Example sentences of "the [noun sg] have been in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Though the brand had been in the market since before the war , it had a very small market share . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The cabin had been in darkness , and she had been alone . |
| 7 | Since then the pickup has been in a police pound near Cheltenham . |
| 8 | The colt has been in constant demand for the 2,000 Guineas and is a 12–1 chance . |
| 9 | The drawing has been in the patron 's family since that date and has never previously been exhibited or published . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | As for any signal of a new direction under Louis Gerstner , IBM stresses that the bid has been in the works for months . |
| 14 | how useful the review had been in producing proposals for institutional c change . |
| 15 | The Brigade has been in Normandy since the 6th June in constant contact with the enemy until we reached the Seine . |
| 16 | ‘ I was angry and upset to read that somebody connected with the club had been in contact with Steve Coppell . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Archdeacon did not , diplomatically , point out that the Bishop had not consulted Lord Dersingham when the living had been in his gift . |
| 19 | Now at this point I want to sort of take a break from looking at the development of the Communist Party to looking briefly at the peasantry because although the peasantry have been in the background for much of the time , we have n't actually looked in any detail , so far , at the condition of the peasantry in China . |
| 20 | Within the German Social Democratic Party the issue had been in dispute for some time . |
| 21 | The girl has been in a council children 's home and with foster parents since being made a ward of court . |
| 22 | The pub has been in the family for over a century . |
| 23 | ‘ Stand ’ is proved by the observations of the officer concerned and although it is not necessary to prove the vehicle had been in the offending position for a particular period of time the court may find it helpful if the officer could give evidence , ‘ The vehicle was parked on Bradford Road from 20.00 hours to 21.00 hours etc . ’ |
| 24 | Just how successful the campaign has been in straight money terms ( costs per account opened ) is unclear but the advertising is undoubtedly asking to have a different relationship with the viewer than the more passive tradition of the medium . |
| 25 | A report by Helmut Schlesinger made public on Sept. 30 indicated that the greater part of the DM44,000 million of " compulsory DM sales " by the Bundesbank in the week when the pound and the lira withdrew from the ERM had been in support of sterling ( this figure apparently excluding operations conducted on Sept. 22-23 when the franc was under particular pressure — see below ) . |
| 26 | The Cooperative had been in severe financial difficulties for several years and in 1981 , after its own bank had withdrawn its support , it turned for help to the Canadian Cooperative Credit Society . |
| 27 | The Constable had been in the Force since 1924 and had an excellent character [ and ] served in the trenches at the age of fifteen and a half . |
| 28 | The type has been in Ireland for at least 4,000 years , according to archaeological evidence , and it is within the same ancestral group as the White Park , the Welsh cattle and the old Scottish breeds , and also the European remnant breeds such as the Hérens of the Alps and the Camargue of southern France , to which the Kerry bears a noticeable likeness . |
| 29 | BOEING 'S 707 ( the type has been in the vintage class for some while ) has finally ceased production . |
| 30 | The boy had been in his tutelage now for two and a half years , closer far to him than to his own Lancaster kin . |