Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [been] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local youth offices had been in existence in a few cities as early as 1909 in Mainz ( founded by the mayor Georg Schmidt ) and 1910 in Hamburg . |
| 2 | In terms of flying hours both units had been in use for about 55 000 hours , during which something like 20 000 flights ( or landings ) had been made . |
| 3 | Most of his full-scale skirmishes had been in NoGos or Urban Blight areas . |
| 4 | Matthei had been in post since 1978 , but in the late 1980s he had been the first among the military leadership to recognize the strength of the democratic opposition and the inevitability of political change and , as a result , began to distance himself from the military hardliners . |
| 5 | Unusually , one of the schools had been in receipt of two Minor awards in successive years . |
| 6 | Although railed tramways had been in use in various parts of the country from the middle of the 18th century , generally in connection with coal mines , the first true railway in Scotland was the line from Kilmarnock to Troon . |
| 7 | As such , its loss of support was part of the continuing legacy of the Fitzgerald inquiry into corruption within the Queensland government , where the Nationals had been in power for 30 years until defeated in 1989 . |
| 8 | Momoh claimed that Burkinabe regular troops had been in action alongside the rebels . |
| 9 | In this case the defendant for many years had been in possession of some artificial ornamental lakes formed by damming up a natural stream . |
| 10 | On the journalists ' evidence , if the directives had been in force during the previous twelve months the effect on air time would have been minimal . |
| 11 | At the end of December 1980 , the returns to the Committee on Jail Reform indicated that almost 7,000 ( 8 per cent ) of the 92,000 undertrials had been in gaol for over one year , and 2,500 of these had been held for more than two years . |
| 12 | but on the occasions that we are concerned with none of The Society 's locos had been in steam so therefore can not be blamed for the incident . |
| 13 | The party was controlled by a small group of Soviet-trained communists ; a few leading figures had been in Yenan . |
| 14 | A Swiss ban on night driving by lorries had been in force since 1933 . |
| 15 | Whatever their relations had been in life , this was no sacred invitation , since it coincided with her loss of faith in the consolations of religion . |
| 16 | All 5 of these patients had been in hospital between August , 1989 , ( the first isolation of P cepacia ) and their acquisition of the epidemic strain , which prompted surveillance for P cepacia contamination in the hospital outpatient environment and analysis of social contacts of patients . |
| 17 | His friends had been in control of Punjab until Mr Ishaq 's people pushed them out after the central government was sacked on April 18th , and Manzoor Watoo , an ally of Mr Ishaq 's , installed himself as Punjab 's chief minister . |
| 18 | It has been shown that most suicide attempters are aware of the existence of agencies where they could obtain help , such as the general practitioner , social workers , or the Samaritans ( Kreitman and Chowdhury 1973b ) ; in fact , a significant proportion of attempters had been in touch with one or more of these agencies in the weeks preceding the attempt ( Bancroft et al. 1977 ) . |
| 19 | SWAPO says its men had been in Namibia all along . |
| 20 | There were furious debates in respect of schemes for Oxford and Bath , but the biggest single reversal of policy concerned London , where for many years three ringways had been in mind . |
| 21 | She was brought in when it was discovered that the largest of the two rings , in Penzance , had contact with other rings throughout the country and many of the perpetrators had been in prison . |
| 22 | Negotiations had been in progress sporadically since the 1970s and covered property in the areas of East Prussia , eastern Poland , the Baltic states and Bessarabia occupied by the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | Formal approval of detailed proposals , on which negotiations had been in progress for five months , was expected at the end of February . |
| 24 | Their children had been in care for eight months . |
| 25 | Yet many of the children had been in bookshops and knew them not to be so . |
| 26 | His self-reproaches had been in pickle for a year , and the notion that they might be out-of-date escaped him . |
| 27 | He had been waiting there since hearing from Bartocci , less than an hour earlier , that the kidnappers had been in touch and that the car would be leaving as soon as it got dark . |
| 28 | During the election campaign the party had asserted that the advanced welfare state was safe in its hands , but this promise quickly appeared to be a less than certain guarantee of the continuation of welfare programmes which in some cases had been in effect since the 1930s . |
| 29 | English Estates had been in existence for some years , but its traditional role had been factory building and commercial development on green field sites with 5,000 factories and offices on 508 estates . |
| 30 | The making of a claim was a privilege rather than a right , and claimants would therefore be expected to heed whatever rules had been in force . |