Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adv] on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An overnight case had been placed carefully on a sheet of newspaper . |
| 2 | On the left breast of his tunic the insignia of the Legion d'Honneur glimmered among a broad cluster of medals , and his plumed tricorn had been placed ostentatiously on a table at his side . |
| 3 | The most severe tests have already been carried out on a man and a woman , unconnected with the project , last week . |
| 4 | Workflow software is able to recognise when a particular action has been carried out on a document and can then carry out other actions ( which were previously done manually ) by itself . |
| 5 | In tonight 's programme , Laura and her parents discover whether she is suitable for the surgery , which has only been carried out on a handful of other patients and is still at the experimental stage . |
| 6 | As in so many other fields of English law , the occasions on which recovery is permitted have been built up on a case by case basis . |
| 7 | The different LFA zones in the Auvergne have been drawn up on a Commune by Commune basis , each Commune being allocated completely to one zone or another with the exception of 11 Communes which are partly within one or other of the zones . |
| 8 | Lisa Benner — police believe that her body has been washed up on a beach in Kent |
| 9 | Hundreds of teachers and academics have been murdered , the UES has been closed down on a number of occasions by the army and the UCA subjected to bomb attacks . |
| 10 | As soon as his hands were free , Huw ducked away , retrieving a shirt and jersey that had been flung down on a pile of beer-crates , saying over his shoulder : ‘ Look , I 'd better be pushing off . |
| 11 | Therefore , to avoid any confusion , the interpretations have been based solely on a comparison of the rates charged for Cessna 150/152s , as these make up about 45 per cent of the aircraft offered for the purpose of basic training or hire . |
| 12 | The party considerations , in this as in so many other aspects of local government reorganisation , seemed to have been based more on an assessment of the past rather than on considerations for the future . |
| 13 | There is evidence that the present east gable is a replacement , made very soon , for another , likewise with a battle , which seems then to have been set up on a base in the sanctuary , its centre akroterion also . |
| 14 | Further questioning revealed that he was only able to sell the artefacts in Gibraltar because they had been found illegally on a site in Spain . |
| 15 | His writings were later able to save a model child , the philosopher John Stuart Mill , who had been brought up on a system of intensive reading and deprived of the ‘ culture of the feelings ’ . |
| 16 | Most of them were professional or business men but a high proportion had been brought up on a croft . |
| 17 | The hay had been brought up on a wain in front of which two of the farm horses stood , blowing plumes of steamy breath . |
| 18 | A younger generation , or at least a younger American generation , has been brought up on a list of acid tests , invented to get rid of the boiled oatmeal consistency of the bad verse of 1900 , and there is no doubt that many young readers seeing Binyon 's inversions , etc. , will be likely to throw down the translation under the impression that it is incompetent . |
| 19 | Now I do n't know if you 've been brought up on a diet of men who jump in and out of bed with whatever women take their fancy , but if you have then I suggest you go find one of them to satiate your appetite . |
| 20 | Only in Orkney did this response receive a low rating which could be attributed to most of the people interviewed having been brought up on a farm and having the confidence that usually goes hand in hand with experience . |
| 21 | But she understood , because she had been brought up on a farm . |
| 22 | He 'd been brought up on a farm and had a way with horses , and his first job when he left school was working for a brewery breaking in the big black cobs they brought over wild from Ireland and put to use as cart-horses dragging the great heavy drays full of ale . |
| 23 | It was the first time in Israel 's 41-year history that a government had been brought down on a vote of confidence . |
| 24 | This party was a much bigger affair than the small gathering back in August , and Belinda had been swept along on a tide of food and drink and conversation . |
| 25 | A high-rise block of flats had been clamped down on a street that did not think well of itself at the best of times . |
| 26 | Had her love of all these years been thrown away on a man who was incapable of loving in return ? |
| 27 | Bicker 's face looked as though it had been ground out on a millstone , but Ratagan was beaming . |
| 28 | The waiter held out the straw hat which had been left behind on a chair . |
| 29 | In fact it had been blown away on a gust of wind as soon as the crate was opened in Liverpool and was never seen again . |
| 30 | Bothwell had already been fetched here on a horse litter from Hermitage . |