Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [be] in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What she has achieved is remarkable given she is still very young and has only been in this business a couple of years . |
| 2 | I have explained to the hon. Gentleman why the funding for the Housing Executive is not as easy this year as it has perhaps been in former years . |
| 3 | All mechanical parts seem in very good order and the vehicle has not been in any accidents . |
| 4 | In socialist France , it is now higher than it has ever been in that country 's history . |
| 5 | In socialist France , unemployment is now higher than it has ever been in that country 's history . |
| 6 | ‘ Ask him , ’ I said , ‘ if Sheridan Lorrimore has ever been in any trouble that he knows of , apart from assaulting an actor at Toronto , that should have resulted in Sheridan going to jail . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ That last has never been in any doubt . |
| 8 | I 'd never been in this room before . |
| 9 | The sense of national community is not helped by exhortations to cheer for England in Test Matches and the implication that those who do not are in some sense not good British citizens , and yet this sort of crude and simplistic interpretation of the obligations of citizenship was heard from some politicians in 1990 . |
| 10 | She had not been in that position . |
| 11 | ‘ Why , my lord , when we were left alone — and I think if they had not been in such haste to move on they would not have left a man of us alive to tell the tale — we first tended the worst hurt , and took counsel , and decided we must take the news on to Ramsey , and also back here to Shrewsbury . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've not been in this part of the forest . |
| 13 | Yet , all in all , farming and the farm remained visibly what they had always been in most parts of the world : more prosperous in the developed areas , and hence investing more heavily in improvements , buildings , etc. , more businesslike in many places , but not transformed out of recognition . |
| 14 | I 've now been in this game for about eighteen years and I suppose thirteen of them I did n't have two beans to rub together . |
| 15 | If I had n't been in that bar at that time , perhaps all this would have happened to somebody else . |
| 16 | The demolition workers had n't been in that day . |
| 17 | I asked Miss Lofthouse if she 'd seen you and she said you had n't been in this afternoon . ’ |
| 18 | In spite of himself Joe was impressed by the earnestness in Chris 's voice and said less forcefully , ‘ I know it 's easy for me to talk , I 've never been in this situation , but what 's going to happen ? |
| 19 | I 've never been in any factory in my life , working nights , I have been in many , but I 've never found my fellow men very sociable on the night shift . |
| 20 | But Ximena was seized with such fear as if her heart would have broken ; she and her daughters had never been in such fear since the day that they were born . |
| 21 | Findings from the present study suggest that once people had become established in the homes their quality of life , in the opinion of their relatives , was similar to that of other people who died and had never been in such homes . |
| 22 | Both brothers had never been in any kind of trouble before . |
| 23 | I walked to Coruisk from Sligachan and on to Camusunary and Kilmarie with a young American friend who had never been in this part of Scotland before . |
| 24 | Most of our advertisers have already been in some form of advertising before . |
| 25 | Taxes are higher than they have ever been in this country 's history , and the burden falls disproportionately heavily on lower-income families . |
| 26 | Accidental fires do happen when the Peak is very dry but we have n't been in that situation yet . |
| 27 | He added : ‘ Obviously it 's a great thrill to be top of the table with Rangers because I have n't been in this position before . |
| 28 | ‘ I have n't been in this church for years . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ You have n't been in this neck of the woods for years , and I doubt if in all her life she 's been further than Blackpool . ’ |
| 30 | But yeah , it 's alright , it 's okay but not a lot 's going on , really , I have n't been in any activities for ages . |