Example sentences of "[conj] have [been] [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The courts have used regulatory rules in determining whether an obligation under the general law exists or has been broken in a number of ways . |
| 2 | possess any secret official code word , or password , or sketch , plan , model , article , note , document or information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or anything in such a place , or which has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act , or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Her Majesty or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who is or has been employed under a person who holds or has held such an office or contract — [ and who ] ( a ) communicates the code word , pass word , sketch , plan , model , article , note , document , or information to any person other than a person to whom he is authorised to communicate it , or a person to whom it is in the interest of the State his duty to communicate it , or ( aa ) uses the information in his possession for the benefit of any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State , or ( b ) retains the sketch , plan , model , article , note , or document in his possession or control when he has no right to retain it or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it , or fails to comply with all directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof , or … |
| 3 | In the case of psychoanalytic theory , there needs to be an understanding , first , of an undistorted version of the theory as stated by Freud , and then various changes in the theory can be seen as either having been made to attain greater rational consistency , or to incorporate new ‘ findings ’ which refute some of the previous assumptions , or to have been made as a result of social pressures on theory-makers eager to find a role for their theories in the society . |
| 4 | It was concerned with the story that Archimedes had found a way of discovering if a crown made for King Hiero of Syracuse was in fact of pure gold , as it was supposed to be , or had been adulterated with a cheaper metal . |
| 5 | S 459 of the Companies Act 1985 provides that if a company 's affairs are being or have been conducted in a manner which is unfairly prejudicial to the company 's interests , then the members may obtain relief through the courts . |
| 6 | When interest group activity is added to electoral pressure , the ‘ shame ’ attached to being held responsible for social dissensus , lead to changes which may have been a voluntary response or have been supervised by a state responding to legitimate protest . |
| 7 | YOU ca n't enjoy good beer if the pubs that serve them are badly run or have been modernised in a vulgar and insensitive fashion . |
| 8 | And you can line up a special treat to celebrate when the battle is won — using the money that has been saved on a holiday or to buy yourself something special . |
| 9 | How , she asks , can we account for evil in a world that has been created by a good God ? |
| 10 | In a recent review of Germany 's environmental performance , the OECD criticised the confusion in Germany 's definition of waste that has been caused by a desire to encourage recycling . |
| 11 | There is one other country that has been floated as a serious contender — Japan . |
| 12 | Is it not a fact that the very serious death threat that has been made against a British citizen — a death threat made by someone who is , in effect , the leader of a foreign country with which we have diplomatic relations is of such importance that we should have a statement at the earliest opportunity ? |
| 13 | As noted earlier , the findings reported here flow from an international comparative research programme that has been sustained over a seven-year period , beginning in 1983 . |
| 14 | Privately , New York dealers say the Ikeda Gallery is loading works purchased by Japanese investors and dealers back into the U.S. market , part of a trend that has been observed for a year now . |
| 15 | erm , this is a , a case which er deals with er the issue of the suspension of a measure based upon community law , whether a national court , when a measure has been based upon community law has power to suspend it , now my Lord the er issue in was erm involved er the er decision of er the German government er to give effect to er a community regulation in the sugar sector which er required er that levies should be er obtained from sugar companies , so it was a very direct er implementation of community law erm in that sense different to the matter before your Lordship , but we rely on it by analogy and in , in this case my Lord er you will see it 's in the supplementary bundle of authorities , the extra bundle because , before your Lordship , in that case your Lordship will see er between paragraphs fifteen and thirty three er the er European court indicating that where a measure that has been based upon a community er , er law is challenged before a national court that the national court er should er only er engage in the er , er suspension of such a measure , erm if there is serious doubt er this is erm my Lord er at er paragraph twenty three of the case er and we say that er if you look at the criterions they are not dissimilar from those that have been adopted by the House of Lords as a matter of English law in the case |
| 16 | It is an authoritative review of the research that has been done on a fascinating fauna . |
| 17 | FOLLOWING an elderly taxi in London or heavy truck up a country hill , both spewing clouds of acrid smoke , makes it hard to believe that diesel exhausts can be no more harmful than those from a petrol engine that has been fitted with a three-way catalytic converter . |
| 18 | I think er the original plan would have envisaged er a very high proportion of that work having been converted to a fixed price at this point in the programme because according to the original programme not only would the aircraft have flown but we would be entering production investment at this stage and we would there be be fairly confident about the er maturity of the design , however the programme has proceeded much more slowly than originally planned and the amount of er the price that has been converted to a fixed price is indeed quite modest er we have in fact I think only converted eight of the price packages to a fixed price er basis so far . |
| 19 | From this high moral ground the army had expected to challenge the record of human-rights abuses during its 17 years in power that has been compiled by a ‘ commission for truth and reconciliation ’ made up of seven lawyers from across the political spectrum . |
| 20 | It is his type that has been projected as a desirable up to the present time , although I feel that recently , Rottweilers in Germany have become slightly lighter in build and longer in the loin , a very workmanlike animal , designed for Schutzhund work . |
| 21 | They have a very strong smell that has been likened to a variety of disagreeable substances , from stale sweat to rotten onions . |
| 22 | In Fig 36 an example is given of a holding pattern that has been completed in a time of 4 mins 28 secs . |
| 23 | Such concentrations of multiple deprivation contain their own built-in momentum that has been characterized as a ‘ cycle of poverty ’ ( Raynor et al. , 1974 ) . |
| 24 | Clearly , the specialists who see most cases are either venereologists or dermatologists , but many 's the case of secondary syphilis that has been treated by a general practitioner or physician with a variety of ointments or creams to great effect — syphilis having the doctor-flattering attribute of ‘ getting better ’ whatever the treatment . |
| 25 | Plans are afoot to dismantle the Control Tower brick by brick and reassemble it on a seven acre plot of land that has been acquired as a shrine to the famous musician . |
| 26 | Moreover , almost everyone already has a firm mental picture of the American police that has been acquired from a lifetime 's film- and television-viewing . |
| 27 | The application of such an effect can change the intracellular structure of a cell that has been transformed by a cancer-causing agent , even in its latent stage . |
| 28 | Here , perhaps , green consumerism can try to get us to eat tuna that has been caught in a wildlife-friendly way ! |
| 29 | And whereas a womb that has been occupied by a Future Buddha is like the shrine of a temple , and can never be occupied or used again , therefore it was that the mother of the Future Buddha died when he was seven days old , and was reborn in the Tusita heaven . |
| 30 | Visual difference on the same surface between a part that has been cleaned by a standard technique and the untouched area . |