Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your letter dated the 19th May to Wales Wildlife and Countryside Link has been passed on to me in my capacity as Vice Chair of the Link , but more relevantly perhaps as Director of CPRW . |
| 2 | No decision has been taken on wether prosecutions will arise from the case . |
| 3 | Substantial progress has been made on , for example , the Northampton line and the Thames and Chiltern lines and will shortly be made on the Kent link lines . |
| 4 | The needless slaughter has been going on for more than a century . |
| 5 | All the responsibility has been thrown on to the regulatory body OFTEL , when it might have been possible to help the market work better . |
| 6 | There are a number of problems caused by a protracted campaign — and arguably , this election has been going on since last autumn when everyone started wondering whether Major could pull it off . |
| 7 | The psychoanalysts might suggest that your own temporary alteration of intellectual function has been projected on to me . ’ |
| 8 | Although the National Certificate , with its competence-based , internally-assessed modules , has almost become part of the educational establishment now , we should not forget that Scotland led the way in the development of this kind of award and our experience has been drawn on in subsequent moves to make all Britain 's vocational qualifications modular and competence-based . |
| 9 | As the person to whom the original impetus was often attributed , it is worth noting that he was able to distinguish the project investment from associated developments , pointing out with approval that : about 20% of the library Project money has been spent on … stuff that I have asked for quite specifically in terms of expeditions and integrated studies … |
| 10 | That cap capability has been carried on by our own Airforce and indeed the Royal Airforce and our fellow partners in , in NATO . |
| 11 | South Cambridgeshire District Council has recognized the important part that environmental health officers have to play within the work of the District Council , and for some time now the work of the Department has been carried on under the hat of the Legal , Housing and Health Director . |
| 12 | Haunting has been going on for years and years and years . |
| 13 | Since receiving the award Daran has been taken on permanently and is being trained in all aspects of the turbine industry . |
| 14 | Salim presents himself in a light which requires the reader to be told that , although he himself has been making good , he is grieved , or affects to be , by the discovery that the slavish Metty has been getting on : ‘ You 've been very much getting on as though you 're your own man . ’ |
| 15 | Just as most large organizations and systems have found important uses for the computer in accounting and housekeeping operations , so also large libraries , whether public , academic or special , have tended to put their acquisitions and other operations on to computer , and considerable experiment has been going on with the applications of computerization to information retrieval . |
| 16 | No action has been taken on this . |
| 17 | No legislative action has been taken on either recommendation . |
| 18 | There were reports of opposition supporters having been fired on in Tbilisi the following day . |
| 19 | In anticipation of bumper Christmas sales , new stock had been crowded on to every available surface and spilled across the floor . |
| 20 | After three centuries of decline , the first steps had been taken on the path to restoration . |
| 21 | Alongside the notice was another one from the cricket club stating that the offer to the rugby club had been made on on April 9 and , as joint owners of the ground , the cricket club had been informed . |
| 22 | But the press had already been tipped off : Mrs Simpson 's car had been booked on to the Channel steamer in her own name . |
| 23 | We carried on a rather halting conversation and it came to me with a bump that my mind had been forced on to different tracks since I had left her . |
| 24 | Shards of glass were still falling 12 hours after the blast and computers had been blown on to the pavement . |
| 25 | Cars had been laid on in advance by Tom Warner 's telegram , and we were soon settled in our respective suites or rooms in the C.P.R. 's palatial Hotel Saskatchewan . |
| 26 | Now for me at least the light had been turned on . |
| 27 | When customers complained , they were blithely informed that while Ma Rainey sang , an electric light had been switched on in the studio . |
| 28 | The light had been left on , forgotten . |
| 29 | Her admirer had already been bound over to keep the peace after being arrested on her doorstep , and his unwelcome attentions had been going on for over six years . |
| 30 | Something of an extravaganza had been laid on , of course . |