Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] on [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless cries of ‘ Kill them [ the Communists ] ’ have been heard on the fringes of the Leipzig demonstrations as protesters stormed the offices of the hated secret police . |
| 2 | No evaluation has yet been undertaken on the effects of this on the fetus . |
| 3 | Er , there is a a little orange leaflet which has been placed on the seats during the day that many of you , I hope , already have er , for anyone who has n't may I perhaps place these on the front table , there 's a the , there 's another supply over there and , could I please ask that some responsible representative from each district would please take a few more of these away with you so that they are distributed in district meetings in the near future , and attention drawn to them there er , if there are not enough copies er , then I 'm sure the provincial office on receiving a , a request from you will make sure there 's more that passed on to you . |
| 4 | It demonstrates clearly the enormous burden of indirect taxation that has been placed on the shoulders of millions of families since the Government came to power . |
| 5 | the service relates to specific shares in the context of a merger , acquisition or disposal and advice has been given on the merits of the transaction or a transaction arranged ; or |
| 6 | The trial of two people accused of the murder of a man described as a police informer has been halted on the orders of the judge . |
| 7 | FOR the first time since peace was signed in El Salvador more than a year ago , blood has been spilled on the streets of San Salvador , the capital city . |
| 8 | ANC sources said the funds of the ANC Department of Social Welfare , which she heads , had been frozen on the orders of the movement 's treasurer-general after she failed to account for more than 400,000 Rand ( £80,000 ) that is missing . |
| 9 | At each period new houses and streets have been added on the margins of the built-up area . |
| 10 | The definition suggested has been framed on the lines of existing law . |
| 11 | Malaria was hyper-endemic by the beach , so the village had been built on the cliffs above it , near the fresh springs . |
| 12 | A new complex of buildings has been built on the outskirts of the city . |
| 13 | Although vengeance had been wreaked on the assassins in Edinburgh , that was still by no means the main administrative centre . |
| 14 | The major was aware that the main suspect had been freed on the orders of the opposition leader . |
| 15 | Has any decision been made on the lines to be franchised ? |
| 16 | Probably more management books have been written on the problems of planning , or strategic direction , or strategic analysis , or competitive advantage and how to assess it , than on any other subject . |
| 17 | Much anthropology has been written on the ways in which culture and social rules constrain women . |
| 18 | Many poems have been written on the bowmen of Kent , the following being an extract from one of these . |
| 19 | Slogans have often been daubed on the walls of his constituency office in Smithdown Road , Wavertree . |
| 20 | Our pilot was said to be the best on the river , but every now and then there was a shudder as we touched a sandbank ; and there was so little water coming down from Aswan that we only squeezed through the lock at Nag Hammadi by all the passengers crowding into the bows of the Nefertari , while her crew hauled on ropes , chanting a shanty that might have been sung on the sunboats of the pharaohs . |
| 21 | Fabrics have been used on the walls in all the living areas . |
| 22 | On each occasion a different British University 's name has been used on the heads of the letters signed by an unknown student group . |
| 23 | If statistical tests had been performed on the results of the experiment it is likely , from Anderson and Barrios ( 1961 ) , that a primacy effect would have been obtained . |
| 24 | Organic farming has been challenged on the grounds of both economics and benefits . |
| 25 | The recommendation can only have been based on the interests of cost-cutting , not of justice . |
| 26 | Research which has suggested that there has been an increase in voluntary early retirement has been based on the responses of financially secure early retirees ( see , for example , Heidbreder 1972 ; McGoldrick and Cooper 1980 ) . |
| 27 | It was an awareness of a new kind of potentiality , one very different from my old sense of the word , which had been based on the illusions of ambition . |
| 28 | Erm the housing need figure we 've been working on for Greater York has been nine thousand seven hundred and that 's been based on the parishes within the Greater York study area . |
| 29 | More fundamentally , no one knows why sunspots should occur at all — or perhaps these days we should call them ‘ starspots ’ , since similar areas of ( comparatively ) low energy emission have now been detected on the faces of other stars . |
| 30 | The number of people whom they knew personally in Berlin could have been counted on the fingers of one hand . |