Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] been [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly in section 1(3) : ‘ A person who is or has been a Crown servant … ’ |
| 2 | Nothing better illustrates the impossibility of separating off the individual personality from the wider social groups of which he or she is or has been a member , than the analysis of the development of conscience , that is , in Freud 's terminology , the superego . |
| 3 | It is best if this person can be someone who is or has been a teacher and who can therefore understand and evaluate production proposals that come up . |
| 4 | that he or she is or has been a director of a company which has at any time become insolvent ( whether while he or she was a director or subsequently ) ; and |
| 5 | ( a ) a director or member of the body is or has been a director or member of a recognised body which has been the subject of an order or direction under paragraphs 18 or 21 of Schedule 2 to the Act or the recognition of which has been revoked under Rule 10 of these Rules or has expired under Rule 9 of these Rules ; or |
| 6 | ( ii ) has had a bankruptcy order made against him or has made a composition or arrangement with his creditors or has made a proposal for a voluntary arrangement under Part VIII of the Insolvency Act 1986 or is or has been a director of a company in respect of which an administration order under Part II of the Insolvency Act 1986 or a winding-up order has been made or in respect of which a resolution for voluntary winding up has been passed or which has made a proposal for a voluntary arrangement under Part I of the Insolvency Act 1986 or in respect of which a person has been appointed receiver or administrative receiver ; or |
| 7 | ( c ) the powers conferred by Part II of Schedule 1 to the Solicitors Act 1974 have been exercised in respect of the body or in respect of a firm or recognised body of which a director or member of the body applying for recognition is or has been a principal or a director or member as the case may be ; or |
| 8 | Indeed no one who is , or has been a police officer can be appointed . |
| 9 | The sentence is not related to the offence so much as whether the defendant is homeless , jobless , or has been the subject of a care order , and this is more likely to have happened to black youth . |
| 10 | Section 222 of the TCGA 1992 , provides that gains accruing on the disposal of , or an interest in , a dwelling house which is or has been an individual 's only or main residence ( together with garden or grounds of up to half a hectare in extent or other extent appropriate for the reasonable enjoyment of the residence according to the size and character of the dwelling house ) throughout the period of ownership ( but disregarding the last 36 months of that period ( TCGA 1992 , s223 ) are exempt from capital gains tax . |
| 11 | This is what seems to have been behind the ‘ skinhead ’ or ‘ boot-boy ’ phenomenon that has been a part of football hooliganism . |
| 12 | It should be realised that the explosion of extreme-right support that has been a feature of most western European countries in greater or lesser degree throughout the 1980s is far from a totally homogeneous phenomenon . |
| 13 | The fast growth in the sixties gave an ‘ age-bump ’ that has been a bit of a problem , with about a third of the IBM population between 40 and 50 now , and a steady rise in the average age in this ‘ young men 's business ’ to about 38 in 1989 . |
| 14 | But the Leeds manager is almost certainly on the point of making a move — and the priority is the right-back position that has been a problem all season because of the absence of Mel Sterland . |
| 15 | But the Leeds manager is almost certainly on the point of making a move and the priority is the right-back position that has been a problem all season because of Mel Sterland 's absence . |
| 16 | Erm that has been a matter of serious discussion here and I know with some of the local authorities , and the fact of the matter is sir that we feel that if we look at the agricultural land quality of this county , if you were to have a criteria based policy which included the requirement that strategic sites should avoid good quality agricultural land erm you have n't got a policy at all because this is a county which has mostly its territory covered by good quality agricultural land especially in those parts of this county where strategic development might be expected to actually happen . |
| 17 | The British pride themselves on having developed a system of government that has been a model for the rest of the world . |
| 18 | At this stage , you know , we do n't have in our situation because we 're very poor any kind of gifts that can give a valid expression even as a token of the tremendous support you 've all given us over many many years and decades in Britain that has been a source of inspiration . |
| 19 | It was going to be used as a gardening shed for tomatoes but for me it has been the history and finding out about its past that has been the fun . |
| 20 | The Recommendations look to the future and describe what the author of the report thinks should be done about the problem that has been the subject of so much investigation . |
| 21 | All the cases of leukaemia in Thurso were centred on this estate , which lies just within 12.5 km of Dounreay , so that the excess there was much higher than in the next cumulative zone , which included the eastern half of the town ( within 16.6 km ) , a difference that has been the subject of much comment . |
| 22 | The Royal Mail 's new mountain bike lookalike is a million weary miles from the boneshaker that has been the mailman 's rusty steed . |
| 23 | However , The Times warned that the deal took Citizens into a much larger market in Massachusetts , ‘ a state that has been the graveyard of more banks than the federal authorities would care to remember . ’ |
| 24 | I join the House in expressing sympathy to the families who have been so griveously bereaved through this tragedy , a tragedy that has been the experience of so many of the British people in Ulster over the past 20 years . |
| 25 | If she is wise , she will soon get the message , and think to herself ‘ Oh well , so long as they 're happy , that 's all that matters ’ — an attitude that has been the saving grace of many mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationships . |
| 26 | Based on the following , delegates , I 've been lucky like many of you , to live in a country where I have had available to me a National Health Service that has been the envy of the world . |
| 27 | Looking back , I think it is probably that constant contact with our community of wood lovers that has been the highlight of my time at Woodworker . |
| 28 | THE French market bid a cheery au revoir to Edith Cresson , glad to see the back of a government that has been the source of much uncertainty , even outright damage , for the Paris market . |
| 29 | It is just this protection that has been the justification for farrowing pens . |
| 30 | Exploiting the nationalist rhetoric that has been the hallmark of the Congress , Mr Yeltsin promised to support the 25 million Russians living in other Commonwealth states . |