Example sentences of "[noun pl] had been [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | A belief in Chinese superiority stemming from a closer approximation to the natural order of the cosmos governed China 's relations with neighbouring peoples , which over centuries had been conducted on a tributary basis . |
| 2 | Similar steps had been taken on May 31 by France and were taken on June 6 by Italy , while the Belgian government warned against eating British beef and set up a health inquiry . |
| 3 | Her accusing eyes had been fixed on the solitary figure who 'd stood a little apart from the others , as if not sure of his right to be there . |
| 4 | His eyes had been feeding on darkness and projections for too long , and now , presented with solid reality , they were befuddled . |
| 5 | During the parrot 's walkabout her eyes had been focused on the chocolate biscuit in silver paper protruding slightly from under Aunt Tossie 's third and last pillow . |
| 6 | Food would be marked with a " P " to indicate that pesticides had been used on a product . |
| 7 | I was no closer to knowing the selection procedure , as my conversations about this with the other recruits had been based on mere speculation and gossip . |
| 8 | Chaovalit 's supporters had been divided on the best course for him to follow . |
| 9 | Four-letter words had been uttered on television before , but never so fulsomely , so splenetically , and never at teatime . |
| 10 | It was reported on Sept. 6 that three Iranians had been arrested on similar charges in Istanbul . |
| 11 | The raid by the RUC 's C13 anti-racketeering squad last week is understood to have been mounted following a complaint by a businessman that money demands had been made on him . |
| 12 | The state of emergency in force since late October in the Gagauz-populated districts had been lifted on Dec. 6 . |
| 13 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 14 | Most of the heads ' experiences had been based on the former , although some of the schools had experienced formula funding since April 1988 . |
| 15 | ( An earlier US plan to use US$1,000 million to subsidise the export of 29,100,000 tonnes of wheat to some 28 countries had been denounced on Oct. 5 by the EC Commission President Jacques Delors as " an aggressive act " . ) |
| 16 | The Cameronians had been caught on the wire . |
| 17 | The companies had been placed on the blacklist after being accused of offering " kickbacks " to win an oil pipeline contract . |
| 18 | From this she deduced that the earlier arrangements had been of hamlets with infields , but , following growth in population , settlements had been replanned on new sites with the coalescence of population and lands . |
| 19 | As a result of this expansion many settlements had been established on land that was of poor quality , such as the high heaths of Dartmoor . |
| 20 | By 1889 , DWEC boasted that more than 12,600 wagons had been made on the site , and 30 new ones were being turned out each week . |
| 21 | There was a photograph of the bedroom in which the bed appeared gargantuan , with a great carved wooden headboard and foot , neatly made , although somebody 's sunglasses had been left on the patchwork quilt . |
| 22 | To relieve the monotony of the black head , yellow sighting lines had been painted on it to enable the golfer to line up his putt on the ‘ sweet spot ’ — the dead centre of the putter head . |
| 23 | In July , 42 food merchants had been executed after being accused of profiteering [ see pp. 39026 ; 39069 ] , and unconfirmed reports in late September said that 26 Iraqis had been executed on unspecified charges of black market currency trading . |
| 24 | By 1987 240 million guilders had been spent on 280 projects in more than 100 cities , with another 200 million for rural facilities . |
| 25 | Her life had been full of pain and perplexity ; it is not too much to say that her emotional needs had been fastened on a man whom she never properly understood , and that he in turn was baffled and then enraged by her insistent and neurotic demands upon him . |
| 26 | He suggested that , given the nature of the wounds , it seemed that knuckledusters and razors had been used on members of the public . |
| 27 | The SNM stated that the relief workers had been riding on a government military lorry ; such lorries were subject to routine attack and they appealed to relief agencies to be " independent " in performing their duties . |
| 28 | The limit imposed by the state of Missouri on malpractice lawsuit awards had been challenged on behalf of a 13-year-old girl , Nicole Adams , who at the age of eight had been left blind and brain-damaged by an anaesthesia error during a skin graft operation . |
| 29 | The two component parts of Owen 's productive classes had been placed on the opposite sides of a divide ; and their separation into ‘ them and us ’ was now so far completed as to have become irreversible . |
| 30 | The protests had been triggered on Feb. 25 by the paper set in the 1992 General Access Test ( PGA ) ( university entrance examination ) . |