Example sentences of "had be in force [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the journalists ' evidence , if the directives had been in force during the previous twelve months the effect on air time would have been minimal . |
| 2 | After the er Police Act nineteen sixty four had been in force for some years and when the government of the day which you supporters in the nineteen seventies and later , tried to erm modify it in order to er make a dovetail with local government reforms which we supported . |
| 3 | After reviewing the procedure which had been in force since 1983 , he referred to the decision of the Divisional Court in Ex parte Handscomb and said that he accepted the conclusion of that court : ‘ that there are strong arguments for carrying out this consultation exercise as soon as practicable following the imposition of a discretionary life sentence . ’ |
| 4 | A Swiss ban on night driving by lorries had been in force since 1933 . |
| 5 | On May 17 the Legislative Yuan approved a motion to repeal the draconian Statute of Punishment for Sedition , which had been in force since 1949 . |
| 6 | The state of emergency had been in force since 1987 and covered the 10 predominantly Kurdish provinces . |
| 7 | A ban on certain political parties , which had been in force since the time of the 1980 military coup , was removed by Cabinet decree on July 3 . |
| 8 | The immediately following articles give the newly independent State the right to succeed to any treaty which had been in force in its territory , regardless of the wishes of any other party to the treaty . |
| 9 | The SNC agreed to contact the UN Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , requesting him to send personnel to control the ceasefire which had been in force in Cambodia since early May . |
| 10 | A ceasefire had been in force in Cambodia since May 1 [ see pp. 38194-95 ] . |