Example sentences of "[been] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But since the early 1980s , chilled fresh pasta has also been on the market , from large and small suppliers operating on both national and regional bases . |
| 2 | there has been hardly any research on the police compared with the large output of critical scholarship on industry , commerce , the civil service , the health service and education … what little direct research there has been on the police has scarcely begun to ask such fundamental questions as what is the police force and what is it doing . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've not been on the moon , ’ he added , without any irony , simply as a statement of fact . |
| 4 | ‘ Think how long BBC2 and Channel 4 have been on the air and they still have barely 10 per cent of the British audience . |
| 5 | Problems with short weights are being tackled and if fish has been on the market overnight , the person buying it is aware . |
| 6 | ‘ There is a need for fish that has been on the market a couple of days . |
| 7 | But , when asked in 1947 to replace an old dirty power station that had been on the site since 1891 , he soon forgot such idealism and , like any architect , was glad to have the job . |
| 8 | 14 October , 1969 TONY BENN records in his diary : ‘ In the evening Caroline and I went to Number 10 for a dinner for the American astronauts , the first three men to have been on the moon . |
| 9 | At the time , the hobby had been on the wane for years . |
| 10 | My last bath had been on the evening of 4th June ; it was now 17th July . |
| 11 | I know for sure if he had n't been on the scene and it was only Colonel Vaughan and myself , I would most likely have said . |
| 12 | Since 1914 millions of Russians had been on the move — four to five million away from the advancing armies of the Central Powers ; at least twelve million fleeing into exile during and after the Revolution ; the largest land army in the world manoeuvring , dying , and deserting from the longest front-line in history — to give the major examples alone , with very approximate numbers . |
| 13 | New methods will come , no doubt , with the fruition of that research which the Home Secretary has urged and supported ; but we can not even claim to be using existing methods , when 7,550 prisoners are sleeping tonight three in a cell , and when policies which , but for the war , would have been on the statute book in 1939 , and have already been on the statute book for half a generation , have hardly begun to be carried into effect for lack of premises . |
| 14 | New methods will come , no doubt , with the fruition of that research which the Home Secretary has urged and supported ; but we can not even claim to be using existing methods , when 7,550 prisoners are sleeping tonight three in a cell , and when policies which , but for the war , would have been on the statute book in 1939 , and have already been on the statute book for half a generation , have hardly begun to be carried into effect for lack of premises . |
| 15 | Opinion , certainly overt opinion , has been on the side of the university disorder . |
| 16 | University opinion has been on the side of it , and public opinion has been on the side of it . |
| 17 | University opinion has been on the side of it , and public opinion has been on the side of it . |
| 18 | She had been on the very edge of the steep hills which surround the basin in which Orvieto sits ; and the basin itself was alive and moving , swirling with smoke , with smoky white mists which filled it almost to the brim . |
| 19 | This central point in Marx 's and Engels 's work has been on the whole supported by later anthropological work . |
| 20 | Since Ptolemy tried to solve this problem in the second century , it has been on the agenda of theorists of perception and is still , I understand , not fully resolved . |
| 21 | On previous tasks he has usually been on the cordon ringing the incident that the EOD team has been involved with , and cursing them for taking so long . |
| 22 | ‘ I might have been on the train that hit him ! |
| 23 | Mr V.P. Singh outwitted them all with his choice of the mufti , a gesture of reconciliation to the nation 's 100million Muslims , who have been on the receiving end of bloody communal violence in north India . |
| 24 | Smith should have been on the bench for London 's game against the Midlands last Saturday but had to drop out with the same complaint . |
| 25 | Smith should have been on the bench for London 's game against the Midlands last Saturday but had to drop out with the same complaint . |
| 26 | ‘ Reparations has been on the agenda for almost every generation of black Americans , ’ said Mr Walter Fauntroy , the District of Columbia 's representative in Congress . |
| 27 | But when I got there I found I was in with kids who 'd been nicked for stealing or who 'd been on drugs or alcohol or glue , and girls who had been on the streets at 13 . |
| 28 | ‘ Jill Jones 's album had been on the shelf for so long that when it did come out , it sounded old , ’ she reveals . |
| 29 | Beyond the fringe Nicky Mason , who has been on the fringes of England 's best men 's team for 30 years , showed during England 's outstanding 5-1 victory that he can still … |
| 30 | Given the previous level of set-net effort , however , the population was probably originally much larger , and had been on the decrease for many years , at least since the rapid expansion of set-net use in the mid 1970s . |