Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd 've been lying on Spanish beaches with her eyes tight shut knowing that every Spanish boy who passed would fancy her . |
| 2 | ‘ Therefore , Labour will be back in strength in the next election , and in the meantime , will be tiny of the performance of the council which has been elected on this occasion . ’ |
| 3 | So erm can you tell us what proportion of the work erm had been completed before prices were fixed erm for those packages that have been an and also what proportion of the work has been completed on those packages yet to be priced . |
| 4 | The University 's approach to financial planning ( as has been explained on previous occasions ) is essentially conservative , in that its systems are aimed at forecasting what funds will be available during the planning period and deciding how best to apply them to the academic priorities already identified . |
| 5 | The debate has been characterised by deep-seated differences of opinion , but it has been recognised on both sides of the House that the British coal industry faces formidable challenges . |
| 6 | It has been taken for granted for a long time that criticism and the academy go naturally together , and a large pedagogic and publishing industry has been built on that assumption . |
| 7 | The Upton park and ride has been built on zoo-owned ground at a cost of £1m and will eventually have 750 spaces . |
| 8 | This is the highest point of the Floriade , while the lowest is some 4.5m below sea level because the whole festival has been built on reclaimed land . |
| 9 | Indeed , the whole point of the local sign theory , as an alternative to the ‘ place pure and simple ’ account has been lost on some psychologists . |
| 10 | It has been stated on high authority that article 10 is in effect the same as the English common law . |
| 11 | He has been bailed on several sureties and appears in court tomorrow . ’ |
| 12 | The first limb is universally accepted as legitimate ; the second , though having the merit of expanding the scope of the Convention , has been criticized on various grounds . |
| 13 | The allocation of structural funds in southern Europe has been criticized on numerous occasions as causing environmental damage [ see EDs 56 ; 70 ] . |
| 14 | However their interpretation has been criticized on several counts which show that ‘ the family-firm analogy is misleading and generally overworked ; its character is usually symbolic or ideological rather than descriptive ’ ( Fruin 1980 p.432 ) . |
| 15 | This species has been recorded on both sides of the North Atlantic and from Arctic Seas ; in the east it has been recorded from the Kara Sea south to the Faeroe Channel and in the west from the Davis Strait south to off Maryland , with a bathymetric range of 50–2727 m . |
| 16 | We 've had fantastic support , as has been recorded on this programme many times before , and that is still growing . |
| 17 | has been indicted on twelve counts of racketeering , and offering bribes to elected officials to advance the interests of his clients , one of whom was G Tec . |
| 18 | Some of his biology is not too sound ; his statement that the gulls of the northern hemisphere may be exceptional — ‘ In the majority of species such gradual variation is not seen , and all the members are equally interfertile ’ — seems based on a plentiful lack of knowledge of the work that has been done on geographical variation in many groups of animals , including birds . |
| 19 | There is , admittedly , a long tradition both in linguistics and in literary studies of analysing the works of individual writers , particularly literary writers , but relatively little work has been done on such areas of text studies as the conventions of non-literary writing within a community or the preferred patterns of organization in different types of discourse . |
| 20 | It has been extensively investigated for large mammals ( Brain , 1958 , 1974 , 1981 ; Voorhies , 1969 ; Sutcliff , 1970 ; Behrensmeyer , 1975 ; Klein , 1975 ; Hill , 1975 ; Shipman , 1977 , 1983a ; Behrensmeyer & Hill , 1980 ; Binford , 1981 ) , but little work has been done on small mammals . |
| 21 | Extensive numerical work has been done on turbulent flows . |
| 22 | ‘ I believe the importance of genetic influences has been diminished in the amount of work that has been done on environmental influences . |
| 23 | That the court can take such an initiative is well settled and indeed it has been done on several occasions in the past . |
| 24 | Little sociological work has been done on Scottish agriculture ; hardly any of it on large-scale capitalist agriculture which would permit comparisons with English , Canadian and American investigations . |
| 25 | This has been done on these triangles . |
| 26 | What is surprising is that so few feminist researchers in the sociology of education have chosen to look at higher education , when so much work has been done on secondary education and , to a lesser extent , on primary education . |
| 27 | We thank you for those in Exeter who have granted permission for the work that has been done on this church building , and for the help that has been given towards the planning of the new building . |
| 28 | Some work has been done on this topic in recent years , but this study will differ from previous approaches by linking the unemployment flows much more closely to the other flows in the labour market . |
| 29 | Whilst in the past some reliance has been placed on low melting point plastics and the thermal shock effects on asbestos cement sheeting to provide a degree of ventilation , consequential to a fire , experience indicates that such faith can be misplaced . |
| 30 | Particular emphasis has been placed on supervisory skills , multi-tasking and accreditation of competence , as well as safety and safety awareness training and graduate placement schemes . |