Example sentences of "have [be] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The later books are in large measure accurately described , and the experience of the assimilated Jew in Italy , where the Jews came to harm under Mussolini but where they were never the strangers they have been in several other countries , is summarised in a well-informed and pertinent fashion . |
| 2 | I have been in action some days . |
| 3 | Different generations are well represented here , from the newest professional at the beginning of her career to two who have been in the business for the last forty years . |
| 4 | Fortunately , not all recent pub refurbishments have been in this vein . |
| 5 | In my experience , the only occasions when I have stalled unexpectedly and known what was happening at the time , have been in very fierce stubble fires and dust devils . |
| 6 | And they have been in a position to determine the way they are investigated and the manner of their public exposure . |
| 7 | ‘ Darling , ’ he said , folding one long leg over the other , sweeping his glasses to the desk , ‘ I have been in love most of my life . |
| 8 | In deference to custom , there was a party in the child 's honour , central to which was a dish of peas , which symbolises the lessening of grief to those who have been in sorrow — never far from the Jewish consciousness , and of particular relevance to this family ; a copy of the scriptures was placed in the child 's hands , along with a pen — how especially appropriate for this child ! — which will have been followed by the usual Talmudic discussions in which , no doubt , Lyon and Solomon will have capped each other 's comments . |
| 9 | ‘ We are established in many other sports , including the Johnnie Walker Ryder Cup , the RAC Rally , the Silk Cut Derby at Hickstead , the Benson and Hedges Snooker Masters at Wembley , the Volvo European PGA Tour and the British Grand Prix ’ , explains Delahunty , ‘ and although we have been in tennis since 1985 when Stella Artois first commissioned us , I still look at tennis as a growth area . |
| 10 | The council 's Labour leadership , who have been in control since 1986 , have argued that they had no control over the transactions as the day to day running of the finance department is in the hands of expert financial staff . |
| 11 | The visiting players have been in England for some days , and all four are becoming understandable twitchy as the time to make the first moves approaches . |
| 12 | ‘ I have been in tennis long enough to know that it can . |
| 13 | Less than 5 per cent of the Ansett and Australian Airlines fleets have been in the air , using management pilots in a skeleton service supplemented by Royal Australian Air Force planes and overseas airlines . |
| 14 | David Glencross at the IBA and myself have been in full contact about this . |
| 15 | Nearly 55 per cent of people who have been in higher education had been to the theatre in the survey period , but fewer than 19 per cent of those who left school at 16 . |
| 16 | Numerous societies including the Cheltenham & Gloucester , National & Provincial , Norwich & Peterborough and Birmingham Midshires have been in the frame as possible targets . |
| 17 | Others have been in existence for years , yet seem to hold out little hope of attracting new recruits . |
| 18 | Angered by suggestions that his conduct was inexplicable and that he had not offered any constructive criticism during a 3½ hour inquest into Yorkshire 's dismal summer , Boycott claimed that the cricket sub-committee would not accept any form of responsibility : ‘ They have been in charge for five of the last six years but will not agree that they are at least partly to blame for the fact that Yorkshire cricket is in a mess . ’ |
| 19 | Sixty-two MPs , equally divided between Christians and Muslims , have been in this Saudi resort for the past two weeks examining a ‘ National Reconciliation Charter ’ drafted by Arab League mediators as the basis for a permanent peace . |
| 20 | Jesus Christ , you have been in that pit for the past three hours . |
| 21 | A book with a title like this has to be full of choice bits of information that confirm what most of us who have been in the Services have always known — that high-ranking officers can do the daftest things . |
| 22 | The agony of An Outcast of the Islands is heightened by several occasions when the meeting of eyes between those who have been in love is one of terrifying intensity . |
| 23 | Mr Kinnock , however , has moved Labour back to the centre and since 1987 the two former Alliance parties have been in disarray . |
| 24 | The Conservatives have been in Government , either alone or in coalitions dominated by their party , for sixty-seven of the past 100 years , and their share of the vote at general elections has rarely fallen below 40 per cent . |
| 25 | You can never hope to achieve the professionalism of those who have been in a single business all their lives and hence you need quickly to get to know those whose opinions you can trust . |
| 26 | I have been in the company forty years . |
| 27 | What they have been in the past , in the face of their grim working lives , is resilient . |
| 28 | We have been in Britain more than a year now , so the Home Office has extended her visa , but each time they extend it it is only by three months or six months so that she is never eligible for school . |
| 29 | They have been in limbo since the demise of the Beetle chassis , reduced to fitting air dams and wide wheels on to standard car bodies . |
| 30 | Similar changes in attitude have been in evidence throughout the training of these recruits , so much so that the unenlightened diehard points indignantly to an apparent decline in discipline and general standard . |