Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [verb] on [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five ties have been settled on penalties this season following the introduction by the FA of the ‘ eight-day ruling ’ . |
| 2 | To find out what books have been published on topics of interest one can use the British National Bibliography , which since 1950 has listed every new work published in Britain , accumulating from weekly to monthly and to annual publication . |
| 3 | While Dutch administrators have been working on plans to transfer part of the former Daf into a new company known as New Daf , it is not yet known if the rescue package will help save jobs at the five Leyland Daf plants in Britain . |
| 4 | Around 20 per cent of loans to Third World countries have been spent on arms : the weapons go to poor countries , the money back to rich ones3 . |
| 5 | He suggested that , given the nature of the wounds , it seemed that knuckledusters and razors had been used on members of the public . |
| 6 | Most comparisons between human and animal insulins have been based on responses to acute hypoglycaemia , often in non-diabetic subjects , and have found little or no difference between responses with the different species of insulins . |
| 7 | Fore-edge paintings had been put on books for centuries , but William Edwards was the first binder to paint landscape scenes on fore-edges which were hidden by gilt and could only be viewed by fanning the leaves of the book . |
| 8 | Studies have been done on humans , intact animals , isolated gastric mucosa , and gastric cell cultures to study the effect of ethanol on gastric cell function . |
| 9 | However a number of these studies have been based on percentages of graduates , rather than all those who had originally entered the degree programmes . |
| 10 | There have been few studies of adults with cystic fibrosis with respect to employment , education , housing , insurance , and other features of lifestyle , and most such studies have been based on patients attending large clinics , who may be unrepresentative of the total population with the disease . |
| 11 | In Japan the securities industry , whose profits have been built on shares sold to housewives in the Japanese equivalent of Tupperware parties , is desperately worried that last year 's stockmarket crash may have brought the party to an end . |
| 12 | Members have been working on designs for an antipollution poster . |
| 13 | No food had got through and the men had been put on half-rations . |
| 14 | Three other men have been released on police bail . |
| 15 | The 14-year-olds have been released on police bail . |
| 16 | Is not it hard that all those measures have been placed on students at a time when they find it particularly difficult to get vacation jobs or part-time jobs in term time and when those who graduate find it increasingly difficult to get jobs to pay off the overdrafts that they have had to incur as students ? |
| 17 | ‘ The criminals have been concentrating on sheds , outhouses and garages and taking bikes , lawnmowers and garden equipment , ’ the crime prevention officer at Antrim Road explained . |
| 18 | This is not surprising , considering senior managers ' minds have been focused on assessments and discharge arrangements . |
| 19 | He stated that since April 25 officers and 600 other ranks had been dismissed on charges of indiscipline and involvement in criminal activities . |
| 20 | The government also announced that restrictions had been lifted on Jews buying and selling property . |
| 21 | She concludes that , on balance , the RMCs have done an excellent job and that the most successful ones have been based on colleges or groups of colleges which already had pockets of energy and entrepreneurial spirit and like the South West RMC were closely linked with the communities they served . |
| 22 | Slogans have been painted on walls in the village . |
| 23 | Two others have been released on police bail . |
| 24 | Since the information stored is likely to differ from one employee to another , several relational database management systems for personnel records have been developed on micros exclusively for use in personnel applications . |
| 25 | Police announced that youths posing as charity collectors have been knocking on doors in Liverpool asking for money for the James Bulger Appeal . |
| 26 | This is expected to show that appropriate parts of the monies passed to the schools from local authorities have been spent on books . |
| 27 | Yet none of our preparations has been tested on animals . |
| 28 | The shares have been soaring on hopes that the rate rises would go through , and Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp is likely to get some of the local rate increases it is seeking , Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Junichiro Koizumi told Reuters : the company wants to raise rates across the board , but the hikes are likely to be granted only for pay telephones , not for households or businesses . |
| 29 | Firstly , it is inadvisable to take remedies consisting of mixtures as no homoeopathic provings have been done on mixtures and it is not known whether the effects of these are different from the effects of their individual components . |