Example sentences of "[det] [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 | These had been in Rome since at least the end of the sixteenth century . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That had been in May 1970 , almost six years after the end of Emor . |
| 6 | 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 . |