Example sentences of "[been] a [noun sg] or [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from intervention , the other usual response to currency pressure has been a rise or reduction in interest rates . |
| 2 | ‘ Miss Fanshawe , this girl clearly could not have been a friend or neighbour at Eastover whom your parents were simply driving to London . |
| 3 | There was something almost personal in the attitude of the investigating officers , as if Jacob had been a friend or relative of theirs . |
| 4 | They were in another disused , rubble-filled space which might once have been a yard or garden . |
| 5 | The headings that I tabulate in this way ( but you may like to include others ) are as follows : identity ; outstanding mortgages ; restrictive covenants ; covenants for production ; land charge searches ; registrations with freeholders ( for sales of leaseholds ) ; endorse memorandum ( when there 's been a probate or letters of administration , or a sale of a part only of the land comprised in a prior conveyance ) ; and stamping of documents . |
| 6 | Ferguson ( 1989 , p. 5 ) mentions the idea that the pillar might have been a representation or reduction of a sacred tree . |
| 7 | And it could n't have been a sough or drain , for there could have been no reason to drain water into a mine . |
| 8 | Peering out , I could see that there must once have been a garden or kail-yard between the cottage and the cliff ; now the tumbledown wall enclosed nothing but a tangle of brambles and wild roses almost hiding a garden hut . |
| 9 | ( ii ) been a director or member of or a beneficial owner of any share in a recognised body which held or received clients ' money ; or |
| 10 | ( iii ) been a director or member of or a beneficial owner of any share in a recognised body which directly or indirectly owned any share in another recognised body which held or received clients ' money ; |
| 11 | ( a ) a director or member of the body is or has been a director or member of a recognised body which has been the subject of an order or direction under paragraphs 18 or 21 of Schedule 2 to the Act or the recognition of which has been revoked under Rule 10 of these Rules or has expired under Rule 9 of these Rules ; or |
| 12 | Thus one starts with an indication that more than one person may be affected by the problem , and that there may have been a crisis or trigger-event leading to a referral for assistance at this point . |
| 13 | But the coroner said that while the man had clearly committed suicide , it was n't clear whether his wife 's death had been an accident or murder . |