Example sentences of "have been in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disney has been in a protracted dispute with contractors over costings . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Proving ignorance of facts that one might or might not have known is impossible , unless one has been in a well-documented coma . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ The Haven has been in a right uproar since the power failure , I can tell you . |
| 6 | He has been in a persistent vegetative state at Airedale General Hospital near Keighley , Yorkshire , ever since . |
| 7 | The tender has been in a finished condition for some time and was seen at the last Open Day some two years ago . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I believe a lot of what they have done has been in a calculated way , like getting George Best on the cover . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Ever since the record industry walked off the dancefloor , disco has been in a constant state of revival . |
| 13 | The figures are good news and show how successful the company has been in a competitive market . |
| 14 | All that we have written in this section has been in a light vein , but there is a very serious side to it . |
| 15 | She had no wish to hurt Anna and besides , how could she complain when the truth was that she was happier here at the palazzo than she 'd been in a long time ? |
| 16 | I think if I 'd been in a Western country I would have had a lot more comeback … |
| 17 | I 'd been in a light sleep . |
| 18 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 19 | However he considered that Vial ‘ was a man of such good natural abilities that when his mind was at ease , he had so much application that his deficiencies , had he lived , might have been in a great measure made up ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ They helped him many a time to keep his head above water or else we should have been in a poor way . ’ |
| 21 | He took himself off , illogically cursing Emily Groundwater ; if it had not been for her he would have been in a warm bed , with Bible Willie breathing beside him . |
| 22 | It suffices to say that under it , once black Rhodesians had acquired a sizeable number of seats , but far less than a majority , they would have been in a powerful position to form a coalition with any breakaway group of whites . |
| 23 | She worked like an automaton , and her mind was as drowned out by it as her speech would have been in a noisy factory . |
| 24 | The survivors can scarcely have been in a strong position to demand territory from the Romans . |
| 25 | These galleries face North , and , as Ms E. Little explains in her book , Chronicles of Patterdale , they would have been in a good position beside the early road to attract the attention of the wool clothiers and their servants , the broggers , passing by on horseback in search of stock . |
| 26 | We I wonder how quick they would have got him in though if he would n't have been in a private scheme . |
| 27 | But for the mechanical hospital bed , she might have been in a first-class hotel : the sitting room was agreeably furnished in eau-de-Nil , the bedroom in old rose ; the interconnecting rooms faced the sea over lawns and flower beds , though they were bleak at this time of the year . |
| 28 | As for the House of Mattli , it might have been in a different world to the hostel , with its air of being a cross between a workhouse and a boarding school . |
| 29 | or they 'd have been in a different position |
| 30 | His shop would have been in a back street , probably in a run-down part of the town , amongst the dwellings of those whom he catered for ; indeed , Sowerberry himself was only just above the bread-line . |