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 . |