Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [verb] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years of close military co-operation , including joint work in missile development , have given Egypt valuable information about its former Iraqi ally , which has presumably been passed on to the Americans . |
| 2 | The virus has since been passed on to their children , their sexual partners and their partners ' partners . |
| 3 | This has already been touched on in Chapter 7 . |
| 4 | Each has already been touched on in passing , but something more needs to be said . |
| 5 | The mapping or transformation rules to convert the conceptual model in the form of entities , attributes and relationships , to a logical model which could be relational , hierarchical or network has already been touched on in the relevant sections . |
| 6 | In particular , perhaps , there will be the question of agreeing the partners ' profit shares , the problem of which has already been touched on in Chapter 4 . |
| 7 | Another factor which has reinforced this and which has hardly been remarked on in this context is the telephone . |
| 8 | He has never deified himself ; that role has always been taken on by the press , or more usually , the fans . |
| 9 | It has also been spurred on by the growing tendency for young adults to seek accommodation away from their parents ' home and , particularly in the 1980s , by the increase in the numbers of young adults resulting from the baby boom . |
| 10 | What has really been going on in this establishment ? |
| 11 | Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park . |
| 12 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 13 | The petition has now been passed on to Durham County Council . ’ |
| 14 | The mail-order scheme for cycle helmets run by the Scottish Road Safety Campaign has now been taken on by the ‘ Hard Helmet Scheme ’ . |
| 15 | class has now been put on to Thursday morning |
| 16 | Teresa , who has regularly been called on by the Clothes Show and TV-am as well as many famous faces , will demonstrate simple application tips and talk about how to choose make-up from the bewildering choice available . |
| 17 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 18 | These steps into a wider world were part of a great process of expansion by western Europe that had already been going on for decades . |
| 19 | Army bomb disposal experts arrived at Dorton late this afternoon to join the search of the trackside that had already been going on for four and a half hours . |
| 20 | Because you , you 've just been going on about going abroad |
| 21 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 22 | A devolution of power had also been going on at home and all our policy must take account of it . |
| 23 | Names of infant Mulverins had recently been scratched on to the wall . |
| 24 | In addition , two colleagues in naval intelligence had recently been taken on by ICI to be trained as work study officers , and spoke enthusiastically to me of how they were treated by the company . |
| 25 | In any case , I 've never been called on to deal with anything like this before . |
| 26 | Winter and the new Food and Beverage manager had considered that the best applicant was a female graduate with a proven record and innovative ideas , but there was opposition from the Head Chef and the rest of the ‘ old guard ’ , who contacted the previous owner : he in turn had spoken to David Edwards , who had rung Winter and suggested ‘ cooling it ’ ( the disappointed applicant had subsequently been taken on by Duchy 's expanding Hotels Division ) . |
| 27 | Many of these have since been taken on by the wider society and are to be found in all its corners influencing even those who would now deny them any real significance and tend to look back on the decade as only times of silliness and self-indulgence . |
| 28 | But the process has also been a more subtle one , as new initiatives have apparently been tacked on to existing local government . |
| 29 | Erm and that 's really been coming on for about five years . |