Example sentences of "[noun pl] had been on [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even then he had a special devotion to subterranean tracks and as the train came to the Wellington tunnel ( he and his parents had been on holiday to Cornwall that summer ) he began letting out a series of long drawn-out hooting sounds . |
| 2 | Atomic shelters had been on sale in the U.S. ( at a cost of $1,995 in 1951 ) since the first Russian atomic bomb . |
| 3 | The mineworkers had been on strike since Nov. 30 , demanding pay rises of 300-600 per cent . |
| 4 | Already since April 11 railway workers in western Georgia and dockers at the Black Sea ports had been on strike in protest at the presence of Soviet troops in the troubled South Ossetia region . |
| 5 | The patients had been on treatment for more than six months and although the type of NSAID varied , all had been established on one drug continuously for over six weeks . |
| 6 | The President stated that all nominations had been on display at the rear of the Hall since the beginning of the meeting . |
| 7 | On March 26 , schools and colleges reopened in Tirgu Mures , including the Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy whose ethnic Hungarian students had been on strike for three weeks , and tension in the city and surrounding region was reported to have eased . |
| 8 | His nerves had been on hold for days . |
| 9 | Michael Barnes was forty-five , an Oxford-educated barrister who specialized in planning law and whose main involvement in major public inquiries had been on behalf of the government over the proposed Stansted Airport . |