Example sentences of "been in [noun prp] since " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canada 's Norm Hadley and Glenn Ennis , widely recognised as two of the outstanding forwards during the ‘ 91 World Cup campaign , have been in Japan since late last year and are now looking ahead to the new season . |
| 2 | For every Palestinian who expressed doubts about the worth of returning , there were hundreds who would go back to what is now Israel if they had the opportunity to do so , people like David Damiani , a Christian whose family had been in Palestine since the time of the Crusades . |
| 3 | Jackson had been in Singapore since Saturday , giving two concerts and enjoying a final day of relaxation that included a visit to the zoo and a meeting in his hotel with six orang-utans . |
| 4 | Police said had been in Germany since last September and was being considered for asylum . |
| 5 | The breed has been in Britain since the eleventh century , when by William of Orange reputedly owner the first . |
| 6 | I have been in London since February . ’ |
| 7 | Bolz , who has been in Cologne since 1986 , specialises in drawing and painting by young artists , among them Ernst Caramelle , V.A . |
| 8 | So you 've only been in Harlow since nineteen sixty three ? |
| 9 | The England coach , who is also assistant to Ian McGeechan on the Lions tour to New Zealand this summer , and who has been in Scotland since last Thursday , admitted yesterday that the Scots ' performance against Wales ‘ had been very impressive and must have surprised quite a few people , especially down south ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ It will certainly be a big change from Hoylake but we know the area well and we have friends there , ’ said Mr Williams , 53 , who has been in Hoylake since 1986 . |
| 11 | ‘ It will certainly be a big change from Hoylake but we know the area well and we have friends there , ’ said Rev Williams , 53 , who has been in Hoylake since 1986 . |
| 12 | Down , Leonard has been in Newry since 1983 . |
| 13 | These had been in Rome since at least the end of the sixteenth century . |
| 14 | It is nonetheless likely that an export licence will be denied , to give a British institution the chance of raising the necessary matching funds to purchase the picture , as the Cook panel has been in England since 1863 ( in the Cook family since 1868 ) and as Messrs MacGregor and Rosenberg ( Director of the National Gallery and Curator of Paintings at the Louvre , respectively ) would agree , one can not have too many Antonellos . |
| 15 | An alternative to thinking that Harald had been in England since 1016 , and returned to Denmark with part of a disbanded fleet in 1018 , might be that he had in the interval been expelled from it , and sailed with the fleet in 1018 in an attempt to regain control . |
| 16 | Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche has been in England since 1975 and most ordained people take either Kelsang or Gyatso in their names . |
| 17 | Of the five painters who had signed the manifesto only Severini , who had been in Paris since 1905 , had any claim to be considered avant-garde , whereas the others were mostly working in a debased divisionist technique and relied for novelty on the rather obvious imagery of their subject-matter . |
| 18 | The Brigade has been in Normandy since the 6th June in constant contact with the enemy until we reached the Seine . |
| 19 | In spite of the fact that the Carews had been in Ireland since the middle of the seventeenth century , he still regarded himself as an expatriate living among a semi-barbarous people in a semi-barbarous land . |
| 20 | ‘ Mother 's been in Ireland since her first marriage . |
| 21 | The British Ambassador , Anthony Parsons , a man whose heavy spectacles gave him an amiable academic appearance , was an Arabist who had been in Iran since 1974 . |
| 22 | Jimmy Moon is an independent builder and repairer whose workshops have been in Glasgow since 1985 and before that on the Isle of Arran , off the West coast of Scotland . |
| 23 | And why not ? — the British Army had been in Osnabrück since 1945 . |
| 24 | The only paragraphs in Section 2 which does allow any exemption for individuals is that concerning emigres who " although of Russian blood " had " not been in USSR since 1930 " prior to their " joining the German forces " . |
| 25 | She 's been in Malta since February 1968 when she was impounded by the Airport Authorities whilst wearing the spurious registration 5T-TAF and carrying a cargo of aircraft tyres with the suspected destination of Biafra . |
| 26 | The business has been in Middlesborugh since 1936 . |