Example sentences of "been [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Knill said that there had been progress in collaboration with HEIs over responsive mode funding and with NERC 's institutes .
2 There has been progress in design , but no progress in accomplishment , specifically because there has been equal progress in design on both sides of the arms race .
3 The second major contextual change has been shifts in government policy , operating in the context of large scale youth unemployment .
4 As a consequence it would appear that ‘ strikes are often the most practical means of renouncing an agreement ’ ( Sellier , 1978 , p. 222 ) , although recently there have been attempts in France to institute more regularised collective relationships .
5 There was the dark-eyed , slant-featured look of the ancient lost Royal Houses of Ireland in several of them , the glossy hair that might easily have been fur in others .
6 Although there has been a radical management shake-up and there have been improvements in organisation and efficiency , the fundamental ethos of the NHS — provision of medical service free at the point of use — has remained unchanged .
7 There have been cases in cashmere relating to an earlier period and we are pursuing those actively with the EC authorities .
8 ‘ There has clearly been change in South Africa let's take advantage of it and get more work for the town 's companies and more jobs , ’ he said .
9 ‘ There has clearly been change in South Africa let's take advantage of it and get more work for the town 's companies and more jobs , ’ he said .
10 ‘ There has clearly been change in South Africa let's take advantage of it and get more work for the town 's companies and more jobs , ’ he added Coun. John Williams , the Labour group leader , said Coun. Richmond 's invitation was premature : ‘ He is being too hasty .
11 I kept trying to remember what a good time Sugar and Spite had been — and Goodstyle , a history of art revue I 'd written and pinched and compiled for Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art , Dundee , when I 'd been writer in residence .
12 ‘ Eighty years ago her subjects would have been knights in armour , ladies in wimples and distress … now , in 1939 , they were bodiless heads , green horses and violet grass , seaweed , shells and fungi ’ , all executed in the style of Dali .
13 After the funeral , when they were eating the lunch he had arranged at the Black Lion in Wellingham High Street , Sara was approached by Mr. Crowther , Aunt Alicia 's solicitor and senior partner in Crowther , Boon and Crowther , who had been solicitors in Wellingham for three generations .
14 I saw no trouble at the match , but I heard on TV afterwards that there had been fights in Waverly station before and after the match
15 The increased output achieved on assisted farms has been 14% in cattle numbers and 27% in sheep numbers(23) .
16 Does my right hon. Friend agree that the problem faced by the United Nations in recent decades has been entanglement in east-west confrontation and that at this stage of its development it does not need to embark on an extremely controversial and difficult period of structural reform but should make greater use not only of the United Nations charter but of the existing United Nations machinery ?
17 Karl Barth had been pastor in Safenwil since 1911 .
18 There were accusations of plagiarism , of cheating , of fabricating data ; there was name-calling in public as Fleischmann and Pons were called ‘ incompetent ’ and ‘ deluded ’ ; there were deep politics , paranoia and , by the end of the year , threats of writs being issued against the editor of a leading scientific journal and against one scientist whose experiments suggested that there had been errors in Pons ' laboratory .
19 Trainer Paul Cole had also been second in Ireland 's big race on Saturday when well-backed Bright Generation was outgunned by Clive Brittain 's flying filly Sayyedati at The Curragh .
20 There have never been prosecutions in Northern Ireland , and in Great Britain there were ten prosecutions between 1944 and 1988 , with a total in fines of £334 in the seven successful cases .
21 Even where there has been continuity in party organization changes of orientation have occurred .
22 One crucial communicating network would link the individual schools promoting particular languages in which there has been continuity in terms of staffing and tutor-groups over a number of years .
23 There have also been reductions in nicotine ( from an average of about 2mg in 1955–61 to about 1.3mg by 1980 ) and to a lesser extent in carbon monoxide ( 20.6mg in 1955–61 to 14.7mg in 1985 ) [ 2 ] .
24 The artificial chicane produced by this arrangement produces speed reductions of 20–30 km/h and there have also been reductions in traffic densities and noise levels .
25 Bromley admits that there have been reductions in ITV 's coverage .
26 Carole Hillenbrand since 1979 has been lecturer in Arabic at the University of Edinburgh , where here husband Robert , is Professor of Islamic Art .
27 It means that necessarily there have been variations in people 's need for support from their kin , and in the capacity of kin to provide it .
28 Measures which other researchers have described as corresponding to subjective risk have been changes in heart rate or GSR and subjective estimates of the chances of being involved in a near miss ( Watts & Quimby , 1980 ) .
29 We fully accept that there have been changes in technique during this time , as described earlier , and as table 1 shows , in all sutured ileoanal anastomosis some form of mucosectomy was performed .
30 Peter Chester informed the same Committee that ‘ there certainly have been changes in knowledge .
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