Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] have been in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Young England Rugby Club has been in existence for two years but is now being relaunched as a major part of the RFU youth initiative with its own clear aims and ambitions . |
| 2 | Another significant change in carp fishing technique has been in surface fishing . |
| 3 | Indy Car racing has been in existence since 1909 . |
| 4 | Hnatiuk says his savings account has been in good shape for a boy this past two years . |
| 5 | The Serious Fraud Office has been in operation for three years and has achieved a striking rate of success in serious and complex frauds . |
| 6 | Rothesay Castle has been in the capable hands of custodian Fiona Macrae for the last eight years , assisted throughout the summer months by her father Finlay , who has been the seasonal custodian for over twenty years . |
| 7 | Since the beginnings of technology , now about 200 years ago in the case of the U.K. , the labour market has been in a continuous state of flux . |
| 8 | His field work has been in the Cycladic and Orkney Islands , and he is best known to the public through appearances on BBC TV 's ‘ Chronicle ’ programme , and for his book Before civilisation ( 1973 ) , which transformed prehistoric chronology by applying the results of Carbon 14 dating . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , my field work has been in Africa , mostly , ’ he said patiently . |
| 10 | In the event the conviction for capital murder was affirmed on the ground that ( the evidence being overwhelming ) there had been no miscarriage of justice , despite the majority 's view that the trial judge had been in error . |
| 11 | Three families in Ayrshire , for instance , who had eight children taken away in a raid in June 1990 ; little was heard of their situation until after the Orkney case had been in the headlines for some time . |
| 12 | The WISE Vehicle Programme has been in operation for many years now , following the launch of the original WISE I bus in WISE Year 1984 . |
| 13 | In his reply , the Chief Executive told Councillor Matheson that the Social Work Department had been in the process of compiling guidelines when ‘ the present difficulties ’ arose . |
| 14 | An SVR4-on-Alpha plan has been in the works for as long as a year ( UX No 386 ) and was made all the more likely when Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA announced it would implement SVR4 on the high-end Alpha AXP systems it is to market . |
| 15 | Much of the InSCRU work has been in the context of assignment work , and is designed to change study habits . |
| 16 | It is fascinating to study the way that they bent the truth to promote a saleable product , yet even if the Trades Descriptions Act had been in force then , they would hardly ever have broken the law . |
| 17 | Indeed , contrary to MAFF 's stubbornly held views that the LFA Directive can not be used to support conservation except as an ancillary to agricultural development , the then Minister of Agriculture , Mr Peter Walker , answered a question in the House on 10 December 1981 on how successful the LFA Directive had been in encouraging production in the UK . |
| 18 | In a pre-Forum meeting between Australia and New Zealand , Australia expressed concern over the continuing allegations of human rights abuses by Papua New Guinea on Bougainville , where a secessionist guerrilla war had been in progress since 1989 . |
| 19 | Pete Messenger has been in the paper-making business for the last 6 years and he 's convinced hemp paper is the way of the future . |
| 20 | Much of the Guildhall Art Gallery collection has been in store since the destruction of the gallery in the last war . |
| 21 | Scotland Yard has been in touch with the Argentine inquiry . |
| 22 | ‘ I mean , maybe Scotland Yard have been in that area . ’ |
| 23 | The Soren Larsen , which starred in the TV series the Onedin Line had been in dry dock for seven months . |
| 24 | Much of the recent growth in service sector employment has been in private services . |
| 25 | Although the CNAA system had been in operation since 1964 , ‘ it is only recently that it has made almost total inroads as far as the central , advanced colleges of technology in Scotland are concerned ’ . |
| 26 | Football , and after just one game in the premier league Swindon Town have been in the transfer market to sign Wolves striker Andy Mutch … |
| 27 | A key link with the mainland , the Larne-Stranraer route has been in existence for almost 130 years and has become an integral part of Ulster 's maritime heritage . |
| 28 | The Mid Glamorgan Education Business Partnership has been in operation since 1989 . |
| 29 | Mrs Thatcher stonewalled her way through Question Time , repeatedly arguing that the Rover deal had been in the best interests of the taxpayer . |
| 30 | Stephen Dent has been in a wheel chair since an accident seven years ago , which left him paralysed from the waist down . |