Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [been] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of those on benefit half had been in receipt for more than 2.6 years . |
| 2 | Most of the young people had suffered several foster placement breakdowns , and some had been in trouble with the law . |
| 3 | Shalikashvili was currently senior assistant to the chair of the US joint chiefs of staff ( Gen. Colin Powell ) and in 1991 had been in charge of the operation to protect the Kurdish population in northern Iraq . |
| 4 | Our source remains adamant that Mr Hoy did say that Channel 7 had been in contact with the Institute . |
| 5 | These had been in Rome since at least the end of the sixteenth century . |
| 6 | Out of a total of seventeen boys from this group interviewed over a period of one year , no fewer than ten had been in trouble with the police for offences not connected with activities at football matches . |
| 7 | Coopers ' letter adds : ‘ We confirm that , if FRS 3 had been in effect at the date of signing the audit opinion on the 1991 financial statements , and the relevant reclassifications had been made , together with the adjustment for goodwill described above , the audit opinion would not have been qualified . ’ |
| 8 | The called up share capital disclosed in the Balance Sheet fro the group at 31st March 1990 has been presented on the basis that the 1,320,000 ordinary shares of 25p each issued on the merger with Model Manufacturing Ltd had been in issue at 31st March 1990 . |
| 9 | With the possible exception of Fulford and Halwell , all the men concerned had been in Edward IV 's household . |
| 10 | With the possible exception of Fulford and Halwell , all the men concerned had been in Edward IV 's household . |
| 11 | Richards , who admitted United had been in touch with Francis , revealed : ‘ Alex Ferguson also telephoned me and suggested talks at chairman level might be useful . |
| 12 | Public health officials did all in their power to stop the 1964 pie going ahead ; there was a typhoid epidemic in Aberdeen in the 1960 's and it was found that the last serious epidemic before that had been in Denby Dale in the 1930's , and the infection can linger for many years . |
| 13 | That had been in May 1970 , almost six years after the end of Emor . |
| 14 | After the er Police Act nineteen sixty four had been in force for some years and when the government of the day which you supporters in the nineteen seventies and later , tried to erm modify it in order to er make a dovetail with local government reforms which we supported . |
| 15 | Both had been in detention without charge or trial since their arrest following the coup d'état which brought Hafez al-Assad to power in November 1970 . |
| 16 | Santa Cruz Operation Inc had been in discussions with Novell Inc for a NetWare client for its Open Desktop products — see front page — but those talks are more or less canned now that SCO thinks it 'll be able to get the same stuff through COSE . |