Example sentences of "or have been [verb] in " 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 | Quantity in this sense , duration , is what musicians and musical composers are continually concerned with ; and so it is not surprising that poets of this way of thinking , like Pound and Bunting , show themselves avidly interested in poetry which has been , not at a level of theory but as a fact of performance , intimately associated with music : poetry that has been set , or has been written in the hope of being set , to music . |
| 3 | Certiorari quashes a decision which is found to be invalid because it is outside the powers granted to the court or tribunal ( ultra vires ) , or has been given in proceedings in which the principles of natural justice were not observed , or where there has been an error of law on the face of the record . |
| 4 | Or has been going in the past , and violence obviously can result in serious injury or at least death . |
| 5 | ( Common sense reminds us that given the distribution of women in employment in Edinburgh , most of the mothers probably were or had been employed in some form of domestic service or in the clothing industry ; but in what proportions ? ) |
| 6 | ‘ The builder had either spent three weeks cleaning it or had been kept in pristine condition , ’ says Darren . |
| 7 | Enraptured by the celluloid screen , we revelled in the romance that had been denied to us , or had been put in cold storage ‘ for the duration , . |
| 8 | Some memoirs , too , take us much further than official material ; those of de Gaulle are a case in point , while British official documents which in their original form remained hidden from the historian by the thirty-year rule were printed in the books of Winston Churchill and Eden , or have been unearthed in private collections by scholars able to disregard the consequences of publication . |
| 9 | In a number of instances , actual boundary stones remain , or have been recorded in the recent past . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Whether you have just moved into a new home or have been living in the same place for years the main thing is that you are alone and you must make your home your pride , your joy , your sanctuary . |
| 12 | In case you had n't figured it out already , or have been vacationing in the Amazon rain forest , ACE is well and truly dead . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | About 90% of rural adults in Mexico have friends or relatives who are or have been working in the United States . |