Example sentences of "have been in [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is the language of the statement and the comments attributed to Edwards that are likely to cause further friction between him and both local climbers — with whom he has been in conflict in the past — and the BMC . |
| 2 | Inevitably , in such a well-established industry — modern-style factoring has been in existence in the UK since the 1960s product improvement has come at the margins . |
| 3 | This has been in existence in an annual version since early 1978 , and was first used for UK forecasting in March 1980 , and has recently had an aggregate ‘ supply-side ’ added ( this determining the equilibrium values of output , unemployment and relative prices ) . |
| 4 | The planning system has been in existence in roughly its present form since 1947 but no one has before attempted to measure how much the system costs . |
| 5 | Brook has been in operation in Britain for 27 years , and the evidence suggests that Brook has contributed to the decline of sexual health there . |
| 6 | A covering loop ileostomy was eelectively omitted in low risk cases until September 1988 , since then a clinical trial has been in progress in which patients were randomised to receive either an ileostomy or no ileostomy . |
| 7 | Geometry is a part of the mathematics syllabus which has been in decline in recent years . |
| 8 | Julie Sawyer has been in business in Gloucester for 8 years . |
| 9 | This will replace the complex three-tier system which has been in use in recent years and involved graded brackets ranging from 12.5% on sales up to FFr15,000 down to 2.4% on those over FFr300,000 . |
| 10 | The ‘ Rochester ’ method of fingerspelling with speech and lip-reading has been in use in the USA for over a hundred years ( Savage , Evans and Savage , 1981 ) . |
| 11 | This has been in use in the works office for some time , it was , it used to be called an aide-memoire . |
| 12 | But if you 'd been in trial in America |
| 13 | They picked up so much more corn that — if I were to leave them — they 'd have been in trouble in no time . |
| 14 | The restoration enables visitors to see it as it would have been in use in good running order but not ‘ as new ’ . |
| 15 | Gunpowder is said to have been in use in certain Continental mines early in the 17th Century . |
| 16 | Local youth offices had been in existence in a few cities as early as 1909 in Mainz ( founded by the mayor Georg Schmidt ) and 1910 in Hamburg . |
| 17 | Family allowances , introduced in Britain in the Beveridge scheme , had been in operation in France since 1932 . |
| 18 | Although railed tramways had been in use in various parts of the country from the middle of the 18th century , generally in connection with coal mines , the first true railway in Scotland was the line from Kilmarnock to Troon . |
| 19 | Some of the very earliest composing machines in Britain had been in use in Edinburgh in the 1860s . |
| 20 | For the last two years he had been in practice in Northampton , and he did not at that stage wish to endanger his prospects there by letting his application to Bedford be generally known ; if Whitbread gave his support however , Thackeray would ‘ make his pretensions public ’ . |
| 21 | Instead , the presidential insignia and other symbols of government were handed over by the president of the anti-communist Polish government which had been in exile in London since 1939 , Ryszard Kaczorowski . |
| 22 | Sir Peter , who relinquished the post of Governor on Dec. 1 , 1989 [ see p. 37592 ] , had been in office in March 1988 when three members of the IRA were shot dead by British security forces [ see p. 36236 ] , and a statement issued by the Irish republican party Sinn Féin on Sept. 19 accused him of being " directly responsible " for the death of the three . |
| 23 | The immediately following articles give the newly independent State the right to succeed to any treaty which had been in force in its territory , regardless of the wishes of any other party to the treaty . |
| 24 | The SNC agreed to contact the UN Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , requesting him to send personnel to control the ceasefire which had been in force in Cambodia since early May . |
| 25 | A ceasefire had been in force in Cambodia since May 1 [ see pp. 38194-95 ] . |
| 26 | In Cairo , Stirling had recruited Bob Melot , a Belgian who had been in business in Egypt before the war . |
| 27 | Fassi , a campaigner for Saudi democracy and opponent of the Gulf war , had been in prison in Saudi Arabia since his sudden arrest in and deportation from Jordan in October 1991 . |
| 28 | A general strike had been in effect in the city since December , with workers and students demanding the resignation of the President and the government , which , they alleged , were harbouring former Ceausescu supporters . |
| 29 | " No good , Peter — I 've been in court in far too many fraud cases . |
| 30 | But the communists in Russia were er th all this er Gulag Arli Archipelago and secret police have been in existence in Russia for hundreds of years before the com er communists came in . |