Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] been in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Bill was gazetted only two months after the closure of one of Tanzania 's few private political newspapers — the last paper which could be considered to have been in open opposition to the Government . |
| 2 | Moreover , the sexual aspect of the offence can not be said to have been in any sense downgraded . |
| 3 | A tribe of Aborigines known as the Dolphin People , who live on Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria , in northern Australia , is said to have been in direct communication for thousands of years with the wild bottlenose dolphins who reside just off the coast . |
| 4 | They seem to have been in some sort of vassal relationship with the Dzhungars until they broke away in the 1650s and 1660s . |
| 5 | ‘ Streamline has been in regular use at the Chambre de Commerce since the early 1980's . |
| 6 | They thought in terms of a picture of the universe and of the origin of humankind ( one which we now know to have been in large part mistaken ) , and they interpreted their awareness of God in conjunction with this picture . |
| 7 | However , on several other occasions the Kuwaiti authorities have denied holding individuals who were subsequently found to have been in incommunicado detention . |
| 8 | His coinage system seems to have been in good order for most of the reign , although its development and exploitation for the king 's benefit may have been another cause of popular unrest . |
| 9 | For it must be remembered that Divitiacus does not seem to have been in perfect command either of Greek or of Latin . |