Example sentences of "in [adj] [conj] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a time when the whole underground culture was at its height and I was very much involved in that and had been since early ‘ 67 . |
| 2 | Vu Oanh , 67 , and Le Phuoc Tho , 64 , were both elected to the secretariat in 1986 and had been in charge of mass mobilization and agriculture , respectively ; Pham Van Kai , 58 , the Soviet-trained Chair of the State Commission for Planning , was one of five southerners in the new politburo and a former mayor of Ho Chi Minh City ; Bui Thien Ngo , 62 , was Permanent Vice-Minister of the Interior ; Nong Duc Manh , 51 , a member of the Tay ethnic group and the first minority leader to be elected to the politburo , was head of the central committee 's commission for nationalities ; Pham The Duyet , 55 , was secretary of the Hanoi party committee and a former trade union leader ; Nguyen Duc Binh , 64 , was director of the Nguyen Duc Binh Institute for training party cadres ; Vo Tran Chi , 64 , was secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City party committee . |
| 3 | West Lodge in Albert Park , designed by C J Adams , who designed the now demolished Royal Exchange in Albert Road , was built in 1866 but has been empty since 1979 . |
| 4 | You will no doubt be familiar with the Tesco Healthy Eating campaign which started in 1985 and has been a major success . |
| 5 | Greer 's CSE Mathematics Book 1 was first published in 1978 — it is now into its fifth reprint ; Book 2 was first published in 1979 and has been reprinted twice . |
| 6 | The gardens were started in 1894 and have been gradually extended since then . |
| 7 | LCH was incorporated as a company in 1888 and has been providing market services continuously for more than a century . |
| 8 | Deene was acquired by Sir Robert Brudenell in 1514 and has been lived in ever since by his descendants including the 7th Earl of Cardigan who led the Charge of the Light Brigade . |
| 9 | Hay won this title as skip in 1984 and has been prominent as a player and coach in Scotland and Canada since . |
| 10 | The first of these aid and trade agreements was signed in 1975 and has been renewed four times . |
| 11 | This was Henry Stafford , duke of Buckingham , who had come of age in 1473 but had been refused any political role by Edward IV . |
| 12 | This was Henry Stafford , duke of Buckingham , who had come of age in 1473 but had been refused any political role by Edward IV . |
| 13 | The Islamic Republic of Mauritania , formerly part of French West Africa , gained full independence in 1960 and has been ruled since a military coup in 1978 by a Military Council of National Salvation ( Comité militaire de salut national — CMSN ) , headed by a chairman ( currently Col. Moaouia Ould Sidi Mohamed Taya ) who is President of the Republic and whose executive power derives from a Constitutional Charter published in 1978 . |
| 14 | The prime candidate for the job was General Henri Giraud , a courageous soldier who had opposed the armistice in 1940 and had been imprisoned by the Germans before escaping early in 1942 . |
| 15 | The strength of the Labour Party lay in its ability to win votes , which became increasingly clear in relation to the Liberals after the granting of manhood suffrage in 1918 and had been clear in relation to other socialist groups ever since 1900 . |
| 16 | Born in 1896 , he joined Purdey 's in 1918 and has been with them ever since . |
| 17 | A phased return of responsibility from the army to the civilian police was begun in 1976 and had been completed for most of the region by early 1977 . |
| 18 | Two books , Folklore of Prehistoric Sites in Britain by Leslie Grinsell and The Secret Country by Janet and Colin Bord , appeared in 1976 and have been essential in preparing this chapter . |
| 19 | Space-age French designer Andre Courreges came up with a classic in 1964 that has been much copied since — the mid-calf , soft kid , white boot for women . |
| 20 | Exchange control was introduced in 1930 and has been in force ever since , but subject to the provisions of exchange control it was a basic tenet of pre-communist Hungarian law that foreigners had the same rights as Hungarians in all respects ( but for some professions and performing public functions Hungarian citizenship was necessary ) . |
| 21 | It was discovered by Consolidated Gold Fields Ltd in 1978 and has been intensively drilled , but is currently subeconomic . |
| 22 | The first course began in 1978 and has been recruiting satisfactorily ever since on an annual basis . |
| 23 | Clinton dismissed the allegations as " an old story that was widely reported in 1978 and has been regularly recycled by the Republicans " . |
| 24 | Engraved with a crest and supported on a cylindrical stem , the eye-bath was made in London in 1818 and had been discovered in the collection of a West Yorkshire couple . |
| 25 | There is a parallel with the BCR here : Which preserved narrow gauge railway was opened in 1876 , declared bankrupt in 1877 , abandoned in 1912 and has been in the hands of private operators since 1915 ? |
| 26 | He was the British Admiral 's Cup team manager in 1987 and has been involved in AC campaigns since 1981 . |
| 27 | She was first elected branch representative in 1987 and has been Clonmel District Secretary since 1988 . |
| 28 | All the drawings were published in a magisterial catalogue by Peter Fuhring in 1987 and have been with Hazlitt for the last eighteen months . |
| 29 | Terry Carlin , Northern Ireland officer of the ICTU , said ‘ The ICTU first called for legislation to outlaw discrimination in employment in 1966 and had been actively involved ever since in the issue of promoting equality of opportunity . |
| 30 | Birth dates are not given on marriage certificates , only ages , and his mother 's was there as twenty-five , which meant she must have been born in 1926 and have been twenty-seven when he was born . |