Example sentences of "[Wh det] has been in " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Antiguan Labour Party , which has been in power since 1976 , won 15 of the 17 seats in the lower chamber in the general election of 1989 . |
| 32 | The broadening of aims and objectives has not been a sudden panic measure to the market forces of the 1990s but has been part of a professional and careful reassessment which has been in progress since at least the late 1960s . |
| 33 | Coupled to that the er , sort of the statutory protection which has been in existence for er , workers for many years in some cases is , is being whittled away . |
| 34 | The development will be on land which has been in constant industrial use since 1758 and was , until recently , a steel works . |
| 35 | Y you 'll see amongst the plans that you 've , you 've got before you , plan number seven actually , should n't really be with these papers because it 's not a proposal for approval , but it does show the extent of the work that 's been done and the key element there is that there are these speed cushions I mentioned earlier on as a possible way forward there , which has been in consultation . |
| 36 | A furniture shop which has been in business for more than a century is closing down . |
| 37 | The plane looks almost identical to the old Hercules which has been in service for over a quarter of a century . |
| 38 | ‘ But when you look at the legislation , which has been in many ways draconian for the situation which exists today , you have great difficulty in saying who is and who is not under the age of 16 . |
| 39 | For British readers , the first model — which has been in the political , if not the economic , ascendancy for the past decade and more — is the more familiar . |
| 40 | The dissidents who resigned from his ‘ cabinet ’ look ominously like a vanguard of the fundamentalist persuasion which has been in some abeyance since the defeat of Jim Sillars . |
| 41 | The appointment is an honorary title which has been in force since 1681 . |
| 42 | Union competition for membership reflects the relatively unstable condition of union organization in Spain , which has been in a state of flux and development since the restoration of trade union rights . |
| 43 | The wild card in the race , Ross Perot , sent out word that he had no regrets about his longshot bid for the White House , which has been in Republican hands for 12 years . |
| 44 | There 's the El Niño Current , which has been in the news through the summer , off the coast of South America . |
| 45 | Surprisingly though , even in what has been in recent years the most buoyant sector of oil product demand — petrol — there is likely to be a gradual lowering of demand despite increased usage of cars . |
| 46 | But most of it 's an attack by our own union against what has been in the past the most active members of this union . |
| 47 | ( Referring to whatever we have been discussing : hooliganism ; child abuse ; industrial unrest ; pollution — whatever has been in the news … ) |