Example sentences of "[verb] been in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 He has been in serious office since 1979 , in cabinet for nine years .
3 Keith has been in serious training for the last two weeks .
4 This would be true for at least two of the examples of ( 18 ) , to which we may add at random : ( 32 ) some delegates who were German frowned the starling which is inquisitive is female It is emphatically not the answer to say , " those which can not become postnominal attributives turn into prenominals instead " , for two reasons : first , as we have already seen , there is a major difference of function between prenominal position and predicative position as occupied by the adjective in the sort of relative clause proposed ; and , second , this still leaves us facing the question of why some relative clauses can apparently be reduced to postnominal adjectives and others can not ( indeed this question , previously passed by , has been in serious need of an answer from those who want to relate prenominal adjectives — or simply attributives in general — to predicative position ) .
5 Laura 's Beau was third last year but has been in rotten form since then having been plagued by blood trouble .
6 As noted earlier , most of the newly created jobs in the service sector are occupied by women on a part-time basis , whereas most of the labour expelled from manufacturing has been in full-time jobs occupied by men .
7 One important application for Markov models has been in automatic speech recognition ( ASR ) in which a speech signal is modelled as a probabilistic function of a ( hidden ) Markov chain .
8 The Jamaican born bowler has been in superb form in the Cheltenham Festival … on Wednesday his bowling against Essex could swing the match .
9 All that might have made Mr Kohl even more overbearing than he has been in recent weeks , to the dismay of West Germany 's allies and neighbours .
10 Surprisingly though , even in what has been in recent years the most buoyant sector of oil product demand — petrol — there is likely to be a gradual lowering of demand despite increased usage of cars .
11 There has been in recent years a steady increase in the number of courses in ‘ bilingual training for business people ’ .
12 That came as no surprise to us , as we know how good the business climate in this country has been in recent years with the success of deregulation and low taxation and the attractiveness of Britain as a home of inward investment .
13 One of the dangers of the current climate for admission , which makes it more difficult than it has been in recent years for students to get into universities , is that the concentration is on the techniques of application , rather than on what lies behind the mechanical process .
14 March has been in financial difficulties for some time and does n't have a sponsor for this season .
15 The centre has been in financial trouble before , but has always managed to find further sources of funding at times of apparent crisis .
16 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 .
17 My aim has been in one respect identical to Paley 's aim .
18 Now , at last , Jacob realizes the full extent of the danger he has been in all night .
19 The fastest growth has been in other kinds of paper , and particularly paper packaging , which now takes up 19% of the space in landfills .
20 An employee needs to show that he has been in two years continuous employment .
21 The station , which also houses the longwave domestic service has been in continuous operation since 1925 .
22 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 .
23 This is the most famous of all ancient circular temples and , first as a temple , and later as a church , has been in continuous use since its building .
24 Though the 27-year-old Scot has yet to win the championship she was third last year , on her comeback following pregnancy she has been in unbeatable form since her 10,000 metres World Championship triumph in Tokyo , winning the New York Marathon , setting a world indoor 5,000 metres record and lapping all of her 3,000 metres rivals in the Great Britain v USA indoor international last weekend .
25 The second technical advance that has improved the performance of tokamaks over the past decade has been in auxiliary heating .
26 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 .
27 Much of the recent growth in service sector employment has been in private services .
28 She has been in private use in Scandinavia only , and is very well equipped .
29 Iro has been in poor form for the Sea Eagles and was told several weeks ago that he would have to take a pay cut to stay with the club .
30 Hnatiuk says his savings account has been in good shape for a boy this past two years .
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