Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reports on the armed conflict in the former Yugoslavia , however , suggest not only that rape and the sexual abuse of women have been carried out on a massive scale , but that it has been systematic and organised . |
| 2 | Some rural districts , however , still lack separate housing departments staffed by professionally trained housing managers , and in extreme instances allocations have been carried out on a more or less ad hoc basis by local councillors . |
| 3 | In the end , he had to settle for a survey which had been carried out on a national scale by a well-known agency . |
| 4 | Previous abridgements of the Philosophical Transactions had been carried out on a piecemeal basis , whereas Baddam 's version provided continuity and uniformity for the first time ( see Nichols 's summary of them in the above , pp. 482–3 ) . |
| 5 | Andrew Kuttner , Pat Sutton and Eddie Welch have been training together on a regular basis at the Sports Centre for two years . |
| 6 | ‘ To be honest , no really well-founded scheme has ever been turned down on a financial basis . |
| 7 | Without qualifying their opinion , auditors Hacker Young draw attention in their report to the basis on which the industrial textiles group 's accounts have been prepared ; they have been drawn up on a going concern basis . |
| 8 | In order to assess how ‘ fair ’ the warranted Accounts are and to verify or compare profit/and/or net asset growth it is useful to be able to assume that previous accounts have been drawn up on a similar basis and that , for example , the Vendor has not unfairly weighted the profits for the warranted Accounts . |
| 9 | THE mutilated bodies of two British women tourists have been washed up on a deserted South African beach . |
| 10 | In the US , some observers point out that single-mode fibre has been produced only on a small scale and the technology is not proven . |
| 11 | It is time to look more closely at the imperative for which we have so far been getting along on a rough formulation , ‘ Face facts ’ . |
| 12 | This particular perversion , I notice , like every other , has been set up on a professional basis in go-getting New York . |
| 13 | I did Hope that Lord Nelson who was staying at Raby might come down to partake of the fayre which had been set out on a Royal Oak table decorated with a huge Wheatsheaf , Blue Bells and a small Green Tree that looked very much like Three Tuns . |
| 14 | Tamar had been brought up on a tenanted farm and was sensitive to the diffidence felt when an approach to the landowner was necessary . |
| 15 | He 'd been brought up on a steady diet of blood , sweat and tears and Douglas Bader . |
| 16 | Now it is for these reasons all of these different views and these conflicting opinions coming from authoritative sources and the concern the locals have that this issue has been ramrodded through on a political ticket is is is the very reason why it should go to an inspector appointed by the Secretary of State at least some semblance of independence and that issues brought out in in full public consideration . |
| 17 | It 's not been ramrodded through on a political basis . |
| 18 | I heard this with embarrassment , remembering how terribly bored and miserable I had been sitting there on a long hot afternoon , hardly understanding a word as chiefs and elders talked to our delegation in local dialect . |
| 19 | Commercial developments of this basis principle have been tested successfully on a large number of test fires , and a pneumatically-operated resetting system is now in its final development stages . |
| 20 | Guardian members are to receive an average £520 cash windfall for voting ‘ yes ’ to the merger at a special meeting in December — the first time a bonus of this size has been paid out on a simple merger operation . |
| 21 | Davie 's also been working hard on a new Poizone range . |
| 22 | ‘ Hours of watching Ruddock on video revealed that he had a tendency to drop his left hand low , so he was wide open to my right and we 've been working hard on a left-right combination , ’ he explained . |