Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been christened Nicandra on the insistence of her father who , in his luckier years , had bred and trained and ridden an outstanding winner of that name . |
| 2 | For example , on the crucial question of the medical condition of the evacuees , which was to cause so much controversy , the Board of Education believed that local authorities had been adequately warned that pediculosis ( head lice ) would be a problem and had been given instructions on how to disinfect children by the use of steam baths ; also that its memorandum Ev . |
| 3 | There again is the brave Boris Nikolayevich facing up to a murderous convict who has been given work on a building site and is threatening foreman Yeltsin with an axe ; sheer strength of will sends the man packing and the construction team gets the work done on time . |
| 4 | They have been given guidance on the importance of distinguishing between needs , preferences , and wants . |
| 5 | CODEFAM has been given time on the church radio station and thus has the opportunity to denounce human rights violations daily : |
| 6 | He found that Deep Level had been carried S.E. on the vein for 30 fathoms beyond the old works and was yielding a little ore . |
| 7 | In December 1983 , the Lord Chancellor dismissed for misbehaviour an Old Bailey Circuit judge who had been fined £2000 on two charges of smuggling whisky and cigarettes . |
| 8 | Honecker 's transfer — made without German permission on March 13 — had been made public on March 14 . |
| 9 | Rescheduling of such debts has become a necessity for the private banks , and a practice which has emerged is that new agreements have been made conditional on such countries accepting the stringent programmes of the IMF which are intended to promote effective adjustment of a country 's balance of payments and ensure that the use of Fund resources is temporary . |
| 10 | On the one side , US aid has been made conditional on action against the drug trade . |
| 11 | The new commitment has been made conditional on other countries taking similar action , which was interpreted by analysts as a reference to the United States , which has thus far refused to agree to reduction targets . |
| 12 | Beforehand , her PR people urge me not to ask her about Eric Clapton ( with whom she has been seen dining on at least one occasion at San Lorenzo 's in London ) , but that she would be willing to talk about her alcoholism . |
| 13 | Others have been offered jobs on lower grades and salaries or short contracts . |
| 14 | Since Schorne was described in an episcopal record in 1273 as a subdeacon and became an incumbent with cure of souls at that time , it is probably wrong to identify him with the namesake collated by Archbishop John Peckham [ q.v. ] to the rectory of Monks Risborough ( Buckinghamshire ) on 24 September 1289 , a man who had been ordained subdeacon on the title of that benefice just twelve days earlier in Kent . |
| 15 | They insisted she had insulted counter girls after she had been refused discount on a slinky black evening dress which she saw hanging on a rail in the fashionable Hyper Hyper clothes store in London 's Kensington High Street . |
| 16 | Yet how many times have Deborah or her brothers and sisters been refused secondment on the ground that they could not be spared either because ‘ there was no money ’ or because Peter , who could very thankfully be released , was sent off instead . |
| 17 | It was reported on May 20 that Syeda Abida Hussain had been appointed adviser on population welfare to the Prime Minister and thus the government 's first woman member with Cabinet status . |
| 18 | The present impregnable appearance of the castle is due to a major restoration in the early years of this century , but there have been fortified buildings on this site since the days of the Viking invaders . |
| 19 | The issue was mastery of western Christendom , over which Charlemagne had been crowned emperor on Christmas Day 800 . |
| 20 | That winter there was another sinister addition to the Germans and the Repubblichini in Fontanellato : Mongols — a people we had heard of but had never seen — who had been taken prisoner on the Russian front and were now attached to the German army . |
| 21 | On Aug. 14 , Georgian National Guard detachments were deployed in Abkhazia , following a televised address by Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze , in which he warned that all measures would be employed to secure the release of Interior Minister Roman Gventsadze and other officials , who had been taken hostage on Aug. 11 by supporters of ousted Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia . |
| 22 | They have been beaten finalists on three occasions and the setbacks now act as a spur to the present squad . |
| 23 | Since Walter Scheel had been elected President on 15 May , Schmidt 's foreign minister was the new FDP leader , Hans-Dietrich Genscher who became , by 1989 , the longest serving foreign minister in the Western world . |