Example sentences of "have [been] [adj] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the light of what has been available on the market between 1986 and 1989 , it is fascinating to see what was not acquired as well as what has been bought . |
| 2 | Terry Venables has been keen on the 23-year-old for months and armed with over £2million from the Stewart sale , is set to move in on the £1.2m-rated player . |
| 3 | ‘ The reception of the telecottage has been brilliant on the island , ’ enthuses Hardcastle , a Mancunian whose Hoy holidays gradually became permanent . |
| 4 | Exceptional in its moderacy , the report discounted the fear of imitative crime , arguing that ‘ it certainly has not been proved that the increase in juvenile crime generally has been consequent on the cinema ’ . |
| 5 | But acceptance has been conditional on the university being able to raise £1.5 million to build a suitable building , and to conserve and endow the collection . |
| 6 | In recent years , since he has been successful on the track . |
| 7 | Nothing looks worse , and does a poorer job , than a worm which has been stuck on the hook several times and looks as though it has been tied in a knot . |
| 8 | Instead it is because success has been dependent on the ability to win the argument on each individual placement with each head teacher that this investment , as part of the in-service programme , is worthwhile . |
| 9 | Apart from this industrial , political , and mob violence , however , there has been the ongoing pressure of the seemingly inexorably high level of ‘ ordinary ’ crime , the control of which has been high on the agenda for ten years . |
| 10 | Since the resurgence of the women 's movement in the early 1970s and its subsequent development into feminism ( less an activist social movement than a political body of thought and cultural practices ) , film , as Annette Kuhn and others have pointed out , has been high on the agenda of women working for social change . |
| 11 | She has been active on the London fringe , playing the title part in Strindberg 's Miss Julie , Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Ernest and other parts . |
| 12 | Obair has been active on the question of employment , unemployment and training for people in West Belfast since 1987 . |
| 13 | West Belfast Action for the Unemployed has been active on the punitive effects of social security policies on unemployed people in the area . |
| 14 | When comedy work has been thin on the ground , Allen has carved out a healthy career as a straight actor , popping up in the unlikeliest of places : as a minion of fictitious Prime Minister Harry Perkins in A Very British Coup , as an impeccably sleazy reporter in Scandal and most recently as permarandy Rex , the dyspeptic boss of Lyne Electronics in the BBC 's Making Out . |
| 15 | She 'd been sick on the floor . |
| 16 | She 'd been sick on the floor . |
| 17 | The maximum ACT offset is limited to the amount of tax that would have been payable on the profits assuming they had been charged at the basic rate of tax ( s 239(2) ) . |
| 18 | On 16 October 1991 , after a hearing in chambers to consider wasted costs after the jury in a criminal trial had been discharged and a retrial ordered , Judge MacRae made an order against the appellant , H. , a barrister who had acted as defence counsel at the trial , disallowing ‘ such part of the brief fee which would otherwise have been payable on the initial trial as exceeds what would be the proper enhanced refresher for the retrial … ’ under the provisions of section 19A(1) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 , as inserted by section 111 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 . |
| 19 | Eventually , when this somewhat bizarre meeting ended , the judge made an order by which he purported to ‘ disallow such part of the brief fee which would otherwise have been payable on the [ partial ] trial as exceeds what would be the proper enhanced refresher for the retrial . ’ |
| 20 | The idea may then be for the surviving spouse to give the property ( which she took under the deed of variation ) to the children and make a potentially exempt transfer under IHTA 1984 , s3A : provided she survives seven years no inheritance tax will have been payable on the death or on the gift or indeed on her death by reference to the property which she gave to the children . |
| 21 | This means that in the case of a community service order , the court which revokes the order must sentence the offender to a sentence which would have been available on the occasion when the community service order was made , and if it is considering whether the offender qualifies for a custodial sentence for the purposes of Criminal Justice Act 1982 , s.1(4) and 1(4A) , must consider his history and attitude on the day when the original order was made . |
| 22 | The launch of the NHS information management and technology strategy in December may not have been high on the agenda of most practising doctors . |
| 23 | It is always interesting to note how handicappers assess maiden race form in comparison with sellers , and in allotting Peak District a 17lb higher rating than Dari Sound , the official may have been over-harsh on the former . |
| 24 | The court suggests that if the defendant ( D ) had ( wrongly ) believed himself to be liable to pay the charges , he would not have been liable on the notes ; but , because he ( rightly ) believed himself not to be liable to pay the charges , he is liable on the notes . |
| 25 | It was very quiet ; except for the sigh of the wind , they might have been alone on the planet . |
| 26 | All may have been quiet on the 808 State front over the last year but , far from resting on their laurels , the techno titans have been locked in the studio , ripping it up on the mixing desk . |
| 27 | I think that we should have been safe on the track until they got others to come with them . |
| 28 | I must have been mad on the strength of one fish , going all out boilies but it was a double and I just had a feeling this was how the better fish might fall . |
| 29 | Most of the high-tech inward investment in Ireland is concentrated around Dublin and in Cork , and it seems to have been remiss on the part of the Industrial 7Development Agency that having enticed DEC to Galway , it was not able to turn the town into a centre of high-tech inward investment so that if DEC — or others — pulled out , there was every chance of attracting new ones . |
| 30 | Most of the Coptic vessels found in Kent are types which Werner ( 1957 ; 1961 ) has shown to have been common on the Continent , but outside Kent there are a large number of rarities . |