Example sentences of "been in office " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The British people will say to themselves : ‘ Well here 's a government that 's got a majority of 100 , they 've been in office for 10 years , they 've had all these opportunities , and at the end of 10 years all they can think of to do is to make individual attacks on the Leader of the Opposition . ’ |
| 2 | Geoffrey Howe 's first budget on 14 June 1979 , only three weeks after the government had been in office , marked out the early objectives of the monetarist advance . |
| 3 | By the next general election ( say 1 991 ) the Conservatives will have been in office for sixteen of the twenty-one years since 1970 . |
| 4 | On the first anniversary of that invasion , when thousands of Czechoslovak demonstrators were dispersed on Mr Husak 's orders by the police with military support , he was awarded the Order of Lenin , the highest honour the Russians could give him , and his acceptance of it sealed his fate once and for all Within two years of becoming party leader he purged all but 26 of the central committee members who had been in office before the invasion . |
| 5 | New York 's mayor , David Dinkins , has been in office for only a year , so is obviously not responsible for these decades of neglect . |
| 6 | It will mainly be because they have been in office a long time , and because of the recession . |
| 7 | He had been in office for only 65 days , ending in January 1981 . |
| 8 | A government that has been in office for 13 years is bound to be judged overwhelmingly on its record . |
| 9 | The reviewer has only been in office for eight months but so far has not had cause to uphold a single application for a review . |
| 10 | Granted , he has been in office a short while , and has had much to occupy him . |
| 11 | You 've been in office for four months . |
| 12 | The Goldsmiths confirmed Chorleton 's re-appointment formally on 19th May 1557 , when they acknowledged that he had actually been in office since the previous Lady Day . |
| 13 | He was unfortunate to have been in office when George III 's association with the Earl of Bute brought unpopularity to his whole family . |
| 14 | This government has been in office so long that this view of personal freedom has become written into detailed policy and into legal planning advice . |
| 15 | On 7 February , after the Executive had been in office for less than six weeks , the Prime Minister , Edward Heath , announced that there would be a UK general election on the 28th . |
| 16 | She had only been in office a fortnight when she gave a lecture on social services at the ICO . |
| 17 | The hon. Gentleman will recall that since we have been in office , there has been an increase in the strength of the Cumbrian police of 110 uniformed officers and 144 civilians , making a total increase of 254 . |
| 18 | I assure the hon. Gentleman that since we have been in office we have increased expenditure for the Cumbrian police authority by 80 per cent . |
| 19 | I remind the hon. Gentleman that since we have been in office there has been an increase of 693 officers in Northumbria 's police strength . |
| 20 | Is he ashamed of the fact that every month he has been in office reading standards of seven-year-olds have fallen ? |
| 21 | Is the Prime Minister proud of the fact that since the Government came into office in 1979 nearly 2.5 million full-time jobs in manufacturing have been lost , 34 jobs for every hour this wretched Government have been in office ? |
| 22 | Does he appreciate that for every single day that he and his right hon. Friend have been in office in Whitehall place , we have similarly lost 25 farm workers and 14 farmers ? |
| 23 | Neither of those points is true after the years in which we have been in office . |
| 24 | Therefore , far from Government support having been reduced during the period that the Government have been in office , there has been an increase in real terms of 9.6 per cent . |
| 25 | I think that it was £6 billion last year , or £15 million every day that the Minister has been in office . |
| 26 | Surely a Government 's job is to address the overall rise in crime that has taken place while they have been in office , and also to deal with this new phenomenon — the amazing increase in youth crime . |
| 27 | I was about to remind the hon. Gentleman that the present Government have been in office for the past 13 years and therefore must accept a great deal of responsibility . |
| 28 | The Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) , which has been in office since its formation in 1955 , was returned to power in the general election of July 1986 . |
| 29 | Abdulla Khalid al-Attiya , general manager of the Qatar National Bank , was appointed governor of the Qatar Monetary Agency ( QMA — central bank ) on Jan. 14 , 1990 , replacing Majid Muhammad al-Majid al-Saad , who had been in office since the QMA was founded in 1973 . |
| 30 | The minority PCP government of Premier Gary Filmon , which had been in office since the April 1988 elections [ see pp. 35958-59 ] , was returned to power with 42 per cent of the vote and 30 of the 57 provincial seats . |