Example sentences of "been [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you end the contract for any reason during the trial period , you will be treated as having been dismissed on the date when your original job ended . |
| 2 | The middle-aged married couple who had been caretakers before him had been dismissed on the spot for gross drunkenness . |
| 3 | More than one appeal concerned solely with the scale rather than the principle of whether there should be any development , has been dismissed on the grounds that the site was unsuitable for any development at all . |
| 4 | Mrs Johnston made a claim to an industrial tribunal that she had been a victim of sex discrimination ; but the Secretary of State issued a certificate ( which the relevant statute said was ‘ conclusive ’ ) that she had been dismissed on grounds of national security . |
| 5 | Hanniah Lungu , hitherto Air Force Commander , was appointed Minister of Defence , succeeding Frederick Hapunda , who advocated a pluralist democracy and who had been dismissed on June 7 , officially for being " ineffective " in carrying out his duties . |
| 6 | According to da Motta Veiga , he had been dismissed on Oct. 19 [ see p. 37773 ] for resisting pressure from Faria [ see also above ] to lend US$20,000,000 and to supply $40,000,000 worth of oil to the Voe Canhedo business group , which owned a 48 per cent stake in the newly privatized VASP airline formerly controlled by the state of Sao Paulo [ see p. 37710 ] . |
| 7 | Dogan , a nephew of the President and a leading conservative in the ruling Motherland Party ( ANAP ) , was described by official sources as having been dismissed on the President 's orders " apparently over a rift in domestic politics " . |
| 8 | He stated that since April 25 officers and 600 other ranks had been dismissed on charges of indiscipline and involvement in criminal activities . |
| 9 | Massive speculation immediately arose over his death , particularly in the light of recent allegations that Maxwell and a senior Daily Mirror journalist , Nick Davies , had both had involvement with the Israeli secret intelligence service Mossad ; Davies had been dismissed on Oct. 29 on the grounds that he had lied in relation to a meeting which he was said to have had in 1985 with a United States arms dealer . |
| 10 | Richard H. Truly who had been dismissed on Feb. 13 . |
| 11 | Justice Minister Abdehamid Mahi-Bahi was reported to have been dismissed on Nov. 14 by the President of the High Committee of State , Ali Kafi , and replaced by Mohamed Teguia , President of the Supreme Court . |
| 12 | Among changes to the Council of State Secretaries [ see p. 38994 for previous government changes ] Mohammed Lamin Kamara became Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , replacing Ahmed Ramadan — Dumbuya who had been dismissed on Oct. 30 , . |
| 13 | More than 70 per cent of adult Albanians have been dismissed on ethnic grounds from jobs as various as toilet cleaners , museum curators and power plant directors . |
| 14 | The passage from Lord Lindley 's judgment that I have cited has been relied on in a number of subsequent cases but , before coming to them , I should refer to an earlier case , Bainbrigge v. Browne ( 1881 ) 18 Ch.D. 188 . |
| 15 | Against these considerations , there have to be weighed the practical and constitutional matters urged by the Attorney-General many of which have been relied on in the past in the courts in upholding the exclusionary rule . |
| 16 | These techniques have been relied on increasingly to evaluate vomiting infants . |
| 17 | Many of the cases which have from time to time been relied on in support of the High Trees doctrine are clearly examples of only the first principle . |
| 18 | Whilst the Purchaser can accept that the Memorandum has not been prepared with the precision of a legal document ( and accordingly the warranty may require some modification ) nevertheless the core of the information contained in it has been relied on by the Purchaser in agreeing to buy the Business and to the extent that it does not appear in any of the other information which is being warranted by the Vendor , it should be warranted in its own right . |
| 19 | The umpire procedure has often been relied on as an argument for a reference being an arbitration rather than an instance of expert determination ( or , in the older cases , a " valuation " ) but the courts have not seen the umpire procedure as an important factor , and the involvement of an umpire does not turn a reference to an expert into an arbitration . |
| 20 | It is very true that in one sense it must be implied that although there is no existing difference , still that a difference may arise between the parties : yet I think the distinction between an existing difference and one which may arise is a material one , and one which has properly been relied on in this case … |
| 21 | Fallon and Christopher Danaher , 33 — both from Wembley , Middlesex — had been stopped on suspicion of kerb crawling in West London . |
| 22 | Langbaurgh council 's tourism and leisure committee was told that Kart racing and other activities which had been been stopped on Sundays at the controversial Wheelbase Park in South Bank , Middlesbrough , was costing the cash-hit council over £20,000 . |
| 23 | On Easter Monday , Belgian police raided a ship equipped for incinerating waste at sea , the Matthias II , in Antwerp harbour , The raid followed reports in the Italian press that the waste , which contains 300 grams of dioxin ( TCDD ) had been incinerated on board a Dutch ship in the North Sea . |
| 24 | Although the inquiry had resulted in the successful prosecution of several former Reagan administration officials , convictions against the two highest-profile defendants — former National Security Advisor John M. Poindexter and his aide , Oliver L. North — had been overturned on appeal . |
| 25 | His background has been catalogued on many occasions and trawled by the man himself with the single-mindedness which characterizes all his causes . |
| 26 | 4.2 From January 1990 , new book acquisitions have been catalogued on a compute database which allows more extensive search facilities than is possible using the card indexes ; eg. truncated word search on title or series title , and using boolean operators to join search terms . |
| 27 | Had the plane been recalled on account of bad weather and plunged into the sea ? |
| 28 | 1982 ) is a revised version of a well-established North American test which has been restandardised on a sample of British children . |
| 29 | He joins a general strike by those who have been dispossessed on Urras and tells them : ‘ ( on Anarres ) we have nothing but our freedom . |
| 30 | They had been joined on the site by the police marksmen . |