Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] on a " in BNC.

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1 ENGINEERS at Philips in Britain have secretly been working on a flat screen television for several years , while hotly denying the fact .
2 English wine growers have only been operating on a commercial basis for the past 20 years .
3 ‘ Suffice to say that six of those invoices , supposedly coming from Rasiklal in Bombay , had apparently been typed on an Inca typewriter in England , ’ said prosecutor James Curtis .
4 The procedures developed during this particular investigation have all been conducted on a Computer Vision turnkey system .
5 At the event the desktop publisher was basking in the reflected glory when a lady sitting next to him suddenly said ‘ Oh dear , it 's all been done on a computer . ’
6 But colonialism , the tensions caused by a feudal economy 's reaction to capitalism and finally the effects of capitalism itself have all been imposed on a social structure which can be traced much further back .
7 Recent rights issues , takeovers and even foreign exchange losses have all been sprung on an unsuspecting public rather than , as was the pattern in the mid-1980s , infiltrating the market through the columns of the Sunday newspapers .
8 These situations are represented by businesses which : ( i ) are offered for sale in credible circumstances and on realistic term ; ( ii ) in respect of which the initiating member has not been retained on an exclusive basis ; and ( iii ) which on their merits would warrant international marketing if the initiating member had been retained on an exclusive basis .
9 For example , by looking at a pot , it may be suspected that it has not been thrown on a wheel but has been made from coils of clay , joined together and smoothed by hand to form the wall of the pot .
10 THE whistle has finally been blown on a controversial battle over a five-a-side football complex in Middlesbrough .
11 A very large amount had already been collected on a voluntary basis by religious groups for the Famine , making it seem almost superfluous or extortionate to do more .
12 ( At this point agreement had already been reached on a number of issues , including revised provisions on human rights , environmental protection and birth control measures ; the admission of new members ; and the doubling of the new convention 's duration to 10 years . )
13 David Campese has already been signed on a full-time marketing role and a Farr-Jones will also have a strong role in Channel Ten 's rugby presentations .
14 His expression was severe and disapproving as if he 'd just been sucking on a slice of lemon .
15 This book is also different to ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ because there are no racist scenes , only prejudice towards Imamu from both the Police and in some cases the Aimsleys , when their daughter goes missing and they think that because he is a street boy who comes from Harlem , a lower class area than Brooklyn and that he has just been acquitted on a murder rap , he 's got something to do with Perk 's disappearance .
16 When Creed called , Jed was watching a news report about a vulture who 'd just been arrested on a murder charge .
17 Council houses were sold and buses ‘ deregulated ’ ( although the housing association sector seems set to expand dramatically in the 1990s ) , but the bulk of existing public housing remained in council hands , and public transport has always been run on a semi-market basis , with the charging of fares coupled with separately identified public subsidy .
18 Previously the budget had always been allocated on a historical basis .
19 The agreement will cost the Basque authorities the equivalent of a total of £108 million ( $189 million ) , which is more than has ever been spent on a single cultural project in Bilbao since the city 's decision to create a Fine Art Museum in 1908 .
20 Have you ever been working on a program late at night that throws up error codes with a number such as ‘ ERROR CODE 201 ’ which means nothing at all to you .
21 At this period in time Highlander had also been working on a community health program , the broad aim of which was ;
22 SCOTVEC has also been working on a catalogue of extra additional assessments for the first phase of general SVQs , in order to provide candidates with a wider choice of assessments .
23 The Lower Mill site had clearly been re-used on a number of occasions , as references during the 16th century describe it as a structure of mud walls with a thatched roof .
24 Most academic teaching posts in universities ( but not public sector higher education ) have traditionally been offered on a ‘ tenured ’ basis , so that academic staff can lose their job only on grounds of professional misconduct ( and not on such grounds as redundancy or financial exigency ) .
25 The latest , which has now been introduced on a voluntary basis , is that , instead of one of his A levels , a pupil may take two AS ( supplementary ) level examinations , demanding half the time each of a full A level .
26 Fujitsu has reportedly been working on a 75MHz part supposedly called Tsunami Plus for some time but still has no contract with Sun ( UX No 373 ) .
27 Er or indeed you know , the issue er of a job which had n't been done on a particular machine er but was timed on another one .
28 Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc have successfully completed their project to bring the Macintosh system to mainstream computing , but no decision has yet been made on a commercial follow-up : Novell chief financial officer James Tolonen says the companies wanted to see whether Macintosh System could run atop a different operating system and on a different chip , yet still maintain the user-friendly features of the Apple system .
29 Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc have successfully completed their project to bring the Macintosh system to mainstream computing , but no decision has yet been made on a commercial follow-up , Novell chief financial officer James Tolonen told the Hambrecht & Quist conference .
30 Another possible reason is if the same file had previously been written on a 360K drive ; it 's wider track confuses the low capacity drive 's read heads when reading the higher capacity drive 's over-printed trace .
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