Example sentences of "been [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 So relaxed now ; yet only a short while ago he had been in the depths of despair .
32 As last season illustrated , Neath were nowhere near as good as their Champion status indicated , nowhere near as good as they had been in the seasons of extraordinary success that preceded the advent of the leagues .
33 The local parish council has often been in the hands of a group leading the area into decline .
34 British air travel before the war had largely been in the hands of two companies , British Airways for European services and Imperial Airways for services further afield .
35 Whereas nuclear weaponry had effectively only been in the hands of the U.S.A. , the development of such weapons by other nations had been increasing , so at a meeting , in December 1962 , at Nassau , Prime minister Harold Macmillan and President Kennedy , hammered out an agreement whereby Britain abandoned its plans for ‘ Skybolt ’ in return for the U.S.A. ‘ Polaris ’ missile for use by British nuclear submarines .
36 It had earlier been in the hands of the Beard family for around a century .
37 For some time financial control had been in the hands of a receiver after the Leeds City company was wound up .
38 The training of the vernacular clergy had been in the hands of Arthur Dilworth , the first time that a missionary had been completely set aside for this important task .
39 The troubled 1986 ICL start-up housing the Distributed Array Processing , DAP , technology — built on the single instruction multiple data technique of massively parallel processing — has been in the hands of the receiver , Price Waterhouse , since June 16 .
40 The company , which has been in the hands of receivers since February , faces the prospect of its production lines halting after a judge refused to rule that a crucial supplier , to whom it owes large sums of money , was legally obliged to continue providing vital components .
41 The unique collection , assembled over the past twenty-five years by Lavalin 's ex-chief Bernard Lamarre and corporate curator Leo Rosshandler , has been in the hands of an international consortium of eight creditor banks since Lavalin 's failure last year .
42 It has been in the hands of the Maitland family for more than 400 years since its creation by John Maitland , Chancellor of Scotland , and later enlargement by the Duke of Lauderdale .
43 The famous Plitvice Lakes — a national reserve and a UNESCO World Heritage Site — have been in the hands of terrorists for more than a year .
44 But one of these , the Manas ( ‘ by far the most important wildlife reserve in the Indian subcontinent ’ — IUCN Pig and Peccaries Specialist Group ) , has for several years been in the hands of armed rebels .
45 When Piri Pasa put the idea to Selim , however , the latter refused , taking the view that it would be wrong to interfere in the affairs of the two cities , which enjoyed a special standing in the Islamic world and the governing of which had always been in the hands of descendents of the Prophet .
46 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 ?
47 Secondly , the royal corpse was mangled ; it had been in the hands of embalmers and above ground for four years .
48 The Garlands , and their shop with the rooms over , were out of period , relics of a time when the business and management of the town had been in the hands of a few prosperous traders .
49 Previously , the decision was to have been in the hands of the state nuclear agency , the CEA .
50 He set up an organisation there to try to help those who 'd been in the hands of the Moonies .
51 Scotland has been in the doldrums of international competition for years , only able to raise its game in occasional moments of glorious defeat as in the last European Championship .
52 Saatchi has been in the doldrums since late 1987 .
53 The mortgage market has been in the doldrums for three years and lending is shrinking steadily , partly because there is only a trickle of new customers and partly because existing customers are paying off at least part of their mortgages when they can .
54 The market has been in the doldrums in the wake of the suppression of the pro-democracy movement in China this summer and a decision by an arm of the Chinese Government to make an investment of the size being planned by CITIC is likely to have a considerable impact .
55 Three families in Ayrshire , for instance , who had eight children taken away in a raid in June 1990 ; little was heard of their situation until after the Orkney case had been in the headlines for some time .
56 Whatever may have been in the minds of right-wing conspirators and left-wing militants during the ‘ ominous spring ’ of 1936 , it was certainly not a prolonged civil war .
57 It must have been in the minds of the members of the Rushcliffe Committee as they took evidence .
58 And then , after I 've been in the workshops about a month , a foreman , a foreman of Signals came and they said oh we can get you regraded , you have to go to the Ordnance see , had to go to the Ordnance get reclassified .
59 Living amongst the Indonesians , where the pursuit of wisdom virtually amounts to a national pastime , the elements of Earth , Air , Fire , Water and Ether became real for me in a way they had never been in the writings of the Gnostics or the Pythagoreans .
60 Generally , these bespoke applications have been in the fields of industrial and professional training and in retail promotion such as point-of-sale and point-of-information systems .
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