Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] been in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Golding 's own fictional worlds , unlike Amis 's or Murdoch 's , have tended to be enclosed , which may be natural to one whose early experience has been in naval life and schoolteaching ; and unlike theirs , powerfully concerned with the perils of code-breaking and a sense of shame . |
| 2 | Probably , for we later read that ‘ want of opportunity has been in some respect a prejudice to my business ’ , and , ‘ the noble act of embalming has been entirely ruined by the undertakers ’ . |
| 3 | The colt has been in constant demand for the 2,000 Guineas and is a 12–1 chance . |
| 4 | Their crushing electoral defeat of 1983 in conjunction with the realisation that their share of the popular vote has been in steady decline since 1951 has , however , forced a reassessment . |
| 5 | I think we would be wise to reflect a little longer and to think that perhaps the Government is not so far wrong in what it is saying and I have to say finally My Lords that I never in my public life , or indeed in my private life have met anybody who has said to me that their attitude towards their local police force has been in any way influenced by the fact that the members of the police authority were or were n't democratically elected . |
| 6 | Just how successful the campaign has been in straight money terms ( costs per account opened ) is unclear but the advertising is undoubtedly asking to have a different relationship with the viewer than the more passive tradition of the medium . |
| 7 | Massett has been in great form all season , a fact not lost on his boss Joe Gibiliru . |
| 8 | Mr Steisel says City Hall has been in close contact with it from the start . |
| 9 | The Jamaican born bowler has been in superb form in the Cheltenham Festival … on Wednesday his bowling against Essex could swing the match . |
| 10 | The research of Jane Rowe and Lydia Lambert , published in Children Who Wait in 1973 , showed us how inadequate our work had been in that respect . |
| 11 | The rumour mill had been in high gear since late January , when the fifty-seven year old Mr Brown announced he would retire by the end of the year to devote more time to ‘ parenting ’ and to the university founded by his family in Providence , Rhode Island ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p. 5 ) . |
| 12 | My beloved 's been in this cupboard and messed it all up . |
| 13 | There is , however , a difference between imposing liability where the company has collapsed and it emerges that a director has been in total dereliction of duty or something close to it , and using the law to promote managerial dynamism . |
| 14 | My aim has been in one respect identical to Paley 's aim . |
| 15 | ‘ If the business had been in good heart it would have cost you a great deal more . |
| 16 | Indeed , contrary to MAFF 's stubbornly held views that the LFA Directive can not be used to support conservation except as an ancillary to agricultural development , the then Minister of Agriculture , Mr Peter Walker , answered a question in the House on 10 December 1981 on how successful the LFA Directive had been in encouraging production in the UK . |
| 17 | Her remark had been in bad taste , she acknowledged , but that was no reason for him to lay into her with yet another string of personal insults , all dished out in that patronising way that got her blood heated to boiling-point . |
| 18 | Certain members of the Olympic Vibes team have been in serious disarray after one glimpse of this , and the guilty lightweights have been duly suspended from club duty . |
| 19 | The second technical advance that has improved the performance of tokamaks over the past decade has been in auxiliary heating . |
| 20 | With the company rejecting this request , the workers have gone on strike … while the strike has been in full swing a second union has been organized by 800 workers under the auspices of Zenro [ right-wing union federation ] with a new slogan of ‘ immediate acceptance of dismissals and reopening of production ’ . |
| 21 | Steve Cauthen is confident of a good run from Irish St Leger winner Mashaallah , but Magic Night has been in this battle before and this time she can win . |
| 22 | The station , which also houses the longwave domestic service has been in continuous operation since 1925 . |
| 23 | Although the sociologists and anthropologists are too polite to mention it , social codes in general including in these changing times whichever one was brought up in oneself by the preceding generation , can be seen from a sufficient distance to have been in large part shaped by gross delusions about the cosmos and about man , and by a brutal ignorance of everyone outside one 's own people , sex and class . |
| 24 | The growth of the Theatre Collection has been in some way analogous to that of the proverbial snowball , for as its reputation has increased so too has the number of donations and bequests in the form of private collections , both large and small . |
| 25 | The trouble is , cork has been in short supply . |
| 26 | First , we should remember that the British economy has been in relative decline compared to the rest of the world for a hundred or more years — long before there was ever any concern expressed about adversary politics . |
| 27 | But for centuries now — like the rest of Old Delhi — the area has been in slow decay . |
| 28 | His career has been in international brand companies — Procter & Gamble , The Rank Organisation and Revlon International . |
| 29 | Nonetheless , it seems clear that Mr Wood — whose career has been in corporate treasury departments — decided quite early on that he was not in the running for the job of chief executive , given Barclays ' desire that someone with all-round banking experience fill the post . |
| 30 | The economy had been in serious trouble during 1972 and 1973 . |