Well you could say that erm our background goes back erm twenty-five years , in fact , we 've had a considerable involvement with industry both local and national for as long as the University has been in existence , which is now nearly twenty-five years . |
| 11 | Last month Amnesty International called for all charges against him to be withdrawn and concluded : ‘ At every stage the behaviour of the authorities has been in open defiance of the authority of the courts and the rule of law . ’ |
| 12 | The cabin had been in darkness , and she had been alone . |
| 13 | Also , my share of the Lothians has been in the care of my cousin the Bishop of Alba . |
| 14 | Since then the pickup has been in a police pound near Cheltenham . |
| 15 | The colt has been in constant demand for the 2,000 Guineas and is a 12–1 chance . |
| 16 | The PDC had been in opposition since leaving Endara 's government in April 1991 ; Arias had remained in the constitutional post of First Vice-President without attending Cabinet meetings . |
| 17 | Unusually , one of the schools had been in receipt of two Minor awards in successive years . |
| 18 | The drawing has been in the patron 's family since that date and has never previously been exhibited or published . |
| 19 | The bogs have been in the main part destroyed by forestry development and commercial peat cutting for horticulture . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The kids had been in the car and there was a water pistol on the shelf under the dash . |
| 22 | Robert Smith , defending , said : ‘ This is a very serious state of affairs , not least because the defendant has been in custody for at least 12 months . |
| 23 | If there was a body , it 's possible that the singeing of skin and flesh might have left identifiable organic deposits on the woodwork , but the Wheel has been in the water for some time and we must n't expect much . ’ |
| 24 | As for any signal of a new direction under Louis Gerstner , IBM stresses that the bid has been in the works for months . |
| 25 | In spite of the fact that the Carews had been in Ireland since the middle of the seventeenth century , he still regarded himself as an expatriate living among a semi-barbarous people in a semi-barbarous land . |
| 26 | how useful the review had been in producing proposals for institutional c change . |
| 27 | The Brigade has been in Normandy since the 6th June in constant contact with the enemy until we reached the Seine . |
| 28 | ‘ I was angry and upset to read that somebody connected with the club had been in contact with Steve Coppell . |
| 29 | Crosby blew his top after learning of the Coppell link and said yesterday : ‘ I was angry and upset to read somebody connected with the club had been in contact with Steve Coppell . |
| 30 | The Archdeacon did not , diplomatically , point out that the Bishop had not consulted Lord Dersingham when the living had been in his gift . |