Example sentences of "[conj] have been [art] [noun sg] " 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the subject of an order or direction under paragraphs 18 or 21 of Schedule 2 to the Act or the recognition of which has been revoked under Rule 10 of these Rules or has expired under Rule 9 of these Rules ; or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 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 .
9 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 .
10 This chap with the leg or something who wants to see you said something about being or having been a patient , but not being here as one now , and as he 's loaded with flowers for you and I did n't know how Old Red would take it , I used the sterilizer . ’
11 Impoundments that went beyond that and involved policy change had occurred in the past , but these were either justified under the Commander-in-Chief clause in the Constitution , or had been the subject of consultation with congressional leaders .
12 One highly ‘ political ’ Lord Chancellor — like Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone — can , if he chooses , make a considerable impact on judicial lawmaking at the highest level but , for this to be so , it is not necessary that he should have held political office or have been a Member of Parliament or a law officer .
13 These are extreme cases — yet , if you 've been involved in a disaster or have been a victim of crime ( Victim Support 's specialist area ) you may find yourself suffering from what has now been identified as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder .
14 Or have been an associate for four years and a member for six years
15 No counsellor can assume that ‘ good ’ relationships either are or have been the norm within the family , and idealistic pictures of family life as a reciprocally loving , mutually committed and concerned relationship should be abandoned .
16 This is what seems to have been behind the ‘ skinhead ’ or ‘ boot-boy ’ phenomenon that has been a part of football hooliganism .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 The British pride themselves on having developed a system of government that has been a model for the rest of the world .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 The Royal Mail 's new mountain bike lookalike is a million weary miles from the boneshaker that has been the mailman 's rusty steed .
28 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 . ’
29 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 .
30 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 .
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