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 | THE whistle has finally been blown on a controversial battle over a five-a-side football complex in Middlesbrough . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ( 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 . ) |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | His expression was severe and disapproving as if he 'd just been sucking on a slice of lemon . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When Creed called , Jed was watching a news report about a vulture who 'd just been arrested on a murder charge . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Previously the budget had always been allocated on a historical basis . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | At this period in time Highlander had also been working on a community health program , the broad aim of which was ; |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This variant on the social dumping argument has however been challenged on a number of grounds . |
| 29 | ‘ They were going to try a new drug on him which had never been tested on a human being before in an effort to try and stop the progress of the tumour . |
| 30 | Many farmers still retained some milk for cheesemaking but regulations on the production and use of milk during the Second World War almost brought farmhouse production to a halt and it has never been resumed on an appreciable scale . |