Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pron] have [been] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well before 1330 the Angevin Empire had ceased to be the dynamic and significant political force that it had been in the mid and late twelfth century . |
| 2 | Child support will therefore not necessarily be any more reliable or regular in the future than it has been in the past . |
| 3 | For example , one Lambodar Gorain has been held in Ranchi Jail since 18th June 1970 , for an offence under Section 25 of the Arms Act … with the result that he has been in prison for eight and a half years for an offence for which even if convicted , he could not have been awarded more than two years imprisonment … . |
| 4 | By 1986 there were three times the number of places in private homes than there had been in 1979 . |
| 5 | During the fifteen months that he had been in prison his black hair had turned grey and his features had lost their definition . |
| 6 | His name was Roberto Coloni and he had been in hospital following a bad fall in which he had broken his shoulder blade , forearm and two ribs , as well as suffering bad concussion , which had affected his hearing . |
| 7 | ‘ Valerie and I have been in a relationship for five years now . |
| 8 | Carson Buchanan , Alf Jacobson and I had been in charge of the arrangements and a liberal supply of liquid refreshment was on hand to demonstrate our hospitality as ‘ The Friendly City ’ . |
| 9 | In the past six months while they 've been in prison doctors have been battling to save thir victim 's eyes . |
| 10 | I 'd put on weight while I 'd been in bed , and the zip on my slacks would n't do up more than half-way . |
| 11 | In the autumn of 1955 , some six months after he had been in Berlin , Blake approached his superiors with the suggestion that he should pretend to become an agent working for the Russians . |
| 12 | A thorough overhaul of the educational process will ensure that standards remain as high in the future as they have been in the past . |
| 13 | Auguste broke off , none too pleased to be interrupted on a mere matter of murder when he had been in a world of his own , exalted by the power of cuisine . |
| 14 | According to one report , Vincent was as dismissive of academic study as he had been in Amsterdam . |
| 15 | But on 30 October the regents once more affirmed the rights of the Crown : they ordered Hugh de Neville , the Chief Justice of the Forest , to cause the royal forests to be kept by the same metes and bounds as they had been in the time of King John before the war between him and his barons . |
| 16 | It is probable that plague remained a constant threat , even if it is less well recorded in contemporary writings than at an earlier date ; probably men were more inured to its presence than they had been in the first shock of 1348 . |
| 17 | Social and economic change and political and industrial movements had by the end of the century made ‘ the social question , a more central political and intellectual issue than it had been in 1870 . |
| 18 | But in practice the intrusion of the laity into government service made it rather less like a twentieth-century bureaucracy than it had been in the later middle ages . |
| 19 | I understand from Simon that you had been in touch regarding your proposal . |
| 20 | Captain Allan Border said : ‘ Obviously I feel a bit sorry for Jonesy because he 's been in the side for a long time . |
| 21 | erm there are a lot of social needs that remain unmet , and meeting those needs would generate more employment , but in many areas of the economy I do n't think there 's so much need for work as there has been in the past , especially as we 're applying new technologies that increase productivity dramatically . |
| 22 | In other words not to provide for a continuing level of migration as it has been in the past . |
| 23 | Unfortunately has been unable to edit this issue as she has been in Charing Cross Hospital for treatment after her mole pregnancy earlier this year . |
| 24 | Apart from this , the Emperor was afraid that if the Duke de Montpensier , who was married to Isabella 's sister , became King there would be a civil war in Spain as there had been in 1830 , when ‘ a sister had dethroned a sister ’ . |
| 25 | When one turns to his large-scale tonal designs , unexplored until now , it becomes apparent that Lully 's influence is as preponderant in Campra 's cantatas as it had been in his stage music . |
| 26 | He was just as fussy on the North Shore as he had been in France . |
| 27 | The way we see it , they both did a runner and they 've been in hiding ever since . ’ |
| 28 | I said , I said I 'm sorry you know Helena you stupid cow if you had been in here , accusing me as usual I said she goes cough up now . |
| 29 | Youth Enterprise Scheme helps young people aged 25 and under who wish to start up a business or who have been in business and now wish to expand . |
| 30 | I mean th th th the clan links in the south were much stronger than they were in the north , and therefore there might be even greater commercial landlord opposition to land reform than there had been in the north . |