Example sentences of "have [be] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The local press in Dyfed have been in no doubt that the bank were to blame to ruining a business of the type desperately needed in the area .
2 ‘ Valerie and I have been in a relationship for five years now .
3 Irvine , California-based Western Digital Corp warns that earnings per share for the third quarter to March 27 will be ‘ significantly below ’ consensus analysts ' expectations which have been in a range of $0.20 to $0.26 a share , as a direct result of severe price declines in the 3.5″ hard disk drive business : the company says it does not see a significant decline in unit demand and that demand from its key OEM customers is getting stronger and says it is comfortable with revised analyst estimates , in the $0.05 to $0.10 per share range ; ‘ To the best of our ability we will not participate ’ in the price wars , it said .
4 It applies to all goods in the categories listed in the box , irrespective of the time they have been in a country .
5 And they have been in a position to determine the way they are investigated and the manner of their public exposure .
6 ‘ We rarely have been in a position where he has had the confidence to go for it , ’ said Gray .
7 This has been in part because the universities have a perfectly general responsibility for disseminating among schools up-to-date advances in knowledge and theoretical changes within disciplines , but also , more specifically , through the Local Examination Boards they have been in a position to determine the syllabuses for public examinations , and so to a large extent to dictate a curriculum even for those pupils at school who may never themselves enter the door of a university .
8 Thankfully the restorers have been in a position to obtain help from local industry and many items came cheaper than they had originally anticipated .
9 It is a common good defined by those who have been in a position to define it as such ( through their access to the processes that determine the nature of legal rules ) .
10 Where the petitioner is found not to be entitled to have presented a petition or wished to withdraw his petition or allow it to be dismissed or fails to attend on the hearing , the court may substitute as petitioner any creditor who has given notice of intention to appear , wishes to prosecute the petition and is a creditor who would at the date of presentation of the petition have been in a position himself to present a petition against the debtor ( ie is presently owed more than £750 ) ( r 6.30 ) .
11 You know they 're they 're not just basic idiots but they really do something erm which can be quite fraught , and er there 's no doubt everyone of you have been in a situation created by another road user .
12 All Blacks hero Grant Fox said : ‘ It 's not often I have been in a situation where I have had to kick a penalty to win the game .
13 I return haggardly , as though I have been in a street fight , grotty from rushing and weeping and random taxicabs .
14 Indeed , introduced as they have been in a climate of manpower cuts by an allegedly insensitive senior management , the main effects of these developments may be to produce ‘ not just disgruntled employees ’ but also ‘ ineffective organisation ’ ( Plowden , 1985 , p. 410 ) .
15 A great deal has been said and written , and food manufacturers have been in a hurry to extol the virtues of their food based on its fibre content .
16 The kids know that their parents have been in a car crash , of course .
17 but fifty seven of you out of sixty three car owners have been in an accident , is that , yes
18 ‘ It 's a heart-breaking decision for me to make , but I have been in the firing line of late with the suspensions and I have struggled with injuries all season , ’ said the Colchester manager .
19 I think I was then as near to hysteria as I have been in the whole of my life .
20 They have been in the squad several times before but have yet to get on the pitch , even for a couple of minutes .
21 Managing director Vincent Rey says , ‘ I have been in the tour operating business since 1965 , so my knowledge of both sides of the business is greater than that of many people running retail outlets . ’
22 They have been in the middle of war and think nothing of hearing shooting all round them .
23 Speaking at the opening of the event on a misty morning NSA Wales and Borders chairman Andrew Jones said : ‘ We as sheep farmers have been in the mist for some time , but lets hope that the outlook is much better and that there are better days to come . ’
24 When I have been in the Chamber , he has raised the matter regularly with Mr. Speaker .
25 And she added : ‘ There are not many girls who can say they have been in the ladies with their boyfriend . ’
26 A book with a title like this has to be full of choice bits of information that confirm what most of us who have been in the Services have always known — that high-ranking officers can do the daftest things .
27 To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what improvements there have been in the education provision in primary schools for children with special needs since 1979 .
28 Sapsan says its main customers have been in the defence industry .
29 The most common rates for building up a pension are 1/80th of earnings for each year you have been in the scheme , or l/60th .
30 So if you have been in the scheme all your life , you would have a half pension and a lump sum — which is tax free — of 1 ½ times your earnings .
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