Example sentences of "or have been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we have recently lost sleep ( after a week of trying to sleep in the daytime , for example ) or have been awake for an unusually long time , then the amount of deep sleep is increased but it is still concentrated in the earlier part of sleep . |
| 2 | Article 2 , which sets out the general areas of workers ' rights , simply spells out many rights that already exist in law , or have been present in well-unionised work places for years before Thatcherism . |
| 3 | If you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long time you have two additional problems to overcome . |
| 4 | To summarize : if you have been made redundant or have been unemployed for a long period : |
| 5 | Now unless you 're a skinhead of the old school , or have been time-warped for twenty years , parkas are not exactly in when it comes to neat threads . |
| 6 | ‘ It is not as though we are bad shopkeepers or have been foolish with our money . |
| 7 | There is a good reason : those of childhood are or have been those of every client ( and also of every social worker ) and may be considered as common to every adult group . |
| 8 | But the more ‘ reformist ’ amongst the élite have either stopped short of introducing real market conditions ( Kosygin ) or have been oblivious to the need for them . |