Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been left with egg on my face . |
| 2 | COMMUTERS on Merseyside have been warned of disruption on the railway network over the weekend , as engineers carry out essential maintenance work on the Wirral line . |
| 3 | More recent works have been called in aid on those occasions when jurists and others have sought to delineate features of the contemporary Constitution ; this has been the case especially in determining the existence or otherwise of conventions . |
| 4 | A couple have been robbed at gunpoint on a dream holiday to Disney World . |
| 5 | If the country and the House have refused , since then , to give in to terror — despite all the horrors that have been inflicted against humanity on the mainland and , especially , in Northern Ireland — why should the leadership of the Provisional IRA and its fellow travellers , wherever they may be found , conclude that we shall give in to terror during the next 21 years ? |
| 6 | Thus , tests for organisms such as E coli and Shigella have been developed for use on drinking water supplies . |
| 7 | In recent years members of the department have been engaged in research on anti-discrimination law , commissioned by the Standing Advisory Commission on Human Rights in Northern Ireland , and Professor Munro has acted as a consultant to the European Parliament , while Mr Walker is participating in a project on the Policing Implications of European Co-operation , funded by the E.S.R.C . |
| 8 | We have been assisted by argument on the barrister 's behalf , from Mr. Thornton , and by Mr. Richards , on behalf of the Lord Chancellor 's Department . |
| 9 | In the forty-odd experimental studies that have been reported to date on periods of sleep loss longer than two days , hallucinations have been uncommon , tending to affect individuals in solitary vigils , rather than those in groups . |
| 10 | Swimmers in distress have been carried to safety on dolphins ' backs . |
| 11 | The former Chairman and Accountant of Aylesbury Town Football Club have been committed for trial on tax fraud charges . |
| 12 | Three separate paving contracts have been won for work on the Trans Canada highway which runs from Lake Superior in Ontario to Vancouver in British Colombia . |