Example sentences of "have [been] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , it has to be said , has been in no small part due to the advent of the in-store bakery ; a concept which has really taken off over the last 10 years . |
| 2 | However , since he left school he has been in no further trouble with the police and , although unemployed , remains happily at home with his family . |
| 3 | Disney has been in a protracted dispute with contractors over costings . |
| 4 | For more than a year now , that masterpiece of engineering and sculpture , the great Peterhof cascade ( 1714–21 ) consisting of 279 sculptures and sixty-five fountains , has been in a critical condition . |
| 5 | Proving ignorance of facts that one might or might not have known is impossible , unless one has been in a well-documented coma . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ The Haven has been in a right uproar since the power failure , I can tell you . |
| 8 | He has been in a persistent vegetative state at Airedale General Hospital near Keighley , Yorkshire , ever since . |
| 9 | The tender has been in a finished condition for some time and was seen at the last Open Day some two years ago . |
| 10 | Indeed it could be argued that ever since the 1960s when inclusive charter holidays began to ‘ take-off ’ the United Kingdom industry has been in a continued state of flux . |
| 11 | I believe a lot of what they have done has been in a calculated way , like getting George Best on the cover . |
| 12 | The protection is acquired once an employee has been in a particular employment for two years , though there are special rules concerning part-time employees and for calculating the date up to which the continuous employment is measured . |
| 13 | Historically the BBC has been in a privileged position to negotiate coverage with the ‘ gentlemen amateurs ’ of the MCC , the Committee of the All-England Club , and the four rugby unions . |
| 14 | Ever since the record industry walked off the dancefloor , disco has been in a constant state of revival . |
| 15 | The figures are good news and show how successful the company has been in a competitive market . |
| 16 | All that we have written in this section has been in a light vein , but there is a very serious side to it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | President Nyerere of Tanzania ( as we shall see in greater detail later ) has taken the view that , in a country faced with problems of poverty , ignorance , disease and underdevelopment on a gigantic scale , press freedom should be limited just as it has been in the liberal democracies in wartime . |
| 20 | Another radical change has been in the traditional structure for production management on the major multi-business sites . |
| 21 | Firstly , I am reporting to you that there has been in the current year additional efficiency savings over and above those that previously anticipated er at the level of two hundred thousand pounds and so we are assuming in the budget erm that those can continue into ninety four , five and thereafter , and then we 'll see the resolutions have been amended to take that into account and the text of the erratum sheet explains how that 's been done . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Sheffield Wednesday winger has been in the international wilderness since last October 's match with Turkey , but the pair had talks after Wednesday 's win over Spurs on Sunday . |
| 24 | ‘ Chris has been in the international oil industry for 36 years . |
| 25 | The biggest decline has been in the 1.3 to two-litre sector . |
| 26 | To forecast where the economy is heading , economists need information on where it is now , and where it has been in the recent past . |
| 27 | The great increase during this century has been in the paid work of married women . |
| 28 | This victory is a fillip for Mrs Bandaranaike , who became the world 's first woman prime minister in 1960 , but has been in the political wilderness in recent years . |
| 29 | For British readers , the first model — which has been in the political , if not the economic , ascendancy for the past decade and more — is the more familiar . |
| 30 | Studies of rape in England and Wales suggest that two-thirds of rapes take place in the home of the victim or the offender , and that only one-third involve strangers ; that two-fifths of victims suffer physical violence as well as rape , and one-sixth suffer additional sexual indignities ; that recent years have seen an increase in the reporting of rapes between acquaintances , and that rapes are increasing a little in their intrinsic seriousness ( i.e. in terms of the violence used , other sexual acts , etc ) , but that the most significant rise has been in the average length of sentences imposed on rapists by the courts . |