Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] been in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A person who has the right to immediate possession of the land and enters in exercise of that right , is then deemed to have been in possession ever since the accrual of the right of entry . |
| 2 | These were all advantages accruing to the defendants which can fairly be said to have been in consideration of their undertaking to pay the additional £10,300 . |
| 3 | Gunpowder is said to have been in use in certain Continental mines early in the 17th Century . |
| 4 | Their initiative was thought to have been in response to an open letter published on Jan. 15 under the signatures of three former Presidents , the Archbishop of Bogotá , and the leader of the left-wing Patriotic Union Party ( UP ) , which had offered them the prospect of " society 's support … for less rigorous treatment " by the government if they released the estimated dozens of hostages they had seized over the previous two months and stopped drug trafficking . |
| 5 | The arrests were thought to have been in connection with the discovery of 35 kg of semtex , the explosive used in the IRA London bombs . |
| 6 | Indeed , of the books of the Old Testament so far found to have been in use among the Qumran sect , with the exception of Isaiah and the Psalms , most are copies of Deuteronomy . |
| 7 | A member of the Institute having been found to have been in breach of Bye-law 76(c) in force at the material time and liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( iv ) in that he between 1 January 1985 and 30 March 1992 engaged in public practice contrary to Bye-law 59 when he did not hold a current practising certificate was reprimanded , fined £500 and ordered to pay £500 by way of costs . |
| 8 | The statue is known to have been in Florence from the sixteenth century onwards and is documented as being in the Uffizi from 1676 , but was always thought to have been a copy of a Greek original . |
| 9 | He is known to have been in receipt of pensions from at least three institutional clients ( the abbeys of Glastonbury and Ramsey and the priory of Durham ) and probably received similar pensions from many other individuals and institutions . |
| 10 | It was bought by Baron Meyer de Rothschild for Mentmore before 1860 , and is known to have been in Palazzo Manfrini , Venice , by the 1850s . |
| 11 | The twelve zodiacal signs , of equal lengths of thirty parts each , are known to have been in use from soon after 500 BC . |
| 12 | Still others are named , are known to have been in circulation , but have never been seen . |
| 13 | There was serious foreign interest in Esselte 's publishing division when it was first put on the market early in 1990 , and Hachette is known to have been in negotiation before an agreement with Liber was finally concluded . |
| 14 | Once again , Arthurian legend underlay the idea of the Order , but the adoption of the garter as its symbol was said in later years to have occurred when , at a ball at Calais in 1348 , the Countess of Salisbury dropped her garter and the king , who was rumoured to have been in love with her , picked it up and in the face of derisive cries from the onlookers put it on his own knee with the remark , ‘ Honi soit qui mal y pense ’ — shame upon him who thinks ill of it . |
| 15 | They would have planned to have won only about half the amount of possession that they did actually get and still hoped to have been in front . |
| 16 | The attack was believed to have been in revenge for the killing by government militia of several Moslem farmers worshipping in a mosque in the neighbouring town of Pikit . |
| 17 | A million copies are estimated to have been in circulation by 1524 . |
| 18 | He was n't sure which of them was meant to have been in school uniform . |
| 19 | In later proceedings , " The Independent " and several other newspapers were held to have been in contempt of the court which had made the order against " The Guardian " and were fined , notwithstanding that by this time the Government had lost its original action against " The Guardian . " |