Example sentences of "been [verb] on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He claims that Stanford has been leant on by the Chinese government and by American academics , who were scared that the door to China would be closed unless he was punished . |
| 2 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 3 | The avenues explored in applying neural computing to these three applications and the results from these have been reported on at the regular monthly Club meetings . |
| 4 | As the prospects of a Tory victory recedes , the likes of Sunderland car magnate Sir Tom Cowie and Tyneside bus burgher Martin Ballinger have been banging on about the Tory cause . |
| 5 | Despite this apparent lack of interest at high level , detail work must have been carried on during the next two years , for Gordon Thomas , together with the signatories of the memorandum , took out two patents relating to the lift . |
| 6 | the Business has been carried on in the ordinary and usual course and in the same manner ( including nature and scope ) as in the past and no unusual or abnormal contract differing from the ordinary contracts necessitated by the nature of its business has been entered into ; and |
| 7 | Here had been the baroque brothels , where wenching had been carried on in the grand manner . |
| 8 | The work on the atomic bomb , which had been carried on in the British Isles , was transferred , in 1943 , to the United States of America , and became known as the ‘ Manhattan Project ’ . |
| 9 | But wherever they end up , there 's a good chance they 'll be moved on again in the next few weeks — 28 groups have been moved on in the last 18 months and the County Council is moving on another group from Kirtlington , north of Oxford tomorrow . |
| 10 | When both trunks had been hauled on to the far bank they used the ropes to bind them together at various points along their length . |
| 11 | There I mean there was nothing like the bombing that 's been going on , well , at least that 's what we 're told , the bombing that 's been going on over the last twenty four , forty eight hours of Baghdad for instance . |
| 12 | The Greek revolts which had been going on since the early eighteen twenties . |
| 13 | The spread of AIDS may have signalled the end of the gigantic sex trip that has been going on since the sixties . |
| 14 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 15 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 16 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 17 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
| 18 | A well orchestrated campaign has been going on in the British press for the last two or three weeks , led by a PR firm engaged by the dealer Dr David Nasser Khalili himself , to persuade the British public that it would be a crying shame if there were not a Nasser Khalili museum in the centre of London . |
| 19 | Since then , the issue has been rumbling on in the French press , being kept alive for the fast-approaching Five Nations Championship . |
| 20 | Some are looking to sell their practices or merge their way out of problems that have been brought on by the severest recession the UK has experienced since the 1930s . |
| 21 | True , gay sexuality had featured with the Beats , with Kerouac 's ambivalent relationship with Ginsberg , his semi-love affair with Neal Cassidy ; and the subject had been touched on by the early underground , but rather in the way that Ezra Pound 's fascism had been treated , as an interesting eccentricity . |
| 22 | The mapping or transformation rules to convert the conceptual model in the form of entities , attributes and relationships , to a logical model which could be relational , hierarchical or network has already been touched on in the relevant sections . |
| 23 | That has been spurred on by the successful growth of that sector in Britain . |
| 24 | It has also been spurred on by the growing tendency for young adults to seek accommodation away from their parents ' home and , particularly in the 1980s , by the increase in the numbers of young adults resulting from the baby boom . |
| 25 | All the responsibility has been thrown on to the regulatory body OFTEL , when it might have been possible to help the market work better . |
| 26 | The Disability Alliance , Mencap and other disability groups are outraged at the way in which these four affirmative orders have been spatchcocked on to the normal debate . |
| 27 | Extra midwives had been taken on for the same reason . |
| 28 | Many of these have since been taken on by the wider society and are to be found in all its corners influencing even those who would now deny them any real significance and tend to look back on the decade as only times of silliness and self-indulgence . |
| 29 | Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place . |
| 30 | They should never have been taken on in the first place , any bet , that our , our problem should never have been taken on in the first place . |