Example sentences of "[adv] been [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Places such as Ceylon , Colombo , Port Said , the Suez Canal , had only been names in textbooks and beyond her wildest dreams . |
| 2 | Germany , Spain , Greece , Portugal and Italy have all been dictatorships in the last fifty years , some of them recently . |
| 3 | Workers , clients and the general public have all been victims in this laissez faire environment . |
| 4 | Socialite Lyn Bari , nightclub chanteuse Lizabeth Scott , ecdysiast Rita Hayworth , fiery senorita Dolores Del Rio : they had all been names in his little black book . |
| 5 | The intervention of outside powers , finally , has obviously been non-internationalist in both motivation and effect , except by pure accident . |
| 6 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that there has already been snow in the north , the midlands , and even on Exmoor in my constituency ? |
| 7 | There had already been examples in the fifties , notably Delmer Daves 's Broken Arrow , Robert Aldrich 's Apache and Sam Fuller 's Run of the Arrow , but it began a new trend in which the Western was appropriated by directors in order to express their liberal views . |
| 8 | An important ingredient in the life of every local community has always been pride in the local hospital or school . |
| 9 | There has always been hostility in the UK to the cook-book approach to accounting standards . |
| 10 | There had always been schisms in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
| 11 | On the other hand , there have always been people in the Christian Church who were very sure about the Holy Spirit . |
| 12 | I 'm the only one who 's ever been mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nine , taking numbers on polling stations and so on , and so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 13 | Yes , I was the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes by a clear ten years , I 'm the only one who 's ever been Mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century , erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nineteen , I was on polling stations and so on . |
| 14 | Since unguarded and uncensored words have usually been anathema in Russia , he mostly limited his performances to select private gatherings . |
| 15 | We had both been participants in the Prime of Miss Sylvia Benton , the distinguished archaeologist who was in Athens in the early sixties . |
| 16 | There had also been progress in compiling the common list of exportable products , which had grown from 312 items in 1987 to more than 700 . |
| 17 | There has also been centralization in the public services . |
| 18 | There has also been malpractice in the past by officials administering the fund , he claims , in which thousands of pounds were used to foot the bill for regimental social functions . |
| 19 | There have also been difficulties in securing spare parts from the Soviet Union following a general decline in trade between the Union and its former satellites . |
| 20 | There have also been gatherings in recent years of Anglican monastic musicians . |
| 21 | There 's also been success in the battle against illegal gatherings of new age travellers . |
| 22 | Trainer Paul Cole had also been second in Ireland 's big race on Saturday when well-backed Bright Generation was outgunned by Clive Brittain 's flying filly Sayyedati at The Curragh . |
| 23 | There have also been changes in the length of a ‘ generation ’ and the overlap between generations in families as a result of changing patterns of marriage and family formation . |
| 24 | There have also been changes in the way the family doctor service operates . |
| 25 | The artificial chicane produced by this arrangement produces speed reductions of 20–30 km/h and there have also been reductions in traffic densities and noise levels . |
| 26 | There have also been reductions in nicotine ( from an average of about 2mg in 1955–61 to about 1.3mg by 1980 ) and to a lesser extent in carbon monoxide ( 20.6mg in 1955–61 to 14.7mg in 1985 ) [ 2 ] . |
| 27 | ‘ There has clearly been change in South Africa let's take advantage of it and get more work for the town 's companies and more jobs , ’ he said . |
| 28 | ‘ There has clearly been change in South Africa let's take advantage of it and get more work for the town 's companies and more jobs , ’ he said . |
| 29 | ‘ There has clearly been change in South Africa let's take advantage of it and get more work for the town 's companies and more jobs , ’ he added Coun. John Williams , the Labour group leader , said Coun. Richmond 's invitation was premature : ‘ He is being too hasty . |
| 30 | Contrary to reports of declining sales , there have even been rises in circulation , readership and ad revenue ( slowly , but surely , the agencies have been coming round to Punch 's point-of-view ) . |