Example sentences of "[conj] have [been] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hundreds of different products are or have been manufactured there , and the capacity and capability is impressive . |
| 2 | Some memoirs , too , take us much further than official material ; those of de Gaulle are a case in point , while British official documents which in their original form remained hidden from the historian by the thirty-year rule were printed in the books of Winston Churchill and Eden , or have been unearthed in private collections by scholars able to disregard the consequences of publication . |
| 3 | This sounds simple enough , yet it does mean that the data subject ( to whom the information relates ) and the data user ( who puts it into a computer ) should each see the handling of the data in the same way , and this has not always been the case when data have been disclosed to third parties , or have been collected for one ostensible purpose and used for another . |
| 4 | When marital relationships have declined , or have been lost altogether it becomes far easier for older people to suppress their sexual needs , to feel that they are unnatural and unwanted . |
| 5 | It may be that only when key supportive figures are lacking , or have been lost , that others in the wider social network ( the health visitor , ‘ befriender ’ or social worker ) can have a protective effect . |
| 6 | In theory , it should be easy to tell whether you have left voluntarily or have been dismissed . |
| 7 | In a number of instances , actual boundary stones remain , or have been recorded in the recent past . |
| 8 | Especially in the ‘ new nations ’ , political parties which emerged from the independence movements have either consolidated their position , or have been challenged and replaced by still newer parties , or destroyed by military coups . |
| 9 | We propose that inflammatory bowel disease patients who are or have been treated with systemic steroids and have articular complaints are investigated for osteonecrosis preferably by magnetic resonance scanning . |
| 10 | As a result , many of them have fallen by the wayside or have been merged . |
| 11 | Where invoices recorded on the statement have not been received or have been mislaid , copies will be required from the supplier . |
| 12 | Once derived , criteria may be interpreted differently by different teachers , unless a group have worked together on producing the criteria or have been trained to use them . |
| 13 | I assume that people are put on the list if they have been connected with an offence relating to prostitution or have been cautioned . |
| 14 | A number of other studies have also shown that non-traditional students who have been carefully selected on the basis of criteria which relate to the ability to meet the demands of higher education , or have been prepared for higher education , have relatively high completion rates when compared with all students . |
| 15 | Recent years have seen a good deal of change and instability in energy markets and the aim of the study is to investigate how these have influenced , or have been influenced by , the form of contractual behaviour in the markets . |
| 16 | S 459 of the Companies Act 1985 provides that if a company 's affairs are being or have been conducted in a manner which is unfairly prejudicial to the company 's interests , then the members may obtain relief through the courts . |
| 17 | Many students are orphans or have been separated from their families . |
| 18 | On sites where there are no walls or other solid remains , those differences alone show the presence of archaeological features , such as pits and ditches that have silted up or have been filled in . |
| 19 | If it exists at all , their efforts must be going unrecognised , or have been rendered inoperative , or were never activated in the first place . |
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| 21 | Or have been asked not to by her husband … ’ he put his arm round his wife . |
| 22 | Does she think that I have no feelings , or have been struck deaf because I stand by the kitchen door , silent ? |
| 23 | Once people have been diagnosed as suffering from food poisoning , or have been struck down by viral infactions and diseases caused by doubtful practices , it is necessary for somebody to step in and legislate for the industry . |
| 24 | Any hollows or unevenness indicate either that they have been badly laid or have been affected by subsidence . |
| 25 | ( s ) To support and subscribe to any charitable or public object and to support and subscribe to any institution , society , or club which may be for the benefit of the Company or its Directors or employees , or may be connected with any town or place where the Company carried on business ; to give or award pensions , annuities , gratuities , and superannuation or other allowances or benefits or charitable aid and generally to provide advantages , facilities and services for any persons who are or have been Directors of , or who are or have been employed by , or who are serving or have served the Company , or any company which is a subsidiary of the Company or the holding company of the Company or a fellow subsidiary of the Company or the predecessors in business of the Company or of any such subsidiary , holding or fellow subsidiary company and to the wives , widows , children and other relatives and dependants of such persons ; to make payments towards insurance ; and to set up , establish , support and maintain superannuation and other fund or schemes ( whether contributory or non-contributory ) for the benefit of any such persons and of their wives , widows , children and their relatives and dependants ; and to set up , establish , support and maintain profit sharing schemes for the benefit of any of the employees of the Company or share purchase schemes for the benefit of any of the solicitor or registered foreign lawyer employees of the Company and to lend money to any such employees or to trustees on their behalf to enable any such purchase schemes to be established or maintained . |
| 26 | ( s ) To support and subscribe to any charitable or public object and to support and subscribe to any institution , society , or club which may be for the benefit of the Company or its Directors or employees , or may be connected with any town or place where the Company carried on business ; to give or award pensions , annuities , gratuities , and superannuation or other allowances or benefits or charitable aid and generally to provide advantages , facilities and services for any persons who are or have been Directors of , or who are or have been employed by , or who are serving or have served the Company , or any company which is a subsidiary of the Company or the holding company of the Company or a fellow subsidiary of the Company or the predecessors in business of the Company or of any such subsidiary , holding or fellow subsidiary company and to the wives , widows , children and other relatives and dependants of such persons ; to make payments towards insurance ; and to set up , establish , support and maintain superannuation and other fund or schemes ( whether contributory or non-contributory ) for the benefit of any such persons and of their wives , widows , children and their relatives and dependants ; and to set up , establish , support and maintain profit sharing schemes for the benefit of any of the employees of the Company or share purchase schemes for the benefit of any of the solicitor or registered foreign lawyer employees of the Company and to lend money to any such employees or to trustees on their behalf to enable any such purchase schemes to be established or maintained . |
| 27 | The provisions that make this £150 " discrepancy " potentially chargeable are : ( i ) s 19 TA 1988 , the Schedule E income tax charging provision ; and ( ii ) s 162 TA 1988 , which can apply the " notional loan " provisions of s160 to a situation where Newco acquires shares in Target and persons " connected " with Newco , namely management , are or have been employed by Target and/or are about to be employed by Newco , and the Target shares are acquired at an under-value in pursuance of a right or opportunity available by reason of management 's employment . |
| 28 | With some pottery , chemical analysis can also be used to discover what the pottery vessel may have once contained or have been used for . |
| 29 | Many others have to be removed ( or have been bred out ) during preparation of food , e.g. the raphides of many Araceae and the cyanide-containing compounds in cassava ( Manihot esculenta , Euphorbiaceae ) . |
| 30 | When interest group activity is added to electoral pressure , the ‘ shame ’ attached to being held responsible for social dissensus , lead to changes which may have been a voluntary response or have been supervised by a state responding to legitimate protest . |