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

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1 In stressing this aspect , Marx and Engles were basing themselves in great part on the excellent description that Morgan had supplied for the matrilineal descent groups of the Iroquois , and , in his stress on the community aspect of descent groups , Morgan has been in many ways supported by later work .
2 ‘ But when you look at the legislation , which has been in many ways draconian for the situation which exists today , you have great difficulty in saying who is and who is not under the age of 16 .
3 I have explained to the hon. Gentleman why the funding for the Housing Executive is not as easy this year as it has perhaps been in former years .
4 ‘ Why , my lord , when we were left alone — and I think if they had not been in such haste to move on they would not have left a man of us alive to tell the tale — we first tended the worst hurt , and took counsel , and decided we must take the news on to Ramsey , and also back here to Shrewsbury .
5 Impressive as its successes have been in such matters as the unravelling of the genetic code , nevertheless they represent only an infinitesimal step towards a complete account in conventional physical terms of even the simplest animal brain .
6 But Ximena was seized with such fear as if her heart would have broken ; she and her daughters had never been in such fear since the day that they were born .
7 People who died of cancer were less likely than those dying from other causes to have been in such homes , 7 per cent against 29 per cent .
8 This question is considered for people who had been in such homes for a year or more .
9 Findings from the present study suggest that once people had become established in the homes their quality of life , in the opinion of their relatives , was similar to that of other people who died and had never been in such homes .
10 Now , at last , Jacob realizes the full extent of the danger he has been in all night .
11 She supposed most normal people in a situation like the one she and Alan had been in all day , would have ended up in bed together , here in this comfortable bed at Rose Cottage .
12 Has he been in all day ?
13 Has he been in all day ?
14 Said it 'll have been in all day .
15 So you been in all day ?
16 ‘ I 've been in all morning . ’
17 He looked at me apathetically through a mist of weakness and pain and one could see he 'd been in that water a lot too long .
18 Instead she asked Stan whether Shildon had been in that night .
19 Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap .
20 And question ten , you should have the word Preventable and words to the effect Should not have been in that position and not have assumed that the other driver was going to do what he eventually did do .
21 Unfortunately , with a marginally less successful Cup than League record , Athletico have never been in that position .
22 She had not been in that position .
23 ‘ They have never been in that position before some of them are classic cases of Thatcher 's children .
24 Hill said : ‘ I should n't have been in that position in the first place if I had not spun on the opening lap .
25 ‘ It 's a situation I have seen happen but I am grateful never to have been in that position myself ! ’ says Susan , who lives with actor-turned-writer Andy de la Tour in a house they have just bought in London .
26 If I had n't been in that bar at that time , perhaps all this would have happened to somebody else .
27 In that netherworld state , while they 've been in that state of absorption . ’
28 Jesus Christ , you have been in that pit for the past three hours .
29 The Arab armies that invaded the new Israel were driven out , together with between 500,000 and 700,000 Arab Palestinians whose homes had been in that part of Palestine that was now Israel or in those areas of Arab Palestine that the Israelis captured .
30 The demolition workers had n't been in that day .
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