Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [been] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average age of single deck vehicles was 10.3 years , while the county 's 88 more recently introduced mini-buses had been on the roads an average of 5.3 years . |
| 2 | It was then revealed that the two brothers had been on the brink of a merger with a hotel group , a highly respectable one with over fifty good solid hotels in the provinces . |
| 3 | In the whole region , perhaps 800,000 animals had been on the move , and about 20,000 were thought to have been killed by the hunters . |
| 4 | Previously , allocation of funds had been on a per capita student basis , but this changed to a research project grant system . |
| 5 | The teenagers had been on their way home from a party just after the outbreak of hostilities and , according to one military policeman , had tried to crash the road block , almost running down one of the MPs . |
| 6 | I was in the Lion , fortnight ago , Sunday dinnertime and lads had been on this er bike ride , you know for some children |
| 7 | It emerged much later that the first casualties had been on Thursday night — Konserven , one at Gleiwitz , six at Hohnlinden — who had been dressed as Polish soldiers and shot . |
| 8 | Even then he had a special devotion to subterranean tracks and as the train came to the Wellington tunnel ( he and his parents had been on holiday to Cornwall that summer ) he began letting out a series of long drawn-out hooting sounds . |
| 9 | So there was evidence that the beggars had been on the bank that morning . |
| 10 | One of the highest-ranking Mafia figures ever to testify for the authorities , Gravano claimed to having participated in 19 murders , and insisted that those committed during the last 10 years had been on the orders of Gotti . |
| 11 | Atomic shelters had been on sale in the U.S. ( at a cost of $1,995 in 1951 ) since the first Russian atomic bomb . |
| 12 | The mineworkers had been on strike since Nov. 30 , demanding pay rises of 300-600 per cent . |
| 13 | Already since April 11 railway workers in western Georgia and dockers at the Black Sea ports had been on strike in protest at the presence of Soviet troops in the troubled South Ossetia region . |
| 14 | This was offset by the fact that all the farmers had been on courses but in a family farm situation , where over half the wives were expected to carry out farm work in the case of their husbands ' sickness , some training should be beneficial . |
| 15 | Prosecuting solicitor Mr Peter Brown said the items had been on TV and in newspapers to try and track the owners . |
| 16 | There had been sporadic contact even before the 1850s treaties , and subsequent relations had been on the same unequal basis as those with the other powers . |
| 17 | Two of the police surgeons had been on holiday and the third , Doctor Maingay , who did a locum for her father 's old practice when needed , had not been available until Sunday morning . |
| 18 | The patients had been on treatment for more than six months and although the type of NSAID varied , all had been established on one drug continuously for over six weeks . |
| 19 | The FPR 's Radio Muhabura , on the other hand , carried the allegation on Sept. 6 that the Front 's positions had been attacked by government troops , and the FPR denied that its own forces had been on the offensive . |
| 20 | Until now his ships had been on a southerly course , the weather becoming even colder , the unexpected winds known now as williwaws threatening to dash his vessels against the steep cliffs . |
| 21 | The President stated that all nominations had been on display at the rear of the Hall since the beginning of the meeting . |
| 22 | A spokesman for the Villahermosa told The Art Newspaper that negotiations had been on the basis of a price of Pta35 billion ( £185 million ; $259 million ) for the whole collection , although the Baron and the Ministry of Culture last month mentioned a figure of Pta50 billion ( £300 million ; $420 million ) . |
| 23 | Since 1914 millions of Russians had been on the move — four to five million away from the advancing armies of the Central Powers ; at least twelve million fleeing into exile during and after the Revolution ; the largest land army in the world manoeuvring , dying , and deserting from the longest front-line in history — to give the major examples alone , with very approximate numbers . |
| 24 | Earlier this week , he asked how effective the flood defences had been on February 20 and what changes to policy , investment programme and evacuation procedures were planned . |
| 25 | The first cases heard by the special courts had been on Sept. 6 , involving charges of financial irregularities against three former ministers , Jehangir Badar ( whose case was dismissed on Sept. 12 on grounds of insufficient evidence ) , Khwaja Ahmed Tariq Rahim , and Ahmed Khan Maneka . |
| 26 | Tory Derek Lamberth said closure plans had been on the agenda for two years . |
| 27 | Employees of the publicly owned public transport company EAS had been on indefinite strike since July 23 and the army had been running a reduced transport service in the capital . |
| 28 | On March 26 , schools and colleges reopened in Tirgu Mures , including the Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy whose ethnic Hungarian students had been on strike for three weeks , and tension in the city and surrounding region was reported to have eased . |
| 29 | He felt guilty now for not having paid more attention , but his thoughts had been on the groom . |
| 30 | And then Iris , by that non sequitur announcement of Carlos 's imminent arrival , showed that , far from listening to him , her thoughts had been on the voyage and what lay ahead . |