Example sentences of "[adv] been in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed for seven years to John Braithwaite [ q.v. ] , an eminent locomotive and railway engineer , and while in his service he invented in 1837 the detonating railway fog-signal which was first tried on the Croydon line and has ever since been in universal use as a very valuable safety measure . |
| 2 | Brittany had long since been in some way subject to Normandy . |
| 3 | What she has achieved is remarkable given she is still very young and has only been in this business a couple of years . |
| 4 | I also think he had been slightly influenced by Father D'Arcy , with whom lie had apparently been in recent touch . |
| 5 | I got on the vehicle but the driver had not long been in fourth gear when I came to my senses . |
| 6 | Are you implying that it 's not very long been in this country ? |
| 7 | The principles of variation ornamentation , thematic reshaping , and so on — had long been in common use . |
| 8 | The OEO Agent had obviously been in continuous pain by the end of their long , slow hike , and Bernice was able to boost the feed of chemicals provided by Defries 's combat suit . |
| 9 | Most of our advertisers have already been in some form of advertising before . |
| 10 | as if she had just been in actual combat she dropped down on to the couch and sat gasping , drawing in long , shuddering breaths . |
| 11 | Much of the activity on the Tyne Tunnel Estate has always been in small warehousing and distribution depots but the two large manufacturing employers are Cape Insulation and Twinings Teas ( a subsidiary of Associated British Foods ) . |
| 12 | However , money for adult education in general has always been in short supply — as the 1973 Russell Report pointed out , only just over 1 per cent of LEA expenditure was devoted to it — and art education is no exception to the general rule . |
| 13 | A doctor was out of the question , Isabel would never see doctors , had always been in rude health , had not , indeed , wanted to call the doctor to Faith , until her colour had changed and , by her breathing , they had known that the illness was grave . |
| 14 | In socialist France , it is now higher than it has ever been in that country 's history . |
| 15 | In socialist France , unemployment is now higher than it has ever been in that country 's history . |
| 16 | Have you ever been in that place ? |
| 17 | ‘ Ask him , ’ I said , ‘ if Sheridan Lorrimore has ever been in any trouble that he knows of , apart from assaulting an actor at Toronto , that should have resulted in Sheridan going to jail . ’ |
| 18 | First , safety expenditure under the Government and British Rail is higher than it has ever been in British Rail 's history — it has gone up from £140 million to £200 million . |
| 19 | Taxes are higher than they have ever been in this country 's history , and the burden falls disproportionately heavily on lower-income families . |
| 20 | They had hardly ever been in this house belonging to Nicholas , and never since it received its new mistress . |
| 21 | The personnel to run literacy and adult education programmes have also been in short supply . |
| 22 | This account has so far been in partial equilibrium terms . |
| 23 | I 've now been in this game for about eighteen years and I suppose thirteen of them I did n't have two beans to rub together . |
| 24 | In a fabliau called La Saineresse , " The female blood-letter " , for instance , the deceptive actions performed by the deceiving character are actions entirely of speech , as a wife who has had sexual intercourse with a man her dull-witted husband believes to be a female blood-letter describes her act of illicit fornication to her duped and satisfied husband entirely in metaphors : ( Sir , thank you by the love of God , I have indeed been in hard labour . |
| 25 | But Ximena was seized with such fear as if her heart would have broken ; she and her daughters had never been in such fear since the day that they were born . |
| 26 | ‘ I have never been in rural ministry , ’ Daniel said . |
| 27 | Mind you , he 'd never been in good health , not since they sent him home from France . ’ |
| 28 | Unfortunately , with a marginally less successful Cup than League record , Athletico have never been in that position . |
| 29 | ‘ They have never been in that position before some of them are classic cases of Thatcher 's children . |
| 30 | As investigators from the Mines Inspectorate , British Coal and unions began their inquiries into the accident , the company disclosed that the trapped men had never been in serious danger . |