Example sentences of "have be in [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Jamaican born bowler has been in superb form in the Cheltenham Festival … on Wednesday his bowling against Essex could swing the match . |
| 2 | She has been in private use in Scandinavia only , and is very well equipped . |
| 3 | Wilko said : ‘ David has been in tremendous form in the early games and we can only hope the trouble clears up by Saturday . ’ |
| 4 | A French-lexified Creole is , or has been in common use in several other territories as well — Trinidad , Grenada and St Vincent among them . |
| 5 | The third point which has come out in a number erm of comments , certainly from the C P R E is the issue of overshoots in the approved structure plan in respect to Greater York , and as we made clear in paragraph eight of our er erm position statement , we accept that there has been in numeric terms in the period eighty one to ninety two something like fifteen percent overshoot in terms of completions er in that period . |
| 6 | Although he had many substantial patrons , Evesham may have been in financial straits in the mid-1620s . |
| 7 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 8 | Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap . |
| 9 | There was a small desk , a lined pad , a tea mug holding a pencil and two pens , a stack of train and airline schedules , and a few pieces of personal clutter that could have been in any room in the house . |
| 10 | ‘ If she had done her job properly , I would never have been in this mess in the first place . ’ |
| 11 | Indeed , contrary to MAFF 's stubbornly held views that the LFA Directive can not be used to support conservation except as an ancillary to agricultural development , the then Minister of Agriculture , Mr Peter Walker , answered a question in the House on 10 December 1981 on how successful the LFA Directive had been in encouraging production in the UK . |
| 12 | ‘ He had every reason not to take me seriously as a soldier as he knew how idle I had been in prior days in Layforce . ’ |
| 13 | Gunpowder had been in widespread use in Europe in mining and quarrying since the early seventeenth century , but two hundred years later the techniques available for detonating the charges were still very primitive . |
| 14 | ‘ So many runners are depending on this race to qualify for the Olympics , especially the Portuguese , who have been in invincible form in half-marathons , and I would not be surprised if the winner is someone no one has heard of . ’ |
| 15 | The scholarship is open to those aged 21–30 with Wine and Spirit Higher Certificate or equivalent and who have been in full-time employment in the catering industry for at least two years or have experience of direct sales in on-licensed premises . |
| 16 | A version of it had been announced by Faber and Faber , as " Mr Eliot 's Book of Pollicle Dogs and Jellicle Cats as Recited to Him by the Man in White Spats " , in the spring of 1936 ; the blurb , written either by Frank Morley or by Eliot himself , explained that " several of the poems , illustrated by the author , have been in private circulation in the Publishers ' various families for a considerable time … " |
| 17 | Books by , and about , lesbians have been in comparative abundance in the last 5 years or so but it 's debatable whether this literary output has served as insular affirmations or taken lesbian sexuality a little further down the road of acceptance . |
| 18 | But his team had cohesion , some character , a little grit which have been in short supply in the present line-up . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , Mrs Hilali , who 's been in this resort in Turkey for most of this year , has now been charged by Turkish police with possessing hashish and pornographic videos , along with Philip Baker her adopted son . |