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

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1	was promoted to the Chair in Accountancy and Finance and a number of vacancies in have been filled or are in the process of being filled .
2	The appearance in the Tripoli courtroom of the two suspects , Abdel Baset Ali Mohammed al-Megrahi and al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah , disproved persistent US suggestions that they had been hidden or even executed by the Libyan authorities .
3	( In the police and civil service an estimated 80 per cent of Albanian employees had been dismissed or had resigned . )
4	Her concerned employers had referred her to a doctor , who had put her on the contraceptive pill but , as was normal practice , she had not been examined or questioned .
5	Meanwhile , many of the largest US purse-seiners had been re-flagged or sold to foreign investors .
6	1 Where the person bringing an action to recover land , or some person through whom he claims , has been in possession of the land , and has while entitled to the land been dispossessed or discontinued his possession , the right of action shall be treated as having accrued on the date of the dispossession or discontinuance .
7	He had had a long and tiring journey , flights from Frankfurt , Heathrow and Glasgow all having been delayed or cancelled .
8	ask and answer questions about what has been heard or read — how characters feel , their motives , the endings of stories ;
9	( 1978 ) have pointed out , in its strong form , the clausal hypothesis is that interpretation of a clause does not begin until the last word in the clause has been heard or read .
10	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 .
11	Developments had either been realised or were at least in the advanced stages of negotiation in the bulk of its area .
12	If the trustee is unable to declare any or any further dividend , he must give notice to this effect to creditors , and the notice must also contain a statement to the effect that no funds have been realised or that all funds realised have been distributed or used to meet the expenses of the administration ( r 11.7 ) .
13	Since this tactic came into operation in September 1987 all founding members of the banana trade union movement have been assassinated or subjected to assassination attempts .
14	As many as 60 political parties were believed to have been legalized or freshly created during the 13 months following the publication in December 1989 of the draft joint constitution for a unified Yemen .
15	After he had been withdrawn or expelled from St John 's College , Grace sent him to the local government school , Highlands North .
16	No withdrawal of deposits may be made prior to maturity , save by closure of your TESSA , in which event Midland will transfer the funds to another interest bearing account and be obliged to deduct from your TESSA and to pay direct to the Inland Revenue , an amount equal to Basic Rate Income Tax prevailing at the date of closure on all interest accrued on your TESSA whether it has been withdrawn or not .
17	In every case the accused teacher suffered a lengthy period of suspension before being told that the allegation had been withdrawn or that no proceedings would be instituted against them .
18	She only had about fifty pence left from the money she had borrowed from her stepfather the day before , but she hoped that the young Italian barman , who fancied her , had not yet been sacked or moved on and would give her a margarita , free .
19	Mr replied that is what Mr was asking the other to do , that is to hold their hand and to enter into negotiations , now I fully appreciate that erm doctor feels strongly that the defendants have not been negotiating in good faith and have been simply dragging matters out for his benefit , now when I say that I 'm simply saying what I understand to be doctor view , I 'm certainly not suggesting that I 'm finding as a fact , but that was the decision , indeed I could n't cos I 've not heard all the evidence on this matter not as Mr to address me on that one , it seems to me with all respect to doctor missions on this matter that if there has been any dragging of feet or other improper conduct of either the defendants in connection with er they remain on in the premises and not paying what doctor would consider to be a full and proper rent or if there has been problem about their not disclosing documents when they should have done , the position is that doctor has er by making an appropriate application to the court , for maybe the appropriate relief arising out of the facts which he can establish , but that is not in general a matter which erm the court should go into on the question of taxation , it 's not , th this particular taxation of costs is a taxation as I understand it that are formally to the debt of the order of Mr Justice and there is thus no question of the court having to consider the question when the those tax those costs have been swollen or increased in any way by reason of spinning out negotiations whether to run up costs or otherwise , that simply does n't arising it seems to me in this case that maybe a matter which may arise possibly at some future date , though I would hope it would not do so , but er so far as the costs down to the end of the trial of the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one are concerned , it seems to me the fact that the parties maybe negotiating subsequently to deter to rece to resolve the outstanding issue , it 's not a matter which really goes to the question of erm what is the proper amount to allow for taxation of costs which have already been incurred , before these negotiations erm we do n't the figure of the costs appears to have been effectively agreed between the solicitors at forty two thousand pounds , the plaintiff solicitors made it quite clear that they were seeking interest , this was clear in apparently of nineteen ninety two , but this held their hand , er it seems to me the reason they held their hand rather than indicate it was because the defendant through his solicitor was asking them to do so and it seems to me that Mr was acting very sensibly in the defendants interest , because if in fact they had gone ahead and taxed their costs there and then the position would simply be that there would of been an award for taxation , in order , there would be a taxation resulting in an order for payment of of some cost probably in the region of forty two thousand pounds and er that order would itself carry interest under the judgements act , it does n't seem to me it can be sensibly said that erm any interest has to be in any way increased by reason of this delay and it seems to me that erm if one looks at order sixty two and twenty eight er certainly under paragraph B two erm there 's a reference there to any additional interest payable under section seventeen because of the failure on the May , erm , it does n't seem to me that the effect of what has in fact incurred , in this case has been , caused any additional interest to be paid and er it seems to me the only best that I can see in the evidence before me to , which would enable the court to erm , conclude that there should be a disallowance of interest would be as I say because the plaintiffs appear not to have perfected the order for the payment of perfectively two years , just over two years , erm it seems to me however that , that on balance probably it simply a matter of oversight and even if it had been perfected it would n't of made as I guess the least bit of difference to the way the negotiations er proceeded and accordingly I take the view that erm there are no grounds for disallowing interest from either the plaintiffs bill of costs or the defendants bill of costs , accordingly erm to allow the defendants appeal in preparation to the disallowance of costs er interest and to dismiss the defendants appeal for application in relation to an additional period , P sixty of course disallowed , I also propose to dismiss the sum of , the appeal by the plaintiffs from the refusal of taxing master to disallow the interest on the defendants bill of costs .
20	They say that no need has been proven or is ever likely to be .
21	Since deregulation of bus services some routes may have been altered or replaced .
22	Many other Jews had been enslaved or had run away .
23	Erm but what we would say at this stage , is that there does n't seem any rationale behind the discounts that have been applied by by the County Council , indeed we have a situation in Hambleton district , where there is a seventy percent discount , erm which does n't seem to us to have been explained or justified .
24	[ No shares or other securities of the Company have been registered or otherwise qualified for sale or resale under Federal or State laws in the United States of America or Canada .
25	You have tried to either update a product which has already been registered or to register a product which has already been registered .
26	Much — if not all — of the technology necessary for Ecotopia to function has already been developed or is in the process of being developed .
27	His Lordship accepted Mr Bayliss 's submission that Order 5 , rule 5 did not give power to make an order for contribution in favour of a representative defendant against a member of the class which he was named as representing ; and that the only power it gave was that of giving leave to a person , in whose favour a judgment or order had been given or made , to enforce the judgment or order against a person not a party to the proceedings who was bound by the judgment or order .
28	It would be rash to make the conclusions of this chapter depend absolutely on exactly the account of certain " if " statements that has now been given or intimated .
29	The examiner is quite entitled to set questions on any topic in the syllabus regardless of whether a lecture on it has been given or not and you should look out for the " old foxes " .
30	Aitken did not tell Fraser of any suggestion of confidentiality since , as he later affirmed , he did not believe that any undertaking had been given or asked for .