Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in Wigston , few of the families that put down roots in the parish of Myddle during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had been there in earlier times ; the turnover of names between the 1370s poll tax returns and the subsidies levied in the reign of Henry VIII was equally remarkable in both parishes . |
| 2 | As far as health and safety is concerned , Les Bell , Scottish region director and head of the UK professional and financial division of Sedgwick , said , ‘ directors have been personally in the firing line for some time ’ . |
| 3 | This criticism is strengthened to some extent by the observation that much creative work in this genre in recent years has been precisely in the elaboration of dependent development in the countries of the semiperiphery . |
| 4 | Another witness of the charter to St Wandrille dated 1033 is King Henry I of France , who is known from other sources to have been briefly in exile with Robert at Fécamp , and according Edward the title " king of the English " would presumably have done Robert 's prestige no harm at all , as he would thus have been entertaining two exiled monarchs at the same time . |
| 5 | At the same time problems have been much in evidence . |
| 6 | On other occasions committees have been generally in support of government action but have urged that it be undertaken more vigorously : the Defence Committee has been critical of the Ministry of Defence when it has spent less than the sums provided in the annual estimates . |
| 7 | ‘ You bastards have been over in France for the past three months , sitting in the sunshine and screwing all those French bints . ’ |
| 8 | Protesters have been out in force as the council makes its second attempt to set its annual budget . |
| 9 | The question of royal finances had been particularly in the public eye following the confirmation by Peter Brooke , the National Heritage Secretary , on Nov. 23 that the government would meet the costs of restoration of substantial portions of Windsor Castle which had been partly destroyed by fire on Nov. 20 . |
| 10 | Terrorism , from whatever source , is the enemy of democracy and its evil forces have been out in strength in recent days . |
| 11 | ‘ The pits are so dramatic , and there 's so many of them , that we feel someone would have noticed if the whales had been there in such numbers in previous years . ’ |
| 12 | The youngest children had been out in the playground ; some of them survived . |
| 13 | Four of the committee members are from developing countries , and the experience of several of the others has been mostly in these countries . |
| 14 | After all , the leading ministers had been continuously in office for the past ten years , and had achieved many of their declared objectives . |
| 15 | The great Da Ponte operas have been constantly in the international repertory since the early years of the century ( with the exception of Così fan tutte , which finally came back into its own in the 1950s ) ; while the lesser-known ones such as Idomeneo and La clemenza di Tito are now taking their place alongside their more familiar stable-mates . |
| 16 | Ever since Kevin Costner delighted impressionable audiences with Dances With Wolves , feathers , beads and tepees have been unusually in demand in Tinseltown . |
| 17 | Despite differences of emphasis between different unions , union policies have been overwhelmingly in favour of technological change , while at the same time seeking increased involvement in the process of change to " maximise the benefits and minimise the costs " of such changes . |
| 18 | For the last fortnight some prisoners have been here in person . |
| 19 | When the Hooligans first put in an appearance , the floggers and die-hards had been much in evidence , but they were eased aside with the growing recognition that Hooliganism was a pointer towards a general dislocation among the youth — and not just a ‘ hard core ’ — and that the problem was therefore immune to a narrow penal response . |
| 20 | For the last three days ten novice sailors have been out in the Western Approaches , sailing in winds of 40 knots or more through occasional sleet showers . |