Example sentences of "[been] [verb] on a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the passing of the FSA 1986 regulation has been placed on a far more formal rule-orientated basis than previously . |
| 2 | He was entitled to his moment of pride ; shooting had gone well on the set of The Viking — astonishingly well considering it had been done on a ludicrously small budget and with television crews much more accustomed to slapstick children 's shows than gritty drama . |
| 3 | Financial institutions have thus been encouraged to move into new areas of business , but at the same time have been regulated on a more formal basis than before . |
| 4 | In Colombia , Trichoplusia ni NPV has been used on a very large scale against T. ni larvae on cotton . |
| 5 | But , all those years ago , she simply had n't been experienced enough to realise that , despite those wonderful and ecstatic nights of passion , her marriage to Ross had been founded on a disastrously thin layer of quicksand ; a relationship which would crack and disintegrate under the first onslaught of any stress and tension . |
| 6 | Norway 's brilliant market has been based on a clear cut recovery situation after the trough of 1986 . |
| 7 | Because Messiahship was regarded as something dynastic , something in part dependent upon a bloodline , people 's attention , as we observed before , would have been focused on a relatively small network of interlinked families who could claim descent from both David and Aaron . |
| 8 | For example , this selection of flowers could have been framed in a pale green mount , or the entire design could have been created on a very pale blue-grey background with no mount at all , both of which would have given a very different emphasis to the pink roses . |
| 9 | Both accounts demonstrate that , until Stanislav Ulam 's observation that X-rays could be used to propagate an instant fusion reaction , Teller had been working on a fundamentally impractical design . |
| 10 | If this does not happen the person will quickly become disgruntled and disillusioned ; worse , they may feel that they have been recruited on a totally false basis . |