Example sentences of "been [verb] on [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage . |
| 2 | In patient 10 , who had been operated on for a bleeding ulcer seven years previously , a gastric lymphoma was diagnosed on the basis of biopsy specimens . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 4 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 5 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 6 | Democracy in industry , or , more broadly , at the work place , is an idea that has often been discussed , but with a few exceptions ( including Yugoslavia to some extent ) has hardly as yet been embarked on as a serious practice in most societies . |
| 7 | Lord Rix farce actor Brian Rix has accused them of not fighting back , saying : ‘ We rush like lemmings to the water 's edge , devising fatuous so-called policies … which are feeble attempts to cover up the fact that we have been defecated on from a great height . ’ |
| 8 | To Jonjo O'Neill , who a moment earlier had been plugging on towards a certain third place , this sign of weakness in Wayward Lad 's finishing effort offered remote but renewed hope : ‘ I suddenly saw he was tiring , ’ he reported later , ‘ and so did she . ’ |
| 9 | He has a gravitas that has not just been put on like a flashy waistcoat , nor indeed a Garrick Club tie . |
| 10 | The slide-rules had been passed on to a Swedish group known as Bread and Fish , which was packing them together with clothes and medicines for southern Africa , when arsonists burned down the warehouse . |
| 11 | The military budget was not discussed , although the issue of financing the armed forces had been passed on from a working meeting of CIS Defence Ministers on Feb. 27-28 . |
| 12 | Again , files that have not been worked on in a given period can be selected . |
| 13 | Mr Maxwell , who lives in Oxfordshire , has been taken on as a part-time consultant for the London recruitment agency , Morgan Chase Associates . |
| 14 | We 've been taken on as a whole gang with lots of others , to make roads for those who are chopping down the trees in Wychwood Forest . |
| 15 | The only exception is the sort of heat fault that makes a machine malfunction after it has been switched on for a given time or when the room warms up . |