Example sentences of "[vb pp] or have [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ( In the police and civil service an estimated 80 per cent of Albanian employees had been dismissed or had resigned . )
2 Many other Jews had been enslaved or had run away .
3 The various pupils ’ study needs just listed include many skills that most school teachers would expect their pupils to have been taught or to have acquired in the process of their secondary education .
4 We are still attempting to persuade people that the figures they have been given or have invented are wrong and if we operate on the real figures there is no reason for mass closures of elderly persons homes and we are still attempting to make the refurbishment programme work as best we can to achieve the most we can in the shortest period and for the least money .
5 … the court … must act on the valuation unless there be proof of some mistake or improper motive … as if the valuer has valued something not included or had valued it on a wholly erroneous basis … from Lord Eldon 's judgment in Emery v Wase ( 1803 ) 8 Ves Jun 506 , where the difference between valuations of £4,000 and £6,000 was said to warrant judicial suspicion that the valuation had not been made with attention to accuracy : but the case was decided on the basis of the court 's duty to protect the property of married women .
6 start as we should AIM TO visit/contact every customer who has not responded or has responded negatively to ascertain the reasons why and endeavour
7 The Law Society will have powers to suspend a solicitor convicted of a serious crime from practice before taking disciplinary proceedings , and to intervene in the practices of solicitors who are incapacitated or have abandoned their practices .
8 Once the Ghosts have been defeated or have vanished thanks to instability , the mist disperses quickly .
9 The upshot of it is that the appellate court , where the matter is one of discretion , as this is of course , will not interfere with the discretion of the court below unless it considers that the court was plainly wrong or it has erred in principle , that it has taken into account something it should not have done or has failed to take into account something it should have done , and on that narrow basis I must proceed with this appeal .
10 In the US edition he wonders if ‘ this man … has been bribed or has used improper influence in any way ’ .
11 ASSURED TENANCIES — residential tenancies in properties that are newly built or have had at least £5000 spent on improving them in the two years before they were first let .
12 Staff doing jobs which required perfect health would be relocated or have to quit the service .
13 Many churches were built but almost all are ruined or have disappeared .
14 Some people argue that everyone who claims to have seen or to have photographed this animal has been either drunk , deceived by a log or interested in promoting the Scottish tourist industry .
15 We can propose as an initial distinction the following : on the one hand the variable relations between ‘ cultural producers ’ ( a deliberately neutral if abstract term ) and recognizable social institutions ; on the other hand , the variable relations in which ‘ cultural producers ’ have been organized or have organized themselves , their formations .
16 The lack of evidence of greater efficacy and acceptability of serotonin reuptake inhibitors means that their adoption as the drugs of choice in major depression may be premature , although they may have a role in subgroups of patients in whom other treatments are contraindicated or have failed .
17 Under the amended election law the president was provided with the power to appoint new deputies to replace those who had died or had left the Assembly since the last elections in 1972 .
18 Control children who were found to have died or to have moved out of the study area before their matched case had cancer diagnosed were replaced .
19 I was back in the post office at Adrar , empty-handed and imagining Joan to have died or to have found another man .
20 So far the process of grief that has been outlined is how people might react to the loss of someone they love , whether that person has died or has gone out of their life for good .
21 Moreover the exception to the nemo dat principle discussed in Chapter 11 will be significant here especially if it is considered that the dealer has bought or has agreed to buy the goods under s9 of FA 1889 .
22 To the best of our knowledge and belief there are no events or new information which have occurred or have become known subsequent to [ date of last audited financial statements ] that would reasonably necessitate adjustments to the Memorandum .
23 If you are offered or have seen brooches of this description , please contact me .
24 And if anybody 's been away and has got or has got missing sheets I 've got spare sheets down here .
25 To put it more crudely , those students who are male , white , middle-class and Christian , will very rarely have their views challenged or have to make sympathetic adjustments as a consequence .
26 Let us imagine that I have the misfortune to be born or to have settled in Portugal ; being an enlightened philosopher I dislike the institutions there ; should I try to change them by political subversion ?
27 Some have done well and now own the businesses in which they were once employed or have opened their own .
28 Our intention was to ensure that genuine cases could be dealt with properly , such as those where the claimant had contributed or had produced fresh evidence that was relevant to a particular decision .
29 To some extent the technology people are to blame for being too optimistic but they realised that if they spelled out the true uncertainty ( even if they knew it ) there would have been no investment at all , In the end the project is abandoned or has become so expensive that it can never be profitable .
30 The settlor in relation to a settlement includes any person who has provided or has undertaken to provide funds directly or indirectly for the purposes of the settlement .
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