Example sentences of "[coord] has be in " in BNC.

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1 ‘ A person who is or has been … a member of the security and intelligence services … is guilty of an offence if without lawful authority he discloses any information … which is or has been in his possession by virtue of his position as a member of any of those services …
2 A French-lexified Creole is , or has been in common use in several other territories as well — Trinidad , Grenada and St Vincent among them .
3 Of the two , Mr Yates , who will be 81 in November and has been in Congress almost without a break since he was first elected in 1948 , had the easier time of it .
4 Leaving aside positions like the Earl Marshal , which is largely concerned with organizing coronations and state funerals , and has been in the Duke of Norfolk 's family since 1672 , the court is knitted together by blood and marriage .
5 At this village off the A40 south of Fishguard is the Tregwynt Woollen Mill , which dates from the middle of the eighteenth century and has been in continuous production of woollen yarns since then .
6 This series , with accompanying maps , was started in 1950 ( and has been in revision since 1970 ) .
7 Joan 's husband suffers from motor neurone disease , is very weak and has been in a wheelchair for the last nine years , almost totally dependent on her for physical care .
8 This rumour was started the day after the dam was built and has been in circulation ever since .
9 Canon Radford added : ‘ The Archbishop of Canterbury has been informed and has been in touch with Bishop Peter .
10 It has been rediscovered by dynamic psychology in the twentieth century , but it is an ancient insight and has been in the Bible all along .
11 The technique was developed by Dr James C. Lewis of Imperial College , London and has been in use since the 1970s , replacing other more elaborate methods such as the use of fish bladders .
12 Carved in Germany in the late tenth or early eleventh century , the plaque measures 13.7x11.3 cm and has been in private ownership throughout this century .
13 Those who stress sisterhood rather than equality value a great deal in women 's distinctive approach as it now is ( and has been in societies much less egalitarian than ours ) and do not want it lost in the melting-pot of assimilation .
14 Exchange control was introduced in 1930 and has been in force ever since , but subject to the provisions of exchange control it was a basic tenet of pre-communist Hungarian law that foreigners had the same rights as Hungarians in all respects ( but for some professions and performing public functions Hungarian citizenship was necessary ) .
15 She is 24 and has been in prison or special hospital for the past five and a half years .
16 ‘ However , he damaged his spine over twenty years ago , after being thrown from his horse , and has been in a wheelchair ever since . ’
17 There is a parallel with the BCR here : Which preserved narrow gauge railway was opened in 1876 , declared bankrupt in 1877 , abandoned in 1912 and has been in the hands of private operators since 1915 ?
18 Swan Hunter , whose present workforce numbers 2,200 , is now in the hands of receivers and has been in acute crisis since failing to win a vital Ministry of Defence helicopter-carrier order .
19 For this purpose a new statutory pre-notification procedure was introduced by the Companies Act 1989 and has been in effect since April 1990 .
20 But these days he 's devoting his time to his first love … music , and has been in the region to launch a series of unusual concerts .
21 Gavin is also 1990 Junior British Champion in the under 45 kilo category , and has been in the top three of every competition he has ever entered .
22 Ramsgill Moor varies from 1,000 to 1,700ft. above sea level and has been in the Briggs family since 1946 .
23 Normidtec covers Halton , Vale Royal and Warrington and has been in operation for 18 months .
24 According to the Guinness Book of Records , the oldest archery company in Britain is the Society of Archers of Yorkshire which was not formed until 1673 but has been in being since then .
25 He has an economics degree plus postgraduate management training , but has been in the business for 12 years .
26 This victory is a fillip for Mrs Bandaranaike , who became the world 's first woman prime minister in 1960 , but has been in the political wilderness in recent years .
27 Laura 's Beau was third last year but has been in rotten form since then having been plagued by blood trouble .
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