Example sentences of "[been] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been on the right road , he was certain of it . |
| 2 | ( In fact , the French lines there on February 21st were no better prepared than they had been on the Right Bank , and the rejoinder that if he had not had adequate forces he should not have undertaken the offensive in the first place is almost too obvious ) . |
| 3 | or Alan been on the standard course that can go on the A L O course . |
| 4 | Ever since then , Labour has been on the defensive , both ideologically and demographically . |
| 5 | Well they have n't done it , that with us , we 've been on the thirty days and just no |
| 6 | But of course , Agnes realised , Sims — or whoever he 'd been born — must once have been on the far side of The Wall , too . |
| 7 | WHILE our attention has been on the General Election and its aftermath , the Serbs have been up to their old tricks . |
| 8 | Both the new leader and the modernisation programme had previously been on the political scene , but at the end of the 1970s they appeared to be in a much stronger position than ever before . |
| 9 | Reform of the rating system has long been on the political agenda . |
| 10 | If there was any honour in this Government , Mr Heseltine 's resignation would have been on the Prime Minister 's desk at the same time as the High Court judgment . |
| 11 | At Vladimir , Holly had been categorized as a foreigner , he had been on the second floor of the hospital block and allowed special food and privileges . |
| 12 | Any higher and we would have been on the bloody roof , and squeezed into rather mean , dark garrets . |
| 13 | The 1980s have seen a public debate about the effects upon the economy of the growing proportion of old people in Britain ; and the stress has been on the increasing burden of costs that will result ( Department of Health and Social Security ( DHSS ) , 1985 ) . |
| 14 | She had seen him on the telly — he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet . |
| 15 | In actual fact I have bent over backwards , I was the only councillor that went and welcomed one of our new ke tenant farmers quite recently , having been on the agricultural environment protection committee and been on a board of er interview panel . |
| 16 | On the other hand , though , it has to be said that some of the local urban excitements have been on the tame side recently : a swimming pool murder , an outbreak of cholesterol war between rival pizza outlets , the car that drove into the non-drive-in dry cleaners , and so on . |
| 17 | The crucial question was : where had he been on the eleventh ? |
| 18 | All hell would have been let loose by the French plants and the French Government if the boot had been on the other foot and anyone had attempted to transfer products and facilities from France to the UK . |
| 19 | I 've been on the other side of things often enough — guitar in hand , waiting for someone behind a mixing desk to give me the word to start playing — but they 'd never actually let me touch anything ! |
| 20 | ‘ The whole town pretended to be scandalised , but if the boot had been on the other foot — if Sidney , or anybody else for that matter , had done the same thing to Riddle — they would have had a good laugh and it would have been looked upon as good business . ’ |
| 21 | And when Jessamy had tried to speak to Julius at his office , Eleanor had always been on the other end of the phone , trotting out some barely plausible excuse why Julius could n't talk to her . |
| 22 | Perhaps they had been on the other side of the ditch all the time and were hidden by it now . |
| 23 | However the assignment took a little bit longer than it er than if he 'd been on the other product range . |
| 24 | I 've been on the other end I 've had people come sell it for to me . |
| 25 | It was Bob Crayshaw who said peevishly : ‘ Trade 's been on the downward path since the war with America . |
| 26 | Before his reign the site would have been on the southernmost borders of the empire ; when he died it was at the empire 's heart . |
| 27 | It is inevitable that much of the debate has been on the European Community and on what my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary said in his opening speech . |
| 28 | Quorum , which says some of the blame for Equal 's delay has been on the legal hassle it had last year with Apple Computer Inc , which held up financing and staffing , will position the product as a Mac application adaptor rather than an emulator . |
| 29 | Quorum , who says some of the blame for Equal 's delay has been on the legal hassle it had last year with Apple ( UX No 393 ) which held up financing and staffing , will position Equal as a Mac application adapter rather than an emulator . |
| 30 | I should have been on the following flight to bring you back . |