Example sentences of "have been [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , coaching sessions are arranged : there is a scheme organised by Prudential Insurance which runs weekly sessions for six weeks after Easter , and in the summer holidays further coaching has been arranged on a regular basis . |
| 2 | However , the bulk of new housing has been built on a straightforward commercial basis and corresponds to the developments of the 1930s . |
| 3 | It has been built on a solid bedrock of good dogs and breeding control , with a strong emphasis on mentality . |
| 4 | The general layout and fine pavements give the site all the appearance of a rich villa , but it has been built on a levelled shelf of tufa , through which flow vigorous streams from nearby springs . |
| 5 | More than £20 million in research costs has been lost on an abandoned nuclear safety programme . |
| 6 | MORE than £20 million in research costs has been lost on an abandoned nuclear safety programme for Britain 's advanced gas-cooled reactors ( AGR ) , the National Audit Office disclosed yesterday . |
| 7 | R. B. Miller takes as a starting point modern pulsed power technology which , although originating in the UK , has been developed on a large scale in the US . |
| 8 | As a result of their continued advocacy , research for its own sake has been developed on an appreciable scale . |
| 9 | It is an authoritative review of the research that has been done on a fascinating fauna . |
| 10 | I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff , South and Penarth ( Mr. Michael ) that it is doubly absurd to destroy jobs in the British tobacco industry — as has been done on a large scale — if that leads not to a reduction in tobacco consumption but to the substitution of imported brands of cigarette . |
| 11 | ‘ To ensure discoloured water is kept to a minimum , North Ormesby has been placed on a regular flushing programme . ’ |
| 12 | Indeed , the system has already been developed , but up until now it has been deployed on a carrier-by-carrier basis at Deutsche Bundespost Telekom and at Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV , which has had a pilot Intelligent Network centre that uses the Northern and Tandem products in operation for the last year . |
| 13 | Hailed as the current ‘ big thing ’ for a fair while , the ‘ Indie/dance crossover ’ has been immortalised on a K-tel style compilation , put together by DJ Gary Crowley . |
| 14 | Hailed as the current ‘ big thing ’ for a fair while , the ‘ Indie/dance crossover ’ has been immortalised on a K-tel style compilation , put together by DJ Gary Crowley . |
| 15 | One of their unfortunate discards , Christopher Cowdrey , has been grabbed on a part-time basis by Glamorgan , who continue to question the worth of the extensive second XI structure and also reduce playing numbers for 1992 by five to 18 . |
| 16 | It has been argued on a small amount of evidence from Britain and a greater quantity from Gaul , that most civitates were divided into constituent pagi , or rural areas , and that small towns acted as pagus centres . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Much of this expenditure , which has taken such a toll , on both the exchequer and the environment , has been based on a simple assumption which is deeply embedded in agricultural thinking : that excess water is the enemy of good husbandry and must be driven off the land . |
| 19 | The sample has been based on a random choice of houses . |
| 20 | This weakness has been largely du , they suggest , to the fact that readability research has been based on an impoverished psychology of reading . |
| 21 | Consultancy , training and enquiry work has been undertaken on a trans-European basis . |
| 22 | If the applicant does not attend , however , the court is likely to dismiss the application although it may proceed in his absence if sufficient evidence has been received on a previous occasion ( FPCR , r16(5) ; FPR , r4.16(5) ) . |
| 23 | A motorist in Cooperville , Florida , has been acquitted on a drink-driving charge because he drove so well under the influence . |
| 24 | Subject to that reservation , where an assessable in-house benefit has been computed on an average cost basis , but the liability has yet to be agreed for whatever reason , the amount assessable should be recomputed on a marginal cost basis . |
| 25 | Traditionally , labour in the construction industry has been employed on a casual basis . |
| 26 | A former senior driving examiner with the Ministry of Transport , Bob Cowe , has been employed on a fixed term contract to teach defensive driving techniques to Inroads drivers . |
| 27 | It has been bought on a long lease which also gives BP , which uses the offices , a five-year lease-back arrangement . |
| 28 | The referral list has been produced on a regional basis . |
| 29 | These use an advanced version of the Pulse D/A converter which has been produced on a single IC ‘ chip ’ ( type CXD-2562 ) . |
| 30 | For example , the blue-green alga Spirulina maxima has been produced on a commercial basis from Lake Texcoco in Mexico and , in common with similar projects in Hawaii , Taiwan , Israel and Thailand , the dried algal products are sold as health foods . |