Example sentences of "[been] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The terror , rather than tepidity , of the priesthood , it had undoubtedly been in many an Italian city in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries ; and even more , perhaps , in the bloody riots in Cologne in 1074 which nearly subdued the pride of the prince archbishop of the city — or the riots in Laon in 1112 which erupted in the murder of the unpopular Bishop Waldric , and gravely shocked both the chivalrous King Louis of France , and his neighbour the English king , Henry I , whose chancellor Waldric had been . |
| 3 | He had been in many tight spots during his life , and guarding a warehouse did not trouble him unduly . |
| 4 | I 've never been in any factory in my life , working nights , I have been in many , but I 've never found my fellow men very sociable on the night shift . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | I have explained to the hon. Gentleman why the funding for the Housing Executive is not as easy this year as it has perhaps been in former years . |
| 7 | Investors on Wall Street have rarely been in such an uncertain state — which means big money is about to be lost and won |
| 8 | Others , however , joined in the exercise : ‘ It must have been in such and such a way ; I mean , there 's a story which says … |
| 9 | According to the assessments of relatives , friends , and neighbours who answered the questions , the quality of life of people who had been in a residential home for a year or more before their death was similar to that of others who died but had never been in such a home . |
| 10 | People who died of cancer were less likely than those dying from other causes to have been in such homes , 7 per cent against 29 per cent . |
| 11 | The proportions reported to have had difficulty with various aspects of caring for themselves ( getting in and out of a bath or shower , dressing and undressing , going to the toilet , washing and shaving , feeding themselves , making a hot drink , or needing help at night ) for a year or more before death was 87 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more , 60 per cent of those in for a shorter time and 25 per cent of those who had not been in such a home at all . |
| 12 | This question is considered for people who had been in such homes for a year or more . |
| 13 | Findings from the present study suggest that once people had become established in the homes their quality of life , in the opinion of their relatives , was similar to that of other people who died and had never been in such homes . |
| 14 | Even more exhilarating was the fact that already his ambitions as a choreographer were making progress : ‘ I have been in such a state lately ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was the first time she 'd been in such a grand vehicle , and when she looked over the side she seemed so high up she was dizzy . |
| 17 | Since Christmas day her feelings for him had been in such a chaotic state she did n't know whether she loved or hated him . |
| 18 | Why had Carmen been in such a hurry ? |
| 19 | Impressive as its successes have been in such matters as the unravelling of the genetic code , nevertheless they represent only an infinitesimal step towards a complete account in conventional physical terms of even the simplest animal brain . |
| 20 | She would have liked Nice — if she had not been in such a hurry to be in Paris . |
| 21 | I thought I had never been in such great danger . |
| 22 | If male doctors have difficulty accepting or understanding this it is probably because they have not been in such powerless positions since childhood . |
| 23 | A few of the teenage mothers in this book had been in such a home . |
| 24 | ‘ Why , my lord , when we were left alone — and I think if they had not been in such haste to move on they would not have left a man of us alive to tell the tale — we first tended the worst hurt , and took counsel , and decided we must take the news on to Ramsey , and also back here to Shrewsbury . |
| 25 | Mind you , it could have been cheaper if you had n't been in such a hurry . |
| 26 | I had never been in such a forest and found it fascinating . |
| 27 | When Joyce was a teenager Commissioner Charles Duncan came to inspect the corps , and his words in one of the public meetings stuck in her memory : " I have never been in such a well ordered home . " |
| 28 | If you had n't been in such a foul temper — ’ |
| 29 | Certainly he had not been in such close proximity to a pretty young girl for as long as he could remember . |
| 30 | She had never been in such a place before , and she saw at once that most of the men had girls with them who were certainly not their wives , or the kind of girl one took home to mother . |