Example sentences of "been [adv] [prep] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The T-55s , at least , would not have been much in evidence in their previous table-top forays against the Red Army . |
| 2 | The S-word , socialism , may not have been much in evidence in Labour 's manifesto or campaign , but it infests every line of their real agenda . |
| 3 | One of its themes will have to be the confusion in our morality that the epidemic has exposed , and this has been much in evidence in the past few days in response to the ludicrous concert in commemoration of Freddie Mercury , and then the renewal of the controversial theory that Aids may not be linked to HIV at all , but instead , to cite one example , to promiscuous sexual activity that reputedly attacks the immune system . |
| 4 | Catering that had been so under threat in the later seventies suddenly attracted new importance ; indeed , the single Manchester Pullman that looked almost certain to be a casualty of further standardisation in the eighties was joined by a bevy of Pullmans if only Pullman service on HSTs and Mark 3s . |
| 5 | By s. 3 of the 1986 Act the court may make a disqualification order where it appears that the person has been persistently in default in delivering returns , accounts or other documents to the Registrar of Companies . |
| 6 | He might have been more at home in some of the radical Protestant sects that began to appear in England and — later — in America during the seventeenth century . |
| 7 | But it is n't true to say I 'd certainly say it is n't true to say that making the recommendations of our market have been slightly up recommendation in takings . |
| 8 | I should have been back at school in Nigeria . |
| 9 | For many this was the first time they 'd been back to Parham in thirty six years . |
| 10 | He had n't been back to Beirut in four years . |
| 11 | He returned for his father 's funeral , the first time he 'd been back to Zimbala in seventeen years , and Jamel was able to persuade him to stay on as the new editor of the country 's leading daily newspaper , La Voix . |
| 12 | I could have been back on Hermaness in Shetland . |
| 13 | In mid-Cornwall , for example , over a third of the male population has been out of work in recent years . |
| 14 | On stage , however , corseted and hypertense , sounds would emerge which would not have been out of place in the nest of a fledgeling sedge-warbler . |
| 15 | He now has two gardeners working full time : Dennis , a grand old boy who has scarcely been out of Gloucestershire in his life — and has been looking after foxhounds for the Duke of Beaufort for most of it ; and Trevor Jacobs , a younger and professionally qualified horticulturist . |
| 16 | Terrorism , from whatever source , is the enemy of democracy and its evil forces have been out in strength in recent days . |
| 17 | Eleanor Bell ( d.1827 ) has a scarlet velvet upholstered elm case which , with its cherub grip-plates , might have been equally at home in the 1720s were it not for the idiosyncratic decoration of the lid . |
| 18 | The Roman Emperor Antonine , while he would have looked in vain for the wall he built across Scotland 2,000 years before , would have been quite at home in the vast amphitheatre of Celtic Park . |
| 19 | He would have been quite at home in those Trafalgar square riots . |
| 20 | He seeks consistently to mislead the people of Scotland about the reality of what he and his Government have been about in Scotland in the past 12 to13 years . |
| 21 | Ever since Kevin Costner delighted impressionable audiences with Dances With Wolves , feathers , beads and tepees have been unusually in demand in Tinseltown . |
| 22 | He had n't counted on the opposition of Hugh de Tracy 's priestly brother , who should have been safely at home in his monastery , where he could n't cause any trouble . |
| 23 | The ‘ transition team ’ has been quietly at work in Little Rock , capital of Clinton 's home state Arkansas , mulling policy and future appointments . |