Example sentences of "a [noun sg] have been in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is not the tampons that cause the disease but the bacteria which develops when a tampon has been in too long . |
| 2 | There is , however , a difference between imposing liability where the company has collapsed and it emerges that a director has been in total dereliction of duty or something close to it , and using the law to promote managerial dynamism . |
| 3 | The County Council I full well remember some four years ago made a decision that once a site had been in peril , once a decision was made it should n't be brought back into the arena again . |
| 4 | It maybe still the same now , erm because right up to the time I erm retired we , we had on occasions to pay for the residual value of a tyre , perhaps a bus had been in accident and the tyre had suffered damage which it was n't possible to repair it or retread it , perhaps a hole had been pierced through the wall , they scrapped that tyre and we had to pay for the residual value , mind you being in accident we could then claim it off the insurance company but , so right up to the time I retired that 's how tyres were paid for . |
| 5 | A fox had been in the night and left footprints in the dew , right up to the kitchen wagon . |
| 6 | A ceasefire had been in force in Cambodia since May 1 [ see pp. 38194-95 ] . |
| 7 | Further , the longer a party has been in opposition , the fewer of its leaders will have had ministerial office . |