Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] have been in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of those points is true after the years in which we have been in office . |
| 2 | I have come to the House this afternoon from a meeting with a representative of the Canadian High Commission , with which we have been in constant touch from the outset of the incident . |
| 3 | Their courage in entering into the conflict and their presence of mind in circumstances in which they have been in enormous danger are a great tribute to the individuals themselves and to the institution that sent them . |
| 4 | At all stages in the development of armory , and in all the centuries during which it has been in use , there have been two conflicting underlying factors , and it is important that the local historian be aware of them from the outset , so that if false trails are followed they are not followed for long . |
| 5 | It also believes that planning can ensure that new buildings are designed in a way which it likes , and has an ability to prevent anything , however small , happening near its own house which reduces its value or interferes with the way in which it has been in the habit of using it . |
| 6 | She was his servant , whatever she had been in her previous life , and she was ten or more years younger than himself , and what a battered old soldier he was , to be hungering after such a fresh young girl . |
| 7 | What they have been in the past , in the face of their grim working lives , is resilient . |
| 8 | ‘ Did she tell you what he 'd been in prison for ? ’ |
| 9 | you do n't even know what he 's been in |
| 10 | Since the total grain harvest proved to be a mere 52 per cent of what it had been in 1913 , even the least affected areas had barely enough . |
| 11 | The level of truck loadings for 1922 was under one-third of what it had been in 1913 , although there was a vast improvement towards the end of the year . |
| 12 | It was just that at the moment of climax when the escape had to be attempted or abandoned , it became if attempted something quite different from what it had been in the planning . |
| 13 | But during the 1980s , subsidies have been progressively removed , and the IMF-sponsored auction of the local currency ( the kwacha ) meant that by 1987 its purchasing power was only one-third what it had been in 1983 . |
| 14 | The US still carried much of the burden of NATO defence and undoubtedly remained the most powerful state in the world , but its relative superiority to other states was not what it had been in the 1950s . |
| 15 | King 's Cross was not what it had been in her day . |
| 16 | The paganism of the eastern Angles over the next two or three years suggests that Eadwine 's influence in the region was no longer what it had been in Eorpwald 's lifetime . |
| 17 | I knew it could n't be restored to what it had been in the old days , but there was still room for a club where members had fun rather than did business . |
| 18 | By 1990 cash spending on the NHS was two and a half times what it had been in 1979 , topping £27 billion and making the DOH the second largest spending department ( NAHAT 1990 ) . |
| 19 | In Britain , the Beeching Report on ‘ Reshaping the Railways ’ ( BRB 1963 ) led to a programme of closures and cutbacks that by 1968 had halved the number of stations , closed 8,000 km of route , halved the number of goods wagons and sharply reduced passenger services ; by 1970 , railway employment was less than half what it had been in 1963 . |
| 20 | Now I would say to sa say that that is almost a bit like the story of the boy crying that he did n't have many holidays because he did n't go to school and that because Harrogate 's er unemployment is so low or has been historically so low compared with other areas , a relatively small increase in the number of unemployment has an enormous increase as compared with what it 's been in the past and so the same number of people living in Harrogate who lose their jobs has an impact on the unemployment figures as perceived locally greater than a similar number of people losing their jobs in Leeds or Selby or somewhere else , and so I think to some extent this the rhetoric has outrun the reality on that point . |