Example sentences of "have [been] [adj] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For 15 years it has been illegal in the U8A to produce a new car without a three-way catalytic converter . |
| 2 | Novix has been available in the UK since early 1992 and has reportedly been picked up by Parliament , BP , Amerada Hess , GEC and British Telecom . |
| 3 | Although directors and officers ' liability insurance has been available in the UK since the 1930s , it has only come into wide use in the last few years . |
| 4 | But the snow , which has been slight in the past half-hour , suddenly begins to fall fast and furiously again , limiting her vision . |
| 5 | Yesterday , chairman of the council , Phyll Hendy , said : ‘ He has been unswerving in the service he has given to the parish and has been kind and co-operative to everyone . |
| 6 | It appears to me that the arguments which I have heard involve the consideration of three separate questions , namely : ( 1 ) does the ex turpi causa maxim and its related rules ( which I will refer to as ‘ the ex turpi causa defence ’ ) afford a defence to a claim for contribution under the Act of 1978 ? ( 2 ) If the ex turpi causa defence is capable of so applying , can it be said , with the degree of certainty necessary for a striking out order to be made , that the defence will exclude any contribution from the third party in the circumstances of this case ? ( 3 ) Leaving aside the ex turpi causa defence , can it be said with the necessary degree of certainty that the court will , under section 2(1) and ( 2 ) of the Act of 1978 , exempt the third party from liability to make contribution even if he has been negligent in the performance of some duty of care owed to the plaintiffs ? |
| 7 | Liver fluke is not and never has been present in the islands . |
| 8 | A positive test result means that antibodies have been found and means that HIV has been present in the body . |
| 9 | Sponsorship forms will then be sent which should be signed by a sponsor who has been present in the Royal Enclosure for at least eight years . |
| 10 | They will require a sponsor who has been present in the Royal Enclosure for eight years . |
| 11 | After months of pursuing its quarry , it looks like IXI Ltd has finally nailed down the OEM agreement with DEC for its X.desktop manager that has been long in the making . |
| 12 | New enterprises and institutions are not created de novo , out of nothing ; they emerge from a fabric of events which is already complex , which has been long in the weaving , and from which they take their characteristic shape and colour . |
| 13 | It says business has been healthy in the Netherlands where Peek Traffic BV reportedly had an excellent year and the future for the newly consolidated German operations , Peek Verkehrssysteme GmbH , also looks good , with prospective introduction of motorway guidance and public transport systems in Germany . |
| 14 | Never was a truer word spoken and Sean 's absence has been noticeable in the dearth of cricket coverage in the south since his death . |
| 15 | Never was a truer word spoken and Sean 's absence has been noticeable in the dearth of cricket coverage in the south since his death . |
| 16 | The former England Under-21 international , 23 last Tuesday , has been intrumental in the Norfolk club 's surprise position at the top of the table with his 12 goals , arguably making him the buy of the season . |
| 17 | There have to be doubts about Woosnam because he has shown so little of the form of which he has been capable in the past . |
| 18 | Today , I think people would say that a lot of what we did in those early days has been influential in the general brightening up of the high streets in this country . |
| 19 | The contribution of each has been influential in the development of such areas a robotics , natural language understanding , speech recognition and expert systems . |
| 20 | Such a model has been influential in the way we think about and respond to a variety of social problems but has been particularly significant in framing research , policy and practice in child abuse . |
| 21 | The two following chapters explore an issue which has been prominent in the debate on language teaching in recent years ( and which is related to the distinction between type and token descriptions which I discussed above ) , namely the relationship between meaning as formally encoded in a language , its grammar and lexis , and meaning which is achieved in context by the exploitation of these formal properties . |
| 22 | Voluntary effort has been prominent in the development of services for deprived children . |
| 23 | Perhaps he has no calling and has been unhappy in the family business for years . |
| 24 | The growth of venture capital funds in the UK has been substantial in the 1980s and is the result of a number of factors . |
| 25 | The combination of Blowpipes and US-supplied Stinger missiles has been effective in the past , because the Blowpipe is best against low-flying aircraft , while the Stingers are best against high-flying aircraft . |
| 26 | The technique adopted by US conservationists has been effective in the past . |
| 27 | It is not dignified to approach a client with mock servility , just because this client has been fortunate in the matter of this world 's goods . |
| 28 | Here , there is further anomaly , for it has been possible in the past for Anglican clergymen to circumvent the disqualification by virtue of the Clerical Disabilities Act 1870 , whilst others can not . |
| 29 | This will enable Mr Damant to calculate a better figure of maintainable earnings than has been possible in the past . |
| 30 | These data are insufficient to establish the variation of seismic wave speeds with depth in the Moon to anything like the same extent with which this has been possible in the Earth . |