Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Where leaching is of only moderate intensity , cations released during weathering can build up in the solutions moving through the weathering mantle and the formation of cation-bearing clays such as illite and smectite is favoured .
2 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 : —
3 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 …
4 ‘ 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 …
5 A French-lexified Creole is , or has been in common use in several other territories as well — Trinidad , Grenada and St Vincent among them .
6 Nothing men had said or written was to be trusted .
7 Incense or oil burner in the form of a Swastika adorning an ant-hill in which a Cobra or Nag is in residence .
8 Similarly if the property recovered or preserved is to be used as a home for the assisted person or her dependants enforcement of the charge can also be postponed .
9 cars ) in London Road , Mitcham , when they met on temporary track where relaying was in progress .
10 Where Boulestin never falters or misleads is in the sureness of his taste and the sobriety of his ingredients even when his recipes are new inventions .
11 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 .
12 Police think the man — who attacked a young woman in Brighton — is a transvestite or had been to a fancy dress party .
13 Virtually everybody there had been held on remand or had been to prison before , so knew how the prison ran .
14 Whatever was or had been between Matthew and Jenny was not yet resolved , Sara realised from Jenny 's preoccupation with the man .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 He fervently denied that he had been at the scene of the murders or had been in any way involved .
18 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 .
19 If he had a dubious work record , or had been in any kind of trouble , it often did n't matter .
20 We learned that there were still , or had been in the late 1950s , a fair number of working schooners in Nova Scotia .
21 Or had been in the right .
22 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 .
23 ‘ All three were working for INCUBUS — or had been until recently .
24 Because we can not question their authors , autobiographies can be tantalizingly elusive : but in compensation , what they omit or include is in itself evidence of the attitudes of the writers and of the readers they had in mind .
25 The only way to cancel a CLI command file whilst it is running or suspended is by pressing the and keys together .
26 It may have evoked a response in our personal nature , or have been in keeping with the mood of the moment .
27 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 ?
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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