Example sentences of "[conj] it have been [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been accepted under the UDF umbrella , but after the ethnic strife at the beginning of 1990 concerning the Turkish minority it had been rejected on the grounds that it had been constituted on ethnic lines . |
| 2 | It was raining when Patrick Montgomery Lundy , followed by Jane Bradley , stepped onto Irish soil , and he suddenly remembered his mother telling him that it had been raining on the day she had first come to Ireland , in the May of 1898 . |
| 3 | A shod note accompanied the card , informing me that it had been found on Oberleutnant Bauer 's body . |
| 4 | Reports indicated , however , that it had been excluded on the direction of the King who , in a veiled attack on Brotherhood policies on June 19 , condemned those who engaged in " intellectual and psychological terrorism " and portrayed suicide as " martyrdom " . |
| 5 | Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't . |
| 6 | Incredible to think that it has been going on all these years … |
| 7 | It 's incredible to think that it 's been going on all these years ! |
| 8 | I will , of course , send you one of the copies of the Agreement for your records once it has been signed on behalf of the Press . |
| 9 | This is true , and no one can say they know a score , however well it may be known in the mind , until it has been tried on the orchestra . |
| 10 | The window did n't look as if it had been cleaned on the outside in years , and there were splashes of pigeon droppings on the sill . |
| 11 | The impenetrable lack of doubt in the military mind , he reflected ; if it 's been okayed on the next step up , further question becomes unnecessary . |
| 12 | if it 's been standing on the floor though , only the top leaves would , I do n't know what to do about having it there though , that 's right above the radiator , it 'll dry it out that 's , that 's why I said |
| 13 | Cos it had been playing on her mind for weeks . |
| 14 | There did exist the small Northern Ireland Labour Party which disappeared after the fall of Stormont ; but it had been based on industrial workers , particularly in the shipyards , and remained much smaller in size than its Southern counterpart . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The general layout and fine pavements give the site all the appearance of a rich villa , but it has been built on a levelled shelf of tufa , through which flow vigorous streams from nearby springs . |
| 17 | In another passage evocative of past attempts to play the race card , Mr Tebbit wrote that ‘ most people in Britain did not want to live in a multicultural , multiracial society , but it has been foisted on them ’ . |
| 18 | He was entitled to his moment of pride ; shooting had gone well on the set of The Viking — astonishingly well considering it had been done on a ludicrously small budget and with television crews much more accustomed to slapstick children 's shows than gritty drama . |
| 19 | because it 's been going on a long time . |
| 20 | ENGLAND and Holland have declined to enter the sixth European Women 's Indoor Cup early next month because it has been sprung on them by the European federation . |
| 21 | It was one of the truly marvellous innings , one that no one who saw it could ever forget ; since it has been shown on television virtually every time rain has stopped play in any match since , it would be almost impossible to have forgotten it anyway . |
| 22 | Even if it has , you should not always expect reliable reading of a file on a 5.25 inch disk when it has been written on a 1.2MB drive and you are attempting to read the file on a 360K drive . |
| 23 | Wholesale reform of language to eliminate sexism has proved more difficult , however ; particularly when it has been based on simplistic accounts of what language is and how it works . |
| 24 | We had an expensive meal and tried to get drunk , but the evening had a forced feel to it as though it had been written on Orders that we would , compulsorily , enjoy ourselves . |
| 25 | The Walls of Troy turf maze near Brandsby , North Yorkshire , is possibly the most ancient in Britain , though it has been re-cut on several occasions , most recently in 1934 , when carts using the grass verge had obliterated it . |