Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years of close military co-operation , including joint work in missile development , have given Egypt valuable information about its former Iraqi ally , which has presumably been passed on to the Americans . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , though creative financing has mostly been stamped on , some councils ' past ingenuity is catching up with them . |
| 3 | The virus has since been passed on to their children , their sexual partners and their partners ' partners . |
| 4 | Many of these have since been taken on by the wider society and are to be found in all its corners influencing even those who would now deny them any real significance and tend to look back on the decade as only times of silliness and self-indulgence . |
| 5 | Previously , the shoe had only been tied on and this greatly impeded the animal 's progress . |
| 6 | But the process has also been a more subtle one , as new initiatives have apparently been tacked on to existing local government . |
| 7 | And er that ai n't been long been built on , that had n't , nineteen er twenty nine those houses were built , do you see ? |
| 8 | There was no comfort in that result , a vote against industrial action , even though it confirmed the suspicion that gone are the old ways of fighting the class war that we 've all been raised on and still have the power to excite me . |
| 9 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 10 | Erm you know but he 's saying the developments of the peasant movement has resulted in the rapid rise in their cultural level erm you know so on the one hand he 's , I mean in a way he 's , he 's trying to re-educate the whole peasant class erm and , and change their way of thinking which previously has obviously been going on , you know , since Confucian |
| 11 | This has already been touched on in Chapter 7 . |
| 12 | The world 's economic relation to Europe has already been touched on ; it was not simply a matter of one-way domination . |
| 13 | Each has already been touched on in passing , but something more needs to be said . |
| 14 | The question of retaining a national scheme rather than creating smaller schemes has already been touched on . |
| 15 | The question of conflict within the marketing function has already been touched on . |
| 16 | The mapping or transformation rules to convert the conceptual model in the form of entities , attributes and relationships , to a logical model which could be relational , hierarchical or network has already been touched on in the relevant sections . |
| 17 | In particular , perhaps , there will be the question of agreeing the partners ' profit shares , the problem of which has already been touched on in Chapter 4 . |
| 18 | ( a ) Expressio unius est exclusio alterius This principle of construction has already been touched on . |
| 19 | The effect of such narrow specialization in subject content and style of teaching has already been remarked on . |
| 20 | ’ But it appears from the fourth plea that that marriage had already been agreed on , and that the testator knew it . |
| 21 | The money has already been agreed on , so not much room for controversy there . |
| 22 | This is the moment when bad theology enters , not — notice this carefully — as a reason for doubt but as a rationale for the doubting which has already been going on . |
| 23 | These steps into a wider world were part of a great process of expansion by western Europe that had already been going on for decades . |
| 24 | Army bomb disposal experts arrived at Dorton late this afternoon to join the search of the trackside that had already been going on for four and a half hours . |
| 25 | And , because of that pressure , the pressure that 's already been put on , we got good news at . |
| 26 | And , because of that pressure , the pressure that 's already been put on , we got good news at . |
| 27 | Oxford District Health authority say they ca n't commentbecause of the threat of legal action , but they say Jasmine 's case has already been acted on . |
| 28 | Then her eyes slowly began to focus and she realised that they had n't just been tossed on to the bed . |
| 29 | Many firms have just been hanging on . |
| 30 | My youngest girl has just been operated on and I could n't believe she only had two stitches . |