Example sentences of "[been] [verb] on [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These techniques have been relied on increasingly to evaluate vomiting infants . |
| 2 | Eight authors and seven illustrators have been placed on unusually long shortlists for the Carnegie and Greenaway Awards . |
| 3 | Although this excess seems to be a constant feature of all studies of acute renal failure , it has not been commented on before . |
| 4 | LASMO 's production , shown on page 22 , has similarly been presented on both the working interest and entitlement basis . |
| 5 | Numerous quantitative studies have been done on both birds and mammals in the last twenty years ( reviews in Immelmann , 1972 ; Bateson , 1978a ) and have shown that early experience can have profound and lasting effects on sexual preferences . |
| 6 | Father McGiff , however , did not himself seem to share the surprise and it was clear that his participation had been decided on beforehand . |
| 7 | All statistical comparisons have therefore been made on logarithmically transformed data . |
| 8 | Restriction orders banning cattle movement and sale of milk and meat have now been imposed on more than 300 farms , mostly in Cornwall and Devon but also in the Midlands . |
| 9 | Books have been written on just one aspect of one creature and yet have never reached the end of the story . |
| 10 | It would have been nice to have had somebody so that they could have been turned on together by the faint giggles and murmured conversation coming from upstairs . |
| 11 | The other group consists of countries for whom the deterioration of the US payments balance and the inflow of speculative funds generated a faster rate of monetary expansion , and lower interest rates , than would have been adopted on purely domestic criteria . |
| 12 | The following story has been told on more than one occasion : |
| 13 | Instead , the Chambers villa has been sold on separately to a local construction company . |
| 14 | The climax was in sight : the seeds of doubt had been sown on almost every campus across America , in the churches , in the press , in Congress . |
| 15 | The efficiency of this mechanism has been challenged on both theoretical and empirical grounds . |
| 16 | So obviously no one who 's got an establishment contract will be affected from the first of July , but really everyone who 's on a temporary contract , those contracts are very much in the melting pot , and we 've got a meeting on the nineteenth of May s an extra C S M T meeting , to say , right this is how much money we 've got , these are the people with temporary contracts but the third and most important factor really is this is a new assessment of the workload of every office , and whereas in the past careers officer establishment has been based exclusively on year eleven figures and other staffing has been based on pretty arbitrary factors of historical nature |
| 17 | In his 1979 budget Sir Geoffrey Howe claimed that in the past public spending had been based on falsely optimistic expectations about economic resources : ‘ It is this falsely reassuring belief that somehow the resources will be found to permit an uninterrupted expansion of public expenditure that this government challenges . |
| 18 | However , few of the statistical methods have achieved more than a 70 per cent explanation rate , and furthermore , the regressions have often been based on very small samples of professional people , and the mechanistic techniques have cloaked what is essentially unquantifiable with an indefensible professional mysticism . |
| 19 | No they 're not but they 've been getting on all right really . |
| 20 | All she could recollect was that she 'd been amazed to find that they 'd been born on practically the same day in August : she on the sixth , and he on the eighth . |
| 21 | Furthermore , a large proportion of the budget has been spent on both internal security and the war with Angola . |
| 22 | The race could have been laid on especially for that horse you rode before . |
| 23 | If you have an even number of needles , after two rows every needle has been knitted once ; whereas if you have an odd number of stitches , then the same needles have been knitted on both rows and will go on being knitted on subsequent rows so that eventually the carriage jams . |
| 24 | Understanding the process is of considerable importance however , and it is this which has been focused on here . |
| 25 | But so far , efforts have been focused on purely military solutions . |
| 26 | There are many advantages to having a care manager , ‘ someone in charge out there ’ , and this has long been recognized as essential , although in the past this recognition has not been focused on as closely as under the current care management system . |
| 27 | The English language , as has been observed on more than one occasion , is frequently susceptible of ambiguity . |
| 28 | Thus the system would differentiate between a context independent unit for as in band and a unit that had been trained on just the instances of occurring in the context of such words as and or an . |
| 29 | A variety of different survey methods have been touched on above , in describing studies related to circulation , in-house use and availability . |
| 30 | One aspect of the organization underground has not been touched on directly ; that is the pressure on individuals either by the management or the owners to comply with their interpretation of the order of things . |