Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] have been on " in BNC.
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| 1 | But most of the English fleet had been on Parliament 's side during the Civil War , and in 1650 the Republic decided it was strong enough to impose an embargo on trade and send out an expedition to make Virginia and the West Indian islands acknowledge its authority . |
| 2 | I 'm pleased that the Divisional Championship has been on everybody 's lips around this time each year . |
| 3 | The offending blob had been on the left side of the X-ray as I had looked at it , and I had assumed that it was my left lung that was affected . |
| 4 | She felt cold , although the central heating had been on all morning , and took a large brown woollen shawl out of a drawer and wrapped it round her as she sat in the beanbag and listened . |
| 5 | The chief emphasis has been on instructing children in the use of the library and to a lesser extent on the promotion of reading amongst schoolchildren . |
| 6 | Two hundred thousand roubles in the hold-all and out into the street and into the car where the engine ticked snugly and into the traffic … and the stupid bitch had been on the pedestrian crossing , and her bags filled both hands , and she had frozen , not stepped back , and the car had hit her , swerved , crashed . |
| 7 | The first psychiatrist had been on the National Health , but he was useless . |
| 8 | Certainly some , like British Telecommunications , gas , electricity and water , produced spectacular financial results , but the lasting impact has been on the businesses themselves . |
| 9 | The former pairing has been on the cards ever since critics fingered Penn as the brat who would be Bob but the latter seems less plausible . |