Example sentences of "[been] [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The search for a proper definition has certainly been on in the House of Commons for several years . |
| 2 | Iceland has twenty-two volcanoes , but the ones which have been most in the news are located on the Westmann Islands , just off the south coast . |
| 3 | I looked around for this other speaker , this eminent historian who had been right in the middle of the action , this acute analyst who assembled with such thoroughness the material I too had worked on , who had packed it into enlightening and readable volumes . |
| 4 | It has often been pointed out , and in my view with justice , that the school curriculum has in the past been overwhelmingly in the power of the universities . |
| 5 | And erm I think I was in the middle somewhere , I was n't er brilliant but I must have been somewhere in the middle I suppose . |
| 6 | The position of former Yugoslavia has always been somewhere in the middle between socialist East and capitalist West . |
| 7 | I had a feeling that if I had been somewhere in the midst of a mob at Madison Square Garden they would have sill got that metallic voice to talk to me . |
| 8 | Erm but the reality is that erm we would therefore need our budget to , in fact for the first half of this year , to have , well for the whole year , to have reflected the late delivery of the systems which would 've , if we 'd had that in the budget and we 'd been projecting the whole budget at say two point six , our budget figure would 've been somewhere in the region of another eighty to ninety thousand higher than it currently is for this first quarter . |
| 9 | Well this is erm as I say we , we , we could 've been somewhere in the region of two hundred and fifty thousand just on the I T issues alone . |
| 10 | The stout landlord , who had been down in the cellar fetching a fresh keg of ale , lowered it to the floor . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | Born about 1182 in Normandy , the son of a German father ( Henry the Lion ) and an Aquitanian mother , he had been much in the company of his uncle , King Richard I , who created him count of Poitou at the age of fourteen . |
| 13 | An hour had n't been much in the way of preparation time , and he 'd been forced to improvise . |
| 14 | There had n't been much in the way of affection to steal . |
| 15 | When the three of them had been together in the kitchen , the infant Camille crawling round with jam on her face and fingers , he had sat in a state of sullenness bordering on rage or had conspicuously moved about preparing food for himself , knowing quite well that his dinner was cooking in the oven . |
| 16 | Stealth will prove to be a valuable asset ; it has often been so in the past . |
| 17 | At any rate it had been so in the past when Elmwood had been a private school . |
| 18 | Had it always been so in the period of the conflict with England ? |
| 19 | His judicial appointments were much criticized on the ground in effect that ‘ Halsbury appointed to the High Court , and to a lesser extent to the county court , men of little or no legal learning whose previous career in public life had been largely in the service of the Conservative Party or else were relations of his own ’ . |
| 20 | The promulgation of this version seems to have been largely in the hands of Buckingham , who lectured the lords and the mayor and aldermen of London on the subject — the latter for a ‘ good half hour ’ according to the Great Chronicle . |
| 21 | The promulgation of this version seems to have been largely in the hands of Buckingham , who lectured the lords and the mayor and aldermen of London on the subject — the latter for a ‘ good half hour ’ according to the Great Chronicle . |
| 22 | ‘ So would you have if you 'd had to put up with half of what I 've been through in the past ! |
| 23 | While the unit had been away in the field , the usual correspondence was being exchanged between the various staffs involved , almost certainly without Stirling 's knowledge . |
| 24 | Anything you say dear , you 've been away in the san , you 've been out |
| 25 | Peter had been outside in the wasteland . |
| 26 | The distinction has been more in the minds of the negotiators ( especially the British negotiators ) than it has been a reality or , more important , likely to be given much credence by the Court of Justice if and when it comes to adjudicate on the basis of the Treaty . |
| 27 | While In 1960 Cambridge English had been still in the process of accommodating traditional canonical scholarship to the revisions of the new criticism , by the end of that decade this process had been displaced in the name of a pluralism of approaches . |
| 28 | The stock which has been sold has been disproportionately in the form of family houses . |
| 29 | Well we 've got up this morning we 've , and I said to Trevor have the kids been up in the night ? |
| 30 | ‘ And if you do n't get out of here I 'll tell him you 've been up in the woods with a dog . |