Example sentences of "that [pers pn] have been [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had hinted to him that I had been engaged on a paper to be called ‘ Enslavement by Capital ’ , a title adapted from one employed by Ezra Pound in a Criterion article called more characteristically , ‘ Murder by Capital ’ . |
| 2 | Mrs Johnston made a claim to an industrial tribunal that she had been a victim of sex discrimination ; but the Secretary of State issued a certificate ( which the relevant statute said was ‘ conclusive ’ ) that she had been dismissed on grounds of national security . |
| 3 | Outwardly , I criticised them as much as anybody , feeling more than pissed off that we had been hit on their account . |
| 4 | All she could recollect was that she 'd been amazed to find that they 'd been born on practically the same day in August : she on the sixth , and he on the eighth . |
| 5 | If there are to be company spokesmen involved in the filming , it is your job to make sure that they are there when they are wanted and that they have been briefed on what to say . |
| 6 | I 'm also an alternative therapist and I do find that this is one of the major problems , that ninety percent of my patients who come to me suffer from stress and depression , and really what has happened in a lot of cases is that they have been put on valium and drugs , they find the side effects are horrific ! |
| 7 | If this does not happen the person will quickly become disgruntled and disillusioned ; worse , they may feel that they have been recruited on a totally false basis . |
| 8 | It had been accepted under the UDF umbrella , but after the ethnic strife at the beginning of 1990 concerning the Turkish minority it had been rejected on the grounds that it had been constituted on ethnic lines . |
| 9 | A shod note accompanied the card , informing me that it had been found on Oberleutnant Bauer 's body . |
| 10 | Reports indicated , however , that it had been excluded on the direction of the King who , in a veiled attack on Brotherhood policies on June 19 , condemned those who engaged in " intellectual and psychological terrorism " and portrayed suicide as " martyrdom " . |
| 11 | Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't . |
| 12 | After five minutes patiently waiting I noticed that he had been distracted on his way back by a friend behind the counter . |