Example sentences of "been [vb pp] or [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the vehicle is 30 years old they have probably been repainted or changed in the past unless your L.R. was a fire engine . |
| 2 | Courts may more readily accept that fiduciary duties have been modified or excluded in the context of a commercial agreement between parties of equal status28 than where the customer is inexperienced . |
| 3 | Enter A to view all process models which have been installed or deinstalled since the specified start date . |
| 4 | The pro-democracy student demonstrations subsided , but the issues raised had not been addressed or resolved by the party . |
| 5 | Everything we say or write is connected both with things which have been said or written in the past , and with things which may be said or written in response to it in the future . |
| 6 | On arrival at Smolensk , our peasant soldier discovers that all the equipment of his unit has been embezzled or stolen from the luggage-van . |
| 7 | That section is in the following terms : ( 1 ) Every one who by words spoken or written or by conduct represents himself , or who knowingly suffers himself to be represented , as a partner in a particular firm , is liable as a partner to any one who has on the faith of any such representation given credit to the firm , whether the representation has or has not been made or communicated to the person so giving credit by or with the knowledge of the apparent partner making the representation or suffering it to be made . |
| 8 | The only real element of surprise lay in the fact that little had been seen or heard of the extremists since the Republicans ' dramatic rise on the West German political scene in 1989 . |
| 9 | Little has been seen or heard of the V of R this year , but apparently there have been something of an upheaval in the Company at the end of the season and few people are now employed . |
| 10 | One lawyer at the French court observed that it had ‘ never been seen or known for the kingdom of France to be subjected to the government of the king of England ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ The clauses probably have been misused or overused as a tool . |
| 12 | But none of these principles could have been exploited or pursued in the ways in which they were had there not been tacit approval and support on the part of the state . |
| 13 | In some cemeteries an annual or regular service is held to which all the families and friends of people who have been buried or cremated in the last year are invited . |
| 14 | The stock is , to the extent that it has not already been used or sold in the ordinary and normal course of trading in good condition and working order and capable of being used or sold in the ordinary and normal course of trading . |
| 15 | Their perseverance revealed the obvious : needs and capacities continue to change after a person has been de-hospitalized or moved from the parental home to a group home — and the developmental role has therefore to be seen as a permanent not a temporary one . |
| 16 | If our beliefs have never been challenged or put to the test we may doubt their validity now . |
| 17 | Some have criminal convictions , all say they have been cautioned or warned by the police several times . |
| 18 | An amendment then added unless the ball has been played or touched by the other side . |
| 19 | The present tenants of what is now known as John Dakyn House , renovated and restored and comprising six modern flats , have like the original tenants to have been born or lived in the parish for ten years , be of retirement age or invalids . |
| 20 | Unlike the varied operations and sequences of the unique ‘ one-off ’ products of jobbing production , the products of batch production are dealt with systematically in lots , or batches , only moving on to the next operation , when each lot has been machined or processed in the current operation . |
| 21 | The charge means that the Board is entitled to recover the shortfall on its expenditure out of the property that has been recovered or preserved by the assisted party in the proceedings . |
| 22 | Those who protest have been arrested or threatened by the Army but the campaign for ‘ free trade ’ continues . |
| 23 | ‘ In reasoning or inventiveness , little has been gained or lost in the build-up of the human species during the last five millennia . |
| 24 | Only the original ball can be used , and must have only been touched or handled by the player throwing in . |
| 25 | Like all good selectors , they had not been swayed or influenced by the most recent of events and clearly stuck to a game plan which may well have been devised before the 1992–93 season even commenced . |
| 26 | Marlin had been as solicitous as an erring husband since the attack , calling her from his office every hour or so , and several times suggesting that she might want to talk with an analyst , or at very least with one of his many friends who 'd been assaulted or mugged on the streets of Manhattan . |
| 27 | Mail relating to the mail messages for the current user , the New figure shows the number of unread mail messages and the Old figure shows the number of mail messages which are still retained in LIFESPAN but which have already been printed or read by the user . |
| 28 | — relating to the mail messages for the current user , the New figure shows the number of unread mail messages and the Old figure shows the number of mail messages which are still retained in LIFESPAN but which have already been printed or read by the user , eg. 13 new messages and 1 old message . |
| 29 | A crime may be recorded as cleared by the police for a variety of reasons : where an individual has been charged or summonsed for the offence ( whether or not they are found guilty ! ) ; where an individual admits an offence and receives a formal caution from a senior police officer ; where an individual convicted of an offence asks , before sentence for other offences to be ‘ taken into consideration ’ ( TICs ) ; where forces officially take ‘ no further action ’ and the offence is written off . |
| 30 | Leaving aside publications in parts , which are a special problem , books which should contain advertisements can not be reckoned complete without them , so that , if they have been removed or discarded in a rebinding , the value suffers considerably , even though the text is perfect . |