Example sentences of "it [verb] been in [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We are at present monitoring the policy as it has been in operation for approximately 18 months .
2 It has been in operation for 100 years and is proceeding at a very slow rate .
3 It has been in operation since last month , giving advice to around six established small and medium-sized businesses a day .
4 She 'd say they 've just had a restaurant there , that would n't be so bad as a take away But getting back to the finances , I mean the Two Hundred Club over the years it has been in operation , I mean with what it gets this , what they get this year , supposing it 's not a thousand , supposing eight hundred , it might even be about eight thousand might n't it ?
5 It is actively seeking to extend its network : currently it has been in discussion with firms in Austria , Greece , Italy , Spain and South Africa .
6 If we consider the environment in the broadest sense , much monitoring of it has been in progress for many years and by an enormous diversity of organizations in the UK ; these include the DoE , the Forestry Commission , the Nature Conservancy , the Health and Safety Executive , local authorities , the component members of the Natural Environment Research Council ( such as the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology and the British Antarctic Survey ) , individuals or research groups in academia , the CEGB , the Friends of the Earth , and UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development ( CEED ) ( 1989 ) .
7 Based largely on Michels 's study of trade union organizations , the model supposes that once any radical organization has grown to the size where it needs to delegate responsibility to professional organizers , and once it has been in existence long enough to produce a complex bureaucracy , then the original radical thrust is lost as the professionals redirect the organization to serve their own ends .
8 The blast has led to concern that the bank might be forced to decamp to another set of temporary premises — its third resting place in the 18 months it has been in existence — although this now seems unlikely .
9 Although it has been in existence for some considerable time , train operation for passengers has been provided by battery-electric power .
10 Art Basel reigns supreme among art fairs for a number of reasons : for the length it has been in existence ; for the fact that it was the first fair to introduce a selection committee ; and because of its timing .
11 But it has been in existence for almost as long as there has been detective fiction .
12 Though the moment of penetration is almost painless , the presence of the botfly causes a lot of irritation , and by the time it has been in residence for three weeks or so , the resulting lump is quite painful .
13 It has been in implementation of this principle that states have agreed on specific treaty obligations banning chemical and gas weapons , culminating in the 1925 Geneva Protocol banning Asphyxiating , Poisonous or other Gases and Bacteriological Methods of Warfare .
14 Arthur Price chairman John Price says : ‘ 13/0 certainly looks as bright and as cheerful as 18/8 but after it has been in use for a short while it goes dull and then grey and , after a year or so , stains and pitmarks develop which can not be removed . ’
15 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 .
16 For the last eight months it has been in use at a $10,000m nuclear reprocessing facility in France with no hiccups , according to US president Jeff Sutherland .
17 For the last eight months it has been in use at a $10bn nuclear reprocessing facility in France with no hiccups , according to ODB president Jeff Sutherland .
18 It is an old ship-building town , it once produced a massive proportion of British vessels , but it has been in decline for decades .
19 It is typical of this Tory government , a government that has not had a constructive idea all the time it has been in office , but thinks that union bashing is the only answer to the country 's problems , that thinks it is the only way to unite the Tory troops .
20 Though the scheme has not yet been approved by Parliament , it has been in business , in effect , since the start of the year .
21 The camp and many others like it had been in existence for years .
22 When Joyce joined the British Fascisti in December 1923 , it had been in existence for seven months .
23 The fire-ball of anger inside her had flared into life , and she had flown at him , screaming — what , she could hardly remember , except that more than half of it had been in Greek .
24 The paper published by the Commission is to be submitted to EC transport ministers ; it had been in preparation for some time , but work was speeded up following the recent tanker accidents in the Shetlands and at La Coruna in northern Spain [ see ED 67 ] .
25 She continued to lean against the gravestone , sick and shaking , her teeth chattering , her stomach as knotted and tormented as it had been in childbirth .
26 Although the then International Trade Minister John Crosbie staunchly defended the pact , the Economic Council of Canada , an independent advisory body established by the Federal Parliament , decided not to attempt to assess its impact until it had been in operation for five years .
27 Dr McGarry claimed it had been in response to the earlier statement and he welcomed the decision .
28 Since Miss Broome 's parents were both dead , it could never be known how it had been in life .
29 She was fighting and then beaten , the pain and the blackness as vivid in her nightmare as it had been in reality .
30 If it had been in charge from the outset , its architects and liturgists might have devised more dignified surroundings and procedures than those that now prevail .
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