Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [been] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of the fact that the Carews had been in Ireland since the middle of the seventeenth century , he still regarded himself as an expatriate living among a semi-barbarous people in a semi-barbarous land . |
| 2 | The PDC had been in opposition since leaving Endara 's government in April 1991 ; Arias had remained in the constitutional post of First Vice-President without attending Cabinet meetings . |
| 3 | The government were not reassured to learn that Branson had been in consultation with Robert Beckman , the New York lawyer who was fighting the anti-trust action on Laker 's behalf . |
| 4 | Miloš knew that Karadjordje had been in contact with the representatives of the Greek nationalist organisation Philike Hetairia ( Society of Friends ) , which was planning a general rising of all the sultan 's Christian subjects . |
| 5 | In the old days , he and his brother Josh had been in charge of the Punishment Squad . |
| 6 | Paul Gascoigne 's career and his hugely expensive transfer to Lazio had been in doubt ever since his disastrous knee injury in last year 's FA Cup Final , but the night club fracas which brought about a further fracture made a successful recovery look still less likely . |
| 7 | Ireland had been in rebellion for eight years . |
| 8 | Ash had been in London for a programming interview with some big insurance company and had offered me a lift back home , or to Gallanach anyway , as I 'd exiled myself from Lochgair . |
| 9 | Shelter 's research has found up to half of all homeless young people in Scotland had been in care , but only 34 per cent of district councils categorise them as vulnerable . |
| 10 | Dexter , 57 , was the first chairman to be paid when he took over in March 1989 after Peter May had been in charge for seven years . |
| 11 | In a national address on television on March 4 , Aylwin rejected the claims of Pinochet and his supporters that Chile had been in state of civil war and that human rights violations were an inevitable cost . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't suppose I 'd have done so well if Maggie had been in charge ’ he was a Minister in the Wilson government . |
| 13 | Before that Eva had been in Rhodesia , Margaret and her husband were doing medical missionary work in India , the boys had been in the Far East . |
| 14 | Albert Sandison had been in Naples for three weeks and he was beginning to forget why he had come . |
| 15 | He used the occasion to inform the public that his decision to withdraw from the campaign in July had been in response to a Republican dirty tricks campaign which had included a plan to smear his daughter through manufactured photographs and to disrupt her forthcoming wedding . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , strike partner While there has been no doubting the high regard Beardsley is held in around Everton , many had begun to question Mo Johnston , whose future at Goodison had been in doubt after two months in the cold , looks to have earned a temporary reprieve following his equaliser against Liverpool . |
| 17 | Twenty one year old Wayne O'Hora , also from Ecton Brook had been in custody since the killing , but Northampton magistrates granted him conditional bail until next month . |
| 18 | An alternative to thinking that Harald had been in England since 1016 , and returned to Denmark with part of a disbanded fleet in 1018 , might be that he had in the interval been expelled from it , and sailed with the fleet in 1018 in an attempt to regain control . |
| 19 | By the middle of February , when the Shah had been in Morocco more than a month , it had become common gossip in the diplomatic corps that Hassan was giving him the cold shoulder . |
| 20 | The Beacon had been in existence for many years and in the past had catered for up to thirty children with a wide range of disabilities and needs . |
| 21 | The great Chertsey Road had been in construction for some while as it involved the building of three new bridges over the River Thames at Chiswick , Richmond and Twickenham , but it was completed in 1933 , and the entire achievement was formally opened by Edward , Prince of Wales , who drove along the route , cutting ribbons at each of the three bridges . |
| 22 | Jackson had been in Singapore since Saturday , giving two concerts and enjoying a final day of relaxation that included a visit to the zoo and a meeting in his hotel with six orang-utans . |
| 23 | Was this because Rayne had been in charge of the Commissariat ? |
| 24 | An Ulsterman and pre-war Irish rugby international , Paddy had been in No. 11 ( Scottish ) Commando , which was part of Layforce . |
| 25 | When Philip had been in hospital when he 'd had croup that 's what he hated worst , the pulling of the curtains . |
| 26 | Previously Cyrus Vance had been in favour of his admission ; indeed in January he had asked Henry Kissinger to help find the King a home . |
| 27 | But that same summer thermo-nuclear war was the subject of a remarkable series of lectures being given at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Study by the futurologist , Herman Kahn , which showed how far human values had been changed during the years Fuchs had been in prison . |
| 28 | They said that an AI group from Austria had been in touch with them with help and support , and that people from all over the world were pressing for his release . |
| 29 | Appiah had been in England from 1944 — 54 and married the daughter of Stafford Cripps . |
| 30 | Since about 1938 Ho had been in China , first at the communist headquarters in Yenan then , apparently , with Chinese Nationalist forces , finally in Kwangsi and Yunnan which were close enough for him to attempt to resume contact with the Party inside Vietnam . |