Example sentences of "has [be] [verb] on an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than £20 million in research costs has been lost on an abandoned nuclear safety programme . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As a result of their continued advocacy , research for its own sake has been developed on an appreciable scale . |
| 4 | This weakness has been largely du , they suggest , to the fact that readability research has been based on an impoverished psychology of reading . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | These are divestiture engagements in which the initiating member has been retained on an exclusive basis to assist in the sale of a business , and the business merits justify ( or the client specifically requests ) an international marketing program . |
| 7 | Mr Wilder , who for the last seventy years has been working on an exhaustive catalogue of English sporting prints 1750–1880 . |
| 8 | If the land has been let on an exempt basis after 31 July 1989 , the landlord needs Customs ' written permission to opt ( Sch 6A , para 3(6) ( a ) and ( 10 ) ; Notice 742B , part V ) . |