Example sentences of "have been spent on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In every year since I became Prime Minister , more money has been spent on the health service . |
| 2 | Some of the money has been spent on a great collection of literary manuscripts . |
| 3 | Furthermore , a large proportion of the budget has been spent on both internal security and the war with Angola . |
| 4 | Too little has been spent on maintaining the system in the past and the industry , faced with signs of accelerating failure rates , does not yet appear to be doing enough to contain the rate of decay . |
| 5 | Since the 1950s , £16 billion has been spent on nuclear research and development , which is equivalent to a one and a quarter pence tax on each unit of nuclear electricity produced over the years . |
| 6 | In comparison only £150 million has been spent on renewables since the 1970s . |
| 7 | Nearly £15,000 has been spent on landscaping and surfacing the area by The Globe public house and down to Alresford Pond . |
| 8 | CHILDREN are risking life on a busy road — while £10,000 has been spent on a nearby crossing for cows . |
| 9 | This year not one Lira of government funds has been spent on restoration |
| 10 | More than $8 billion has been spent on the programme so far , to little visible effect . |
| 11 | The lion's-share of these funds ECU3.5 million has been spent on the Parthenon and the Athens acropolis , mainly reassembling and consolidating stonework . |
| 12 | Most of the money has been spent on improving the accommodation for students . |
| 13 | More than £15 million has been spent on a broad range of training measures . |
| 14 | Over El 15 million has been spent on a broad range of training measures , including YTS and wider opportunities for women . |
| 15 | In the last five years , £9 million has been spent on improving school buildings in the area . |
| 16 | Around 20 per cent of Third World debt has been spent on arms . |
| 17 | A quarter of Egypt 's $40 billion debt has been spent on arms . |
| 18 | To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much has been spent on motorway and major trunk road construction in each of the past three years at constant prices . |
| 19 | The Secretary of State has argued today that at least part of the money saved has been spent on other benefits and he has implied that on balance , people are no worse off — a familiar argument . |
| 20 | Although a lot of research has been devoted to understanding negative emotions such as anxiety or depression , very little time has been spent on finding out what makes people happy . |
| 21 | A great deal of Alison 's time recently has been spent on the launch of the Income Protection and Critical Protection contracts . |
| 22 | Just under £400,000 has been spent on the equipment , which will visit Blackpool Pleasure Beach , county shows up and down the country and the Southampton Boat Show later this summer . |
| 23 | Elm Energy , which is operating the plant on a contract from the Non-Fossil Purchasing Agency , says the power station will be the cleanest in the country ; £48 million has been spent on equipment to ensure that emissions are well below maximum levels set by the World Health Organisation . |
| 24 | Where there are attendance notes on the file to show accurately how much time has been spent on a particular task then that time will be allowed on taxation . |
| 25 | More and more money has been spent on the police , and it has n't worked , and that 's why everybody 's looking round for new initiatives , that 's why Patrick Sheehy who after all is chairman of a very successful commercial corporation , was asked by your government to put forward recommendations , that a lot of very unsuccessful police forces rejected out of hand . |
| 26 | My Lords , will the er Minister say how much money has been spent on the so called cash protection for grant maintained schools and will she confirm that the one quarter of a million pounds almost a quarter of a million pounds being spent on advertising grant maintained schools is additional er to the scheme , to the first part of the question . |
| 27 | Almost £1m has been spent on Donegal Town , where the Diamond has been transformed from a car park to a landscaped public area . |
| 28 | The force estimates that £650,000 has been spent on the investigations so far . |
| 29 | TV contracts and so on , and a lot has been spent on modernising grounds . ’ |
| 30 | Since that time , more than £1.51m has been spent on crime-fighting schemes , with running costs adding a further £100,000-a-year . |