Example sentences of "have [been] in the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Another radical change has been in the traditional structure for production management on the major multi-business sites . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Chris has been in the international oil industry for 36 years . |
| 9 | The biggest decline has been in the 1.3 to two-litre sector . |
| 10 | To forecast where the economy is heading , economists need information on where it is now , and where it has been in the recent past . |
| 11 | The great increase during this century has been in the paid work of married women . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Now remember I am the leader of a party that has been in the front line against his violence for twenty years , and have been at many risks , as have been members of my party , but when I say that that dialogue is the best hope they 've seen for peace for twenty years . |
| 16 | Yes , he has said that and I am saying , I am saying , as somebody who has been in the front line against this violence , and with due respect to Mr Major knows a little more about it than he does |
| 17 | COURTAULDS has been in the front line in war-ravaged Bosnia — after playing a similar role in the Gulf conflict . |
| 18 | The most dramatic increase has been in the former Soviet Union , where the area of land under forest rose by 70 million hectares — three times the size of Britain — over the past 25 years . |
| 19 | ( b ) Cancellation and registration at HM Land Registry : notices If the former matrimonial home has been in the sole name of the husband , then on completion of the various transactions the Class F Land Charge ( or notice if registered land ) should be cancelled . |
| 20 | Gavin is also 1990 Junior British Champion in the under 45 kilo category , and has been in the top three of every competition he has ever entered . |
| 21 | It has been in the initial stage in which wishing prevails over thinking , generalisation over observation , and in which little attempt is made at a critical analysis of existing facts or available means . |
| 22 | Furthermore , given that much of trade union growth in the four countries over the post-World War II period has been in the white-collar field there are difficulties in relating aggregate union membership changes to changes in the wages of manual workers only . |
| 23 | However , by and large , the audience split between the commercial and non-commercial sectors has been in the 40:60 ratio ( or vice versa ) and , therefore , within acceptable limits . |
| 24 | Dataquest says that to date much of the growth in the Unix market has been in the scientific and engineering world , but that future growth will be more business-oriented . |
| 25 | There has been in the 1980s in Italy , as elsewhere , a revival of historical narrative in which , however , the reader is not allowed to take the authenticity and authority of the historical material for granted . |
| 26 | LM It is very easy in the kind of society Czechoslovakia has been in the past twenty years to lose a more general perspective on events . |
| 27 | An international panel of climate experts , chaired by Dr John Houghton , director of the Meteorological Office , have warned that global temperatures will rise by 0.3C each decade , making the planet warmer than it has been in the past 10,000 years . |
| 28 | Most of the new employment creation around York has been in the northern sector , not in the southern sector . |
| 29 | It has been in the sub-contracting game for so long that about a third of Toyota or Nissan cars are to varying degrees made by other smaller firms . |
| 30 | ‘ We have seen extortionate increases in fares while BR has been in the public sector , ’ he said . |