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

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1 ‘ 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 .
2 I think I was then as near to hysteria as I have been in the whole of my life .
3 They have been in the squad several times before but have yet to get on the pitch , even for a couple of minutes .
4 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 . ’
5 They have been in the middle of war and think nothing of hearing shooting all round them .
6 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 . ’
7 When I have been in the Chamber , he has raised the matter regularly with Mr. Speaker .
8 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 .
9 Sapsan says its main customers have been in the defence industry .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Those that are now appearing have been in the pipeline for at least two years , having been commissioned before the recession hit the publishing industry .
13 However the 1988 Act took away this right of appeal from everyone , except those who have been in the country for more than seven years .
14 Yes , the cases quoted are clear ones , in which carers have been in the home for a long time , but obviously we would wish to avoid a position in which the carer was in the home for a short time in the expectation that he or she would then be allowed to stay there .
15 Most of the recently created jobs have been in the service industry and the retail sector , many of them positions which attract part-time and female staff .
16 By an extraordinary coincidence all four have been in the recording studio recently , and have sent in their labours for critical appreciation .
17 Less than 5 per cent of the Ansett and Australian Airlines fleets have been in the air , using management pilots in a skeleton service supplemented by Royal Australian Air Force planes and overseas airlines .
18 Although there is actually little that is novel in ‘ sociobiology ’ , for the key elements have been in the air since the writings of Sir Ronald Fisher and J. B. S. Haldane , the extensive if not exhaustive application of population genetics to social evolution means that the relevance of evolutionary biology in the social sciences can no longer be ignored .
19 For example , if they have been in the Chaos terrains of locations 60–63 and a Dwarf character fell into the Nurglesque marshes , one puppet will enact this while another ( preferably an Elf Puppet , to antagonize the Dwarf adventurer ) conducts a running commentary : ‘ Oh look , boys and girls , the stunty 's fallen down .
20 You know , I , I have been put in that situation before , when I 've actually seen , you know , and most reporters are working secondhand , but , you know , I have been in the position where I 've actually seen , part of a police operation take place , mainly because I 'd got stopped coming out on the Huntingdon Road after the , the Mill Road Post Office was , was knocked over a year or so ago .
21 Our two Central South first division sides have been in the transfer market today .
22 Football , and after just one game in the premier league Swindon Town have been in the transfer market to sign Wolves striker Andy Mutch …
23 Since most of them have been in the army of the Lord for many years , church members will no doubt want to give up their best rooms for these dear people .
24 I have been in the company forty years .
25 There have been substantial population losses in the more industrialized and urbanized regions , including the South East , North and North West , while the largest gains have been in the South West , East Anglia and the East Midlands .
26 have been in the Member class , normally 5 years
27 What they have been in the past , in the face of their grim working lives , is resilient .
28 You know what my reasons have been in the past : I just do n't want to provoke interest in myself .
29 Both the American and British governments are cloaking these new operations in a shroud of secrecy though it is unlikely any politician has the slightest idea what the two agencies are planning to do or that they even care if laws are broken as they have been in the past .
30 Homosexuality between consenting adults aged 21 or over , and abortion during a certain period of pregnancy , are not criminal offences at present , although they have been in the past .
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