Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 … |
| 2 | A French-lexified Creole is , or has been in common use in several other territories as well — Trinidad , Grenada and St Vincent among them . |
| 3 | Incense or oil burner in the form of a Swastika adorning an ant-hill in which a Cobra or Nag is in residence . |
| 4 | cars ) in London Road , Mitcham , when they met on temporary track where relaying was in progress . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He fervently denied that he had been at the scene of the murders or had been in any way involved . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If he had a dubious work record , or had been in any kind of trouble , it often did n't matter . |
| 10 | We learned that there were still , or had been in the late 1950s , a fair number of working schooners in Nova Scotia . |
| 11 | Or had been in the right . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It may have evoked a response in our personal nature , or have been in keeping with the mood of the moment . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ( 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 . |
| 23 | Although caddying was in decline after 1950 ( the year trolleys are first recorded on the course ) , the Club considered engaging a new caddie master after his retirement , but it seems did not do so . |
| 24 | For the first episode , the house that crumbled was in a real North London street designated for demolition . |
| 25 | A marvellous opportunity to visit a forge that has been in the same family for five generations to see a working blacksmith . |
| 26 | ETA is passionately campaigning and investigating to try and maintain the total ban ; a ban that has been in place barely enough time for a baby elephant to have been conceived and born . |
| 27 | A government that has been in office for 13 years is bound to be judged overwhelmingly on its record . |
| 28 | What we are staring at for the moment is a ‘ permanent ’ Conservative ascendancy , rooted in the Thatcher ‘ revolution ’ and the sea-change in the political culture that has been in progress throughout the eighties . |
| 29 | ETA is passionately campaigning and investigating to try and maintain the total ban ; a ban that has been in place barely enough time for a baby elephant to have been conceived and born . |
| 30 | Lyn de Alwis , Director of the Sri Lanka National Parks , had a secret weapon , although it is debatable whether you can call a facility that has been in existence for several thousand years ‘ secret ’ . |