Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] been in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hardy , naturally polled breed of a type which has been in southwest Scotland for centuries , the Galloway is capable of growing a thick , shaggy coat of long , rain-shedding hairs over its thick , soft , mossy undercoat to protect itself in the cold , damp climate of the region . |
| 2 | The plane looks almost identical to the old Hercules which has been in service for over a quarter of a century . |
| 3 | Only the skylit fifth floor opens permanently on 19 February with an expanded sampling of the museum 's contemporary collection , much of which has been in storage for years , and with a long-term installation of a promised gift of twenty-seven works by American abstract artist Leon Polk Smith ( b. 1906 ) . |
| 4 | Also joining IHM is the one-off prototype Westland 30–300 G–HAUL , which has been in storage at Westland 's Yeovil factory since the Ministry of Defence cancelled it in favour of the larger EH–101 . |
| 5 | which has been in darkness . |
| 6 | Of particular interest here is the work of the Financial Information Project which has been in existence since 1979 . |
| 7 | That there is a conventional element in the distinction is shown by the fact that procedures expressed as programs can also be expressed by the hardware structure of machines : the principal programming language of AI is LISP , which has been in existence for about twenty years , but only recently has a ‘ hard-wired ’ LISP-machine been built , one in which the LISP programs are more straight forwardly isomorphic with the operations of the hardware . |
| 8 | Sometimes the object of the panic is quite novel and at other times it is something which has been in existence long enough , but suddenly appears in the limelight . |
| 9 | The Village Trust is a respected body which has been in existence for many years . |
| 10 | I believe that the figures that the hon. Lady gave earlier were for regional development grant rather than for regional selective assistance , which has been in existence for only about three years , as she will recall . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This critique underlies much of the ‘ Great Debate ’ which has been in progress since the Ruskin speech of 1976 and which can be seen to have result ed in the 1986 and 1988 Education Acts . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Essentially this document brings a process which has been in operation since 1980 into line with the accreditation agreement with the Council . |
| 15 | BP and Conoco each have a 50 per cent share in Viking which has been in production since 1972 and all the gas was sold to British Gas for a fairly low price in present terms . |
| 16 | A furniture shop which has been in business for more than a century is closing down . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is part of a move to clear a growing backlog of radioactive waste , some of which has been in store for 25 years . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Giving in ’ to prevent ‘ giving more ’ , which has been in reality the basis of much of British diplomacy in Europe , will need to be replaced by a position which says , ‘ Above the line anything goes ; below it we walk away . ’ |
| 21 | X/Open , which has been in negotiations with OSF for over a year now , was supposed to have incorporated DCE into its Common Applications Environment some time ago : that announcement is also on ice until the two can work something out . |
| 22 | Geometry is a part of the mathematics syllabus which has been in decline in recent years . |
| 23 | The Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) , which has been in office since its formation in 1955 , was returned to power in the general election of July 1986 . |
| 24 | The appointment is an honorary title which has been in force since 1681 . |
| 25 | Supt Tony Rozier said the building , which has been in use for more than 20 years , had suffered a string of attacks by vandals and thieves , contributing to its demise . |
| 26 | This will replace the complex three-tier system which has been in use in recent years and involved graded brackets ranging from 12.5% on sales up to FFr15,000 down to 2.4% on those over FFr300,000 . |
| 27 | The kidnap poses a severe test for the infant government of the Prime Minister , Mr Vishwanath Pratap Singh , which has been in power only nine days . |
| 28 | He is speaking for a Government which has been in power so long that it believes it has a God-given right to govern and denies anyone the right to criticise . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The House approved cases the authority of which had been in doubt . |