Example sentences of "the [noun sg] have been on " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many times have you sat down at your machine and thought ‘ I do n't think I can cope with this ’ and within the next five minutes all the knitting has been on the floor ? |
| 2 | Most of the talk has been on the Rocastle situation . |
| 3 | Here , Stoddard Templeton was well known ; all the staff in the department having been on sales training courses at Elderslie , which they recalled with morale boosting enthusiasm . |
| 4 | The 23-year-old has been on a weekly contract since last season , but emerged as a leading figure following the injury to Paul Elliott . |
| 5 | The British Library Research and Development Department , which , along with the National Foundation for Educational Research in England and Wales and the Schools Council , has funded most of this research , is aware of that problem , and using a standing committee called the Discussion Group on User Education in Schools , it is endeavouring to bring the research into general practice , and even to extend the influence of the work into other levels of education , eg primary schools ( the concentration has been on secondary education so far ) . |
| 6 | The engine has been on an electronic diagnosis machine ( like a Sun tester ) and everything was shown to be set just about right . |
| 7 | The hospitaller had been on the verge of striking Sir John and , once that happened , well , Athelstan knew Cranston . |
| 8 | The shop has been on the market for over a year , and I have been unable to find a buyer . |
| 9 | More recently the focus has been on literature which might be thought of as racially damaging . |
| 10 | Throughout most of this period the focus has been on government records and then mainly at a national level , although in rare instances the issues have been addressed at a more local level . |
| 11 | Originally the tax had been on each house ( or chimney ) and not a lump sum paid by diocese , and in 1205 Innocent III attempted to get the full amount , seeking Peter 's Pence " from each house that smoke comes out of " . |
| 12 | For the past six weeks at Bristol Crown Court three companies involved in the manufacture or supply of the gantry have been on trail . |
| 13 | Most of the restoration has been on the exterior of the buildings ; most of the interiors are still as they were the day the Germans were defeated . |
| 14 | All hell would have been let loose by the French plants and the French Government if the boot had been on the other foot and anyone had attempted to transfer products and facilities from France to the UK . |
| 15 | ‘ The whole town pretended to be scandalised , but if the boot had been on the other foot — if Sidney , or anybody else for that matter , had done the same thing to Riddle — they would have had a good laugh and it would have been looked upon as good business . ’ |
| 16 | The rest has been on average just over one gramme . |
| 17 | The 1980s have seen a public debate about the effects upon the economy of the growing proportion of old people in Britain ; and the stress has been on the increasing burden of costs that will result ( Department of Health and Social Security ( DHSS ) , 1985 ) . |
| 18 | Indeed , in most examples , the emphasis has been on social systems in which males sporting the elaborate character are polygamous and have little to do with other aspects of reproduction . |
| 19 | So far in this discussion the emphasis has been on the voluntary nature of the ‘ obligations ’ of the active citizen , which is to be encouraged through the educational system and in other ways about which , it must be said , there is fairly broad agreement across the political spectrum . |
| 20 | Rather , the emphasis has been on reviewing health authority performance on a more aggregate level , through the development of performance indicators ( DHSS , 1983 ) , supported by the review process . |
| 21 | So far the emphasis has been on fission , where the nuclei of heavy elements such as uranium fragment into smaller pieces . |
| 22 | As the fashion for hair has moved away from the hard , artificial post-punk era towards more natural styles , the emphasis has been on hair care products that promote softness and shine . |
| 23 | Since the Federal Court in the Eastern District of Texas , and subsequently the Fifth Circuit Federal Appellate Court seated in New Orleans intervened , the pendulum has swung and the emphasis has been on detailed rules to cover all contingencies , the implementation of which is far less dependent on the quality of individual personnel . |
| 24 | The emphasis has been on establishing laws governing these phenomena and creating a predictive science of social facts . |
| 25 | However , against the background of government concern over inner-city disturbances , picket line violence , the Greenham Common demonstrations and other large scale protests , the emphasis has been on preserving order and minimising public inconvenience rather than facilitating effective protest . |
| 26 | The problem we in Europe face is that Japanese companies have been active in scaling up production for some years , whereas in Europe the emphasis has been on high-quality research , which has only been significantly exploited in the area of basic liquid crystal materials . |
| 27 | Instead we have seen the rise of ideas like theme restaurants , where the emphasis has been on the theme and not on the quality of the food . |
| 28 | The point has been well put by Vivien Hart in comparing American and British approaches : " In America , " she wrote , " the emphasis has been on what democracy is and should be , while Britain has been characterised by a more pragmatic and less urgent emphasis on what democracy is and can be . " |
| 29 | In 1991 , the emphasis has been on the achievement of ISO 9002 registration and the introduction of MRPII as Kodak works towards manufacturing excellence associated with World Class Companies . |
| 30 | It is also dependent , however , on how long the baby has been on morphine and is , to a certain extent , a matter of individual assessment ( including observation of withdrawal signs ) and prescribing . |