Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [verb] on a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A belief in Chinese superiority stemming from a closer approximation to the natural order of the cosmos governed China 's relations with neighbouring peoples , which over centuries had been conducted on a tributary basis . |
| 2 | Food would be marked with a " P " to indicate that pesticides had been used on a product . |
| 3 | A far more serious problem is when DCs have been activated on a package and some new versions of modules have been re-entered before deciding that they are useless and that the whole modification programme should be abandoned . |
| 4 | Floodlights have been installed on a soccer pitch and a hard porous hockey pitch , enabling matches and practice to take place in the evenings . |
| 5 | Aldo Ciccolini made six LPs of Satie piano music and about half of these recordings have been re-issued on a ‘ Rouge et Noir ’ set . |
| 6 | It is admitted that the gradings assigned to the respective countries have been done on a subjective basis and that different observers might well have come up with somewhat different rankings . |
| 7 | However , no more than about a dozen viruses have been produced on a commercial scale and only a few of these have been used on more than a few hundred hectares per year . |
| 8 | Hundreds of ancient bones have been unearthed on a building site . |
| 9 | Abandoned fawns have been reared on a bottle , only to die within a few months . |
| 10 | Her life had been full of pain and perplexity ; it is not too much to say that her emotional needs had been fastened on a man whom she never properly understood , and that he in turn was baffled and then enraged by her insistent and neurotic demands upon him . |
| 11 | The SNM stated that the relief workers had been riding on a government military lorry ; such lorries were subject to routine attack and they appealed to relief agencies to be " independent " in performing their duties . |
| 12 | For the past five years the scheme 's costs have been met on a limited term basis through special funding by the Government and then by joint agency funding . |
| 13 | Where too few examples of an artist 's work were sold in any one year , the calculations have been based on a series of overlapping pairs of years . |
| 14 | The grave claim that politicians are muddying the clear statistical waters has been made on a mumber of occasions now by Sir Claus Moser , a former head of the government statistical service . |
| 15 | One of the company 's washing machines had been featured on a well-known consumer affairs television programme , and some of the selling tactics used by Argent Distributors ' salespersons were deemed to be rather suspect . |
| 16 | Although trenches had been constructed on a limited scale in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5 , they became a significant factor in warfare only in World War I. By the end of 1914 , the conflict had developed into what amounted to a siege and both Allied and German soldiers dug trenches to protect themselves from enemy small-arms and machine-gun fire . |
| 17 | COUNTRYSIDE enthusiasts are claiming that tens of thousands of pounds have been wasted on a scheme designed to increase public access to the East Anglian countryside . |
| 18 | Considering that there are only ten full time members of staff on site , wonders have been worked on a number of the aeronautical exhibits . |
| 19 | Others have had to rely on government funding to keep going , although funding from the Department of the Environment through the Urban Programme has been restricted and only seven centres have been funded on a continuing basis by the Lord Chancellor 's Department , and ( fir the time being ) the Legal Aid Board . |
| 20 | Oil palms have been planted on a large part of the land behind the river and growers have been granted a draft permit to develop plantations along the river banks , the monkeys ' habitat , by the local land authority . |
| 21 | Although discussions about translating targets into action plans are at a preliminary stage , the succession of target setting exercises has been based on a broad concept of the influences on health . |
| 22 | The tears had been caught on a piece of gauze , and sealed in a cut-glass phial . |
| 23 | Royal reporters have been speculating on a new pregnancy for years , and members of the public have been no less nosy . |
| 24 | Moreover , as most of these tests have been conducted on a single national market , they impose an arbitrary segmentation on the model in which the effects of even other equity markets are arbitrarily ignored . |
| 25 | Research on the influence of cultural factors on intelligence testing and test results have been conducted on a wide scale and the results are endlessly discussed because of the inextricable mixture of technical and value judgments . |
| 26 | McGuigan says his wife , Sandra , and their four children have been living on a knife-edge since Eastwood 's libel action . |
| 27 | The houses had been built on a concrete raft on an infilled site . |
| 28 | Land made derelict by old industries has been reclaimed on a massive scale . |
| 29 | The company says all previous Unix systems have been based on a clock granularity of 100Hz and that it has developed an extension that allows an operator to select the clock or alarm granularity that optimises the equipment . |
| 30 | But recently bulbs have been thrown on a compost heap and wooden crosses made by his young grandchildren have been dumped on his widow 's doorstep . |