Example sentences of "in [pron] [pers pn] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | But nowhere was there a mention of the exact circumstances in which they had been found . |
| 2 | Mr Hall said Miss Scott had explained she did not give notification of her mother 's death because she was afraid the authorities would discover the conditions in which they had been living . |
| 3 | He turned his attention mainly to the northern forests , however ; he examined the local juries as to the way in which they had been kept , and held Forest Eyres in all the northern Forest counties . |
| 4 | It showed what many journalists in Beirut had long realised : that the Palestinians regarded their cause , their country — Palestine — as infinitely more holy , more sacred than the nation in which they had been given refuge . |
| 5 | He stole the show and became the epitome of the American anti-hero , the spit-in-your-eye champion of counter-culture whose irreverence captivated and finally liberated his audiences from the time warp in which they had been trapped since Montgomery Clift , Marlon Brando and James Dean began it in a rather less volatile manner in the early Fifties . |
| 6 | I would eat tinned vegetables , being sure to drink the water in which they had been canned , and I would conserve body fluid by eating little or no protein . |
| 7 | as if they were already dead , Karelius fancied , and from limbo could still hear the sounds of the battle in which they had been killed . |
| 8 | From the 11th century , such events had been popular for about 500 years but over the centuries there had been great changes to the ways in which they had been conducted . |
| 9 | By this time , they were looking ahead to the long-term effects on the children of the arbitrary manner in which they had been removed , and the lengthy absence from their homes and families . |
| 10 | It would be an ironical stroke if investigations into the affair resulted not in the discovery of those happenings in which they had been guilty but only in those where they had been blameless . |
| 11 | These components were , therefore , far more representative of the structure of G-BEBP than two brand new units would have been ; indeed the period in which they had been subjected to the stresses and strains of flight was remarkably similar to that of the accident aircraft . |
| 12 | Written documents could be and were easily forged whereas seals , crosses , medallions etc. were , in the way in which they had been developed and used in pre-Norman Britain , distinctive individual objects , which were less easily forged , more identifiable and more obviously linked to particular individuals . |
| 13 | Readers had responded to a Desert Island Discs competition , in which they had been asked to indicate their eight favourite works , the winner being the reader whose choice was nearest to consensus opinion . |
| 14 | It was n't so much his words which comforted Cassie , but rather the tone in which they had been said . |
| 15 | In the sixth scene those poor French wretches on the raft were represented in very much the same posture as that in which they had been first delineated by Monsieur Jerricault . |
| 16 | Laura , for instance , had two younger brothers , who were not settling very well into the stockbrokers ' firm in which they had been placed , and numerous uncles , one of them an old horror who obtained Scandinavian au pairs through advertisements in The Lady , and then , of course , her Norfolk cousins . |
| 17 | They had seen little of the house apart from a gloomy garden and a long corridor which led from the entrance hall to the room in which they had been received . |
| 18 | More and more armies were becoming reliable though still very cumbersome machines , mechanisms which could be relied on to perform competently on the battlefield the evolutions in which they had been trained , and to stand enemy fire without flinching . |
| 19 | The conditions in which they had been kept in the notorious Tazmamert prison had been so appalling that they had had to be transferred to a hospital for medical treatment to make them fit for release . |
| 20 | They became less and less forgivable as time cooled the heat of the moments in which they had been spoken . |
| 21 | Clearly , therefore , children preferred the inner-city environment and family life in which they had been born and reared . |
| 22 | Several subjects reported that they felt that they would be able to give far more information if they were permitted to recall the junctions in the order in which they had been driven . |
| 23 | Both Hastings and McGeechan ranked the Scottish effort as one of the finest in which they had been involved . |
| 24 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 25 | Choreographers must have been dancers themselves if they are to understand and feel the natural abilities of the body and to allow fur the influence of the techniques in which they have been trained . |
| 26 | In most vertebrates in which they have been intensively studied — amphibians and birds — gastrulation movements are rather complicated . |
| 27 | For instance , when J. Henry Thoreau wrote of the greyness of rocks , he described the air as the thin paint in which they have been dipped and brushed by the wind . |
| 28 | The result is a crisis of confidence , often resolved by teachers returning to the assurance of tradition which represents , after all , the more influential authority of the culture in which they have been nurtured . |
| 29 | Gary McAllister' exquisite chip six minutes from time sparked a frantic late charge from the faded champions to salvage a replay from a disastrous six days in which they have been dumped out of Europe by Rangers and mauled 4–0 at Manchester City . |
| 30 | Instead , the same flat rate applies to everyone , multiplied by the number of years in which they have been participants of the scheme . |