Example sentences of "have been [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is slightly less than would have been obtained on an ordinary fixed deposit for 90 days at 10 per cent . |
| 2 | To constitute an offence under those sections the waste must have been deposited on an unlicensed site or in breach of the conditions in the licence , must amount to an ‘ environmental hazard ’ and must have been deposited in such circumstances or for such a period that whoever deposited it there may reasonably be assumed to have abandoned it there or to have brought it there for the purpose of its being disposed as waste . |
| 3 | Land and buildings included at cost or valuation would have been stated on an historical cost basis at : |
| 4 | Or the link between inflation and unemployment may simply have been operating on a long lag , with the old , high NAIRU returning after several years to smack ministers in the face . |
| 5 | Perhaps the suffocating conventions of the Shermans ' Queen Anne plantation house would not have been forced on an unknowing seventeen-year-old if her ailing mother had not been so shamed by their straitened conditions in a rented house on the borders of the Creole quarter of New Orleans . |
| 6 | Villagers could have been sitting on a chemical poison with untold consequences to health . |
| 7 | If you can not get to your own branch , you can withdraw between £ 100 and £200 in cash from HICA by presenting your Midland Auto Cheque Card , which must have been issued on a Current Account held at the same branch as your HICA . |
| 8 | Sheriff Risk rejected suggestions that the Sikorsky should not have been landing on a restricted helideck . |