Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another significant change in carp fishing technique has been in surface fishing . |
| 2 | Last month Amnesty International called for all charges against him to be withdrawn and concluded : ‘ At every stage the behaviour of the authorities has been in open defiance of the authority of the courts and the rule of law . ’ |
| 3 | Studies of rape in England and Wales suggest that two-thirds of rapes take place in the home of the victim or the offender , and that only one-third involve strangers ; that two-fifths of victims suffer physical violence as well as rape , and one-sixth suffer additional sexual indignities ; that recent years have seen an increase in the reporting of rapes between acquaintances , and that rapes are increasing a little in their intrinsic seriousness ( i.e. in terms of the violence used , other sexual acts , etc ) , but that the most significant rise has been in the average length of sentences imposed on rapists by the courts . |
| 4 | Jenkins has been in the job for about ten days , so she can be forgiven for forgetting a lot of names , but she does have a long history of dealing with elderly people . |
| 5 | Given the amount of time that Karsten Schubert has been in business and given the new wave of gallery/dealers , this year is going to be the year to break with a much more open policy towards new art , are being seen as central to the contemporary art scene . |
| 6 | This conc has been in progress all today . |
| 7 | Bramham Park has been in the Lane Fox family for eight generations , since Robert Benson and the first Lord Bingley built the House and laid out the grounds in the manner of Versailles in 1698 and George Fox married his daughter . |
| 8 | The main change has been in attitudes to Japan and Western Europe . |
| 9 | The second change has been in share prices themselves : in the 1980s they soared . |
| 10 | The numbers unemployed and in education rose but a bigger change has been in the numbers on the Youth Training Scheme which was set up in 1983 . |
| 11 | The most important contextual change has been in the labour market . |
| 12 | Another radical change has been in the traditional structure for production management on the major multi-business sites . |
| 13 | When the morning walk has been a hot , hard climb and all breathing has been in gasps , you can arrive at lunchtime with a mouth as dry as a salt mine . |
| 14 | The least coverage has been in the realm of news and current affairs , where until the recent AIDS and Clause 28 reportage gay stories have been given only very occasional attention . |
| 15 | March has been in financial difficulties for some time and does n't have a sponsor for this season . |
| 16 | Mick Banks has been in institutions since he was 12 . |
| 17 | ICI has been in the polypropylene business since the early 1960s and currently has capacity for 300 kt per year , part at Wilton in the UK , part at Rozenburg in Holland . |
| 18 | ICI has been in the polyethylene terephthalate business since the 1940s when it began to develop the material as a fibre — ‘ Terylene ’ — following its invention by two British chemists . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | LM It is very easy in the kind of society Czechoslovakia has been in the past twenty years to lose a more general perspective on events . |
| 21 | The police national computer has been in operation since 1974 . |
| 22 | Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche has been in England since 1975 and most ordained people take either Kelsang or Gyatso in their names . |
| 23 | Ben has been in the home since the beginning of the year when , while appearing as the Sheriff of Nottingham in a panto in Whitchurch , he was taken ill in his digs . |
| 24 | Timex has been in Dundee for 47 years . |
| 25 | Well you could say that erm our background goes back erm twenty-five years , in fact , we 've had a considerable involvement with industry both local and national for as long as the University has been in existence , which is now nearly twenty-five years . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Apart from public education , my own field of interest and experience has been in the discourse analysis of language in the magistrates ' court , where I have played the roles of a bilingual interpreter and of a sociolinguist observing the language scene . |
| 28 | While this struggle has been in the making , gay men in youth work have remained silent . |
| 29 | Of the 35 goals England have scored in the 26 matches Taylor has been in charge , just three have come from outside the penalty area . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |