Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until the early 1980s , unemployment in Sheffield had been below the national average for the whole of the post-war period . |
| 2 | The many part-time farmers in Germany had been under the same economic pressures as their counterparts in the UK in recent years . |
| 3 | This confirmed a dramatic reversal in the political fortunes of the Azerbaijan Popular Front , which in January had been on the verge of taking power with mass support until Soviet troops had staged a bloody crackdown . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The most recent public execution in Albania had been in 1986 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | " All men fought ; all men in England had been to India for the duration of the last war , leaving behind them a country of women . |
| 8 | After last year 's franchise battle and now this takeover most of the interest in ITV has been behind the scenes , not on the screens . |
| 9 | The Carrock Fell mine in Cumbria has been in intermittent , small-scale production since 1901 . |
| 10 | Shareholders in Unisys have been through so much misery , the fear that the IBM mainframe blight will soon infect the company is so great that no reasonable offer for the company is likely to be refused — and while the Unisys debt burden is now manageable , it is still onerous for a company of Unisys ' size , but AT&T 's credit remains almost as good as gold . |
| 11 | Some of the very earliest composing machines in Britain had been in use in Edinburgh in the 1860s . |
| 12 | Would the Prime Minister confirm that today 's figures show the biggest rise in long-term unemployment in 10 years , that 1.3 million people in Britain have been without work for more than six months and that 750,000 of those have been without work for more than a year ? |
| 13 | Not only that but Bates , in a period when the game in Britain has been at its lowest ebb , has won 16 of his 27 singles , 10 out of 17 in live rubbers , and 6 of his 11 doubles . |
| 14 | For much of this century , the mines in Cornwall have been in the doldrums . |
| 15 | Recycling of paper and cardboard in Europe has been on the increase since 1989 . |
| 16 | The violent street demonstration witnessed by Abercrombie in Beirut had been in protest at these electoral violations . |
| 17 | Women in Cheltenham have been among the first to try out the NORPLANT contraceptive . |
| 18 | The opposition MPs who opposed the Government move claimed that only one small bookmaker in Edinburgh had been in favour of late opening . |
| 19 | The local press in Dyfed have been in no doubt that the bank were to blame to ruining a business of the type desperately needed in the area . |
| 20 | The various types of engines which allowed heavy industries in Wales to develop are on display . |
| 21 | I 've just done a show a touring show , for the Arts Council which opened recently in Kendel having been in Cambridge , Swansea and Liverpool . |