Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [prep] office " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The British people will say to themselves : ‘ Well here 's a government that 's got a majority of 100 , they 've been in office for 10 years , they 've had all these opportunities , and at the end of 10 years all they can think of to do is to make individual attacks on the Leader of the Opposition . ’ |
2 | You 've been in office for four months . |
3 | It will mainly be because they have been in office a long time , and because of the recession . |
4 | The hon. Gentleman will recall that since we have been in office , there has been an increase in the strength of the Cumbrian police of 110 uniformed officers and 144 civilians , making a total increase of 254 . |
5 | I assure the hon. Gentleman that since we have been in office we have increased expenditure for the Cumbrian police authority by 80 per cent . |
6 | I remind the hon. Gentleman that since we have been in office there has been an increase of 693 officers in Northumbria 's police strength . |
7 | Is the Prime Minister proud of the fact that since the Government came into office in 1979 nearly 2.5 million full-time jobs in manufacturing have been lost , 34 jobs for every hour this wretched Government have been in office ? |
8 | Does he appreciate that for every single day that he and his right hon. Friend have been in office in Whitehall place , we have similarly lost 25 farm workers and 14 farmers ? |
9 | Neither of those points is true after the years in which we have been in office . |
10 | Therefore , far from Government support having been reduced during the period that the Government have been in office , there has been an increase in real terms of 9.6 per cent . |
11 | Surely a Government 's job is to address the overall rise in crime that has taken place while they have been in office , and also to deal with this new phenomenon — the amazing increase in youth crime . |
12 | I was about to remind the hon. Gentleman that the present Government have been in office for the past 13 years and therefore must accept a great deal of responsibility . |