Example sentences of "have [been] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As noted earlier , most of the newly created jobs in the service sector are occupied by women on a part-time basis , whereas most of the labour expelled from manufacturing has been in full-time jobs occupied by men . |
| 2 | All that might have made Mr Kohl even more overbearing than he has been in recent weeks , to the dismay of West Germany 's allies and neighbours . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There has been in recent years a steady increase in the number of courses in ‘ bilingual training for business people ’ . |
| 5 | That came as no surprise to us , as we know how good the business climate in this country has been in recent years with the success of deregulation and low taxation and the attractiveness of Britain as a home of inward investment . |
| 6 | One of the dangers of the current climate for admission , which makes it more difficult than it has been in recent years for students to get into universities , is that the concentration is on the techniques of application , rather than on what lies behind the mechanical process . |
| 7 | March has been in financial difficulties for some time and does n't have a sponsor for this season . |
| 8 | The fastest growth has been in other kinds of paper , and particularly paper packaging , which now takes up 19% of the space in landfills . |
| 9 | An employee needs to show that he has been in two years continuous employment . |
| 10 | Much of the recent growth in service sector employment has been in private services . |
| 11 | Jon Scargill 's five-year-old has been in good spirits this year , finishing fourth to Night Clubbing on his reappearance at Newbury and then chasing home the well handicapped Azhar at Doncaster . |
| 12 | In stressing this aspect , Marx and Engles were basing themselves in great part on the excellent description that Morgan had supplied for the matrilineal descent groups of the Iroquois , and , in his stress on the community aspect of descent groups , Morgan has been in many ways supported by later work . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | The major thrust of this recent research has been in four directions . |
| 15 | There has been in past years a steady requirement for 4BA nuts . |
| 16 | Gary Needham , general manager , said MCP has been in preliminary talks with Thompson but remained tight lipped on the nature of any agreement . |
| 17 | Roger 's background , unlike Owen 's has been in social services establishments . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | she has been in numerous exhibitions since graduating from Goldsmiths ' College and the Salde School of Art . |
| 20 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
| 21 | After I 'd been in three years , I got married . |
| 22 | Although he had many substantial patrons , Evesham may have been in financial straits in the mid-1620s . |
| 23 | By a respondent 's notice dated 20 February 1991 the plaintiffs gave notice of their intention to contend that the judgment should be affirmed on the additional grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) leave to appeal from the order of 4 November 1988 should have been refused ; ( 2 ) there was no ground for interfering with the judge 's finding that the first defendant was not the agent of the plaintiffs ; ( 3 ) there was no evidence that the second defendant was at any material time under the influence of or dominated by the first defendant so as to be prevented from exercising independent judgment ; ( 4 ) in so far as the first defendant repeated his over-optimistic expectations to the second defendant it was not a misrepresentation , fraudulent or otherwise ; and ( 5 ) as to whether there was manifest disadvantage , the charge was required as a condition of further increased overdraft facility to Heathrow Fabrications Ltd. , without which that company , whose success would have been of benefit to the second defendant , would have been in financial difficulties . |
| 24 | A subsidy assessment of £40 suggests that this completes the account of his lands ; any there might have been in other counties can not be deduced from the available evidence . |
| 25 | Oh it was a dreadful thing when you come to think of it now , the poor women could n't help it she was must have been in desperate straits to do a thing like that . |
| 26 | Though his thought may have been in some respects dry and narrow as a result , he set the agenda for modern philosophy and theology . |
| 27 | They were n't twins , but they could have been in some respects , she realised . |
| 28 | The teachers ' industrial action has limited this particular development , and the evaluators know of seven events which were either postponed or cancelled during the two years of the evaluation ; it is also probably the case that attendance at those events that did run was less than it would have been in happier times . |
| 29 | WHO DO YOU THINK YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN PREVIOUS LIVES ? |
| 30 | ‘ But I 'm convinced they wo n't be as confident about coming to Irvinestown as they would have been in previous seasons . |