Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Company Securities ( Insider Dealing Act 1985 ) provides that a person ( ‘ the buyer ’ ) who knowingly obtains information , directly or indirectly , from an individual ( ‘ the insider ’ ) who is or has been during the preceding six months ‘ knowingly connected ’ with the company commits a criminal offence if the buyer deals on a recognised Stock Exchange in securities of that company when the buyer : — |
| 2 | 4 Phrases and words In Rex Stewart etc. v Parker [ 1988 ] IRLR 483 the court was asked to consider a non-solicitation clause which related to any person " … who to your knowledge is or has been during the period of your employment a customer of the company … |
| 3 | ‘ A person who is or has been … a member of the security and intelligence services … is guilty of an offence if without lawful authority he discloses any information … which is or has been in his possession by virtue of his position as a member of any of those services … |
| 4 | A French-lexified Creole is , or has been in common use in several other territories as well — Trinidad , Grenada and St Vincent among them . |
| 5 | The conduct had also to be intended to provoke a breach of the peace or to have been of such a nature as to have been likely to have occasioned such a breach . |
| 6 | Police think the man — who attacked a young woman in Brighton — is a transvestite or had been to a fancy dress party . |
| 7 | Virtually everybody there had been held on remand or had been to prison before , so knew how the prison ran . |
| 8 | Whatever was or had been between Matthew and Jenny was not yet resolved , Sara realised from Jenny 's preoccupation with the man . |
| 9 | She tended to do it of late years by proxy , as it were : she was good — or had been before the advent of the Reverend Hereward Marr — at manning the tea-urn at the church social . |
| 10 | This is a parish in the counties of Argyll , Inverness-shire , Ross and Cromarty , Sutherland , Caithness and the northern islands where there was in 1886 , or had been in the previous 80 years , holdings of arable land with rights of common pasture . |
| 11 | He fervently denied that he had been at the scene of the murders or had been in any way involved . |
| 12 | Anyone who 'd paid money for their dog , or did n't know where it had been , should take it to the god in Lāmri to be blessed and cured : and if anyone had been bitten recently , or had been in contact with the rabid dog , they too should see that god . |
| 13 | If he had a dubious work record , or had been in any kind of trouble , it often did n't matter . |
| 14 | We learned that there were still , or had been in the late 1950s , a fair number of working schooners in Nova Scotia . |
| 15 | Or had been in the right . |
| 16 | The present superintendent estimated at this time that about half of all girls coming there had never really had any home life , or had been in care , and believed that this cycle would repeat itself : " as high as 85 per cent of these babies , it 's going to happen to them . |
| 17 | ‘ All three were working for INCUBUS — or had been until recently . |
| 18 | It may have evoked a response in our personal nature , or have been in keeping with the mood of the moment . |
| 19 | So I do n't know if any of you are old enough to have worked in factories or have been in any in the services ? |
| 20 | After the close of pleadings in an action begun by writ there must be discovery by the parties to the action of the documents which are or have been in their possession , custody or power relating to matters in question in the action . |
| 21 | I do n't know the value attaching to the stamps on those envelopes but if they are or have been in your possession you would be well advised to make a full statement of your involvement . |
| 22 | Fourteen days after a Proof has been allowed , each party is required to intimate to his opponents a list of documents which are or have been in his possession relating to the matters in dispute in the action . |
| 23 | After such period of adjustment as the Court may have allowed , the Record is closed and within fourteen days thereafter , each party is required to provide his opponent with ‘ a list of documents which are or have been in his possession or control relating to the matters in dispute in the action ’ . |
| 24 | It is of great significance that most of the NICs are presently or have been in recent times one-party states , not necessarily totalitarian in the classic sense , but certainly lacking in most of the genuinely pluralistic institutions that characterize advanced industrial societies . |
| 25 | Any party requiring general discovery may give notice in writing to any other party requiring him to make discovery by list of the documents , relating to any question in the proceedings , which may be or have been in his possession or power . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) Subject to para ( 3 ) ( below ) , the parties must make discovery by serving lists of documents and ; ( a ) subject to sub-para ( c ) , each party must make and serve on every other party a list of documents which are or have been in his possession , custody or power relating to any matter in question between them in the action ; ( b ) the court may , on application ; ( i ) order that discovery under this paragraph shall be limited to such documents or classes of documents only , or as to such only of the matters in question , as may be specified in the order , or ( ii ) if satisfied that discovery by all or any of the parties is not necessary , order that there shall be no discovery of documents by any or all of the parties ; and the court shall make such an order if and so far as it is of opinion that discovery is not necessary either for disposing fairly of the action or for saving costs ; ( c ) where liability is admitted or in an action for personal injuries arising out of a road accident , discovery shall be limited to disclosure of any documents relating to the amount of damages ; ( d ) the provisions of Ord 14 of these rules relating to inspection of documents shall apply where discovery is made under this paragraph as it applies where discovery is made under that Order . |
| 27 | ‘ There is a need for fish that has been on the market a couple of days . |
| 28 | He much prefers to drive something that has been on the market for two or three years , reasoning that most of the initial problems should have been ironed out . |
| 29 | The main point of contention , according to one of the shops visited is the distinction between what is a ‘ genuine ’ sale item ( i.e. one that has been on sale in the shop at full price for not less than 28 consecutive days during the preceding six months ) and a ‘ special purchase ’ , such as a remainder or bargain book . |
| 30 | SongWright 5.1 is the latest version of a package that has been on the market for several years . |