A characterization of the space of symmetric Laurent polynomials of type (BC)n, which vanish on a certain set of submanifolds, is given by using the Koornwinder–Macdonald polynomials. A similar characterization was given previously for symmetric polynomials of type An by using the Macdonald polynomials. We use a new method which exploits the duality relation. The method simplifies a part of the proof in the An case.