Example sentences of "been in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Simmonds of laser says that success does n't happen overnight … they 've been in Banbury since the early seventies and have built 150,000 boats … he says it 's about time that people in banbury had the chance to sail on their doorstep and there are lots of local clubs that offer people the chance |
| 2 | As well as showing the average or individual costs of community care under the Home Support Project it would clearly also be useful to show whether the project was or was not cost-effective overall ; that is , whether the costs of running the service were greater or lower than the total public expenditure saved through sustaining at home people who without the project would have been in institutions . |
| 3 | I once visited a local MIND centre which was a day and short-term residential centre for people who had been in institutions with mental illness . |
| 4 | Mick Banks has been in institutions since he was 12 . |
| 5 | Others have been in existence for years , yet seem to hold out little hope of attracting new recruits . |
| 6 | Based largely on Michels 's study of trade union organizations , the model supposes that once any radical organization has grown to the size where it needs to delegate responsibility to professional organizers , and once it has been in existence long enough to produce a complex bureaucracy , then the original radical thrust is lost as the professionals redirect the organization to serve their own ends . |
| 7 | The blast has led to concern that the bank might be forced to decamp to another set of temporary premises — its third resting place in the 18 months it has been in existence — although this now seems unlikely . |
| 8 | Local youth offices had been in existence in a few cities as early as 1909 in Mainz ( founded by the mayor Georg Schmidt ) and 1910 in Hamburg . |
| 9 | Both the US Navy and Army had run their own intelligence departments since the early 1880s while the FBI had been in existence since 1910 and had been responsible for collating foreign intelligence . |
| 10 | The idea that an industry could leave behind a polluting aftermath for longer than civilization has been in existence has made the waste issue one of the strongest strands in the antinuclear case . |
| 11 | ‘ Are you aware ’ , she asked , ‘ that the National Society for the prevention of Cruelty to Children has now been in existence for ten years ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I thought that , since your society has been in existence for ten years , I might do an article on your work . ’ |
| 13 | MAGISTRATES ' Courts have been in existence for hundreds of years , presided over by lay Justices of the Peace ( magistrates ) , that is people who have no legal qualification . |
| 14 | The camp and many others like it had been in existence for years . |
| 15 | A key link with the mainland , the Larne-Stranraer route has been in existence for almost 130 years and has become an integral part of Ulster 's maritime heritage . |
| 16 | Of particular interest here is the work of the Financial Information Project which has been in existence since 1979 . |
| 17 | The idea , however , has been in existence for as long as man has worshipped . |
| 18 | Although difficult to date he believes the trackway to have been in existence for at least 2,000 years and may well pre-date Roman times . |
| 19 | Yet most of the content of this crisis had passed Poland by : the Polish state had not been in existence . |
| 20 | It is probable that a maypole tradition had already been in existence for many years , if not centuries . |
| 21 | How long has homoeopathic medicine been in existence ? |
| 22 | These will vary according to the weather and demand , but should include a visit to Wieliczka , famous for its salt miles which have been in existence since the 13th century . |
| 23 | Inevitably , in such a well-established industry — modern-style factoring has been in existence in the UK since the 1960s product improvement has come at the margins . |
| 24 | ‘ People are saying , if you 've been in existence for two and a half years , perhaps you 've got something about you , ’ he says . |
| 25 | Braintree Concerts Music Club has been in existence for 22 years , but is looking for new ways to promote itself following the decision by the district council to withdraw its grant . |
| 26 | English Nature 's Derek Langslow defines ancient woodlands as those which have been in existence since the 16th century or earlier . |
| 27 | The Young England Rugby Club has been in existence for two years but is now being relaunched as a major part of the RFU youth initiative with its own clear aims and ambitions . |
| 28 | Lyn de Alwis , Director of the Sri Lanka National Parks , had a secret weapon , although it is debatable whether you can call a facility that has been in existence for several thousand years ‘ secret ’ . |
| 29 | Although it has been in existence for some considerable time , train operation for passengers has been provided by battery-electric power . |
| 30 | 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 . |