Example sentences of "have [been] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Congress 's disarray — radical democrats argue that it should be disbanded — has been on embarrassing display this week as deputies argued over what to call their state . |
| 3 | One of the Moths now at Mandevelle has been on static display in a motor museum for years , and is now almost ready to leap into the air again ; an excellent idea . |
| 4 | Most of the research on this has been on conversational interaction of a rather restricted kind , such as between doctor and patient , teacher and pupil or between the various speakers in court cases . |
| 5 | There are those who would tell you that BMW 's reputation for first-class finish has been on thin ice for some time but , until now , we 've seen little evidence to substantiate the claim . |
| 6 | At every C&P plant there is concern about energy conservation but emphasis in recent years has been on improving product quality — something which often uses more energy without increasing output . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The main emphasis of the HIDB has been on halting depopulation by the saving and creation of employment . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | He has been on sick leave for more than three months during which Avon County Council has been inquiring into phone calls said to have been made from his Bristol office to soft-porn ‘ adult ’ 0898 numbers . |
| 11 | Miss Scanlon , who is in her 20s , has been on sick leave for four months . |
| 12 | Since September ‘ 92 , one of the Enterprise Development Officers , Allison Hughes , has been on sick leave . |
| 13 | Dr Carol Starkie has been on sick leave from Selly Oak hospital since May 25 , South Birmingham Health Authority said . |
| 14 | But the SA Rugby Board has traditionally had the major slice of South Africa 's rugby cake , built as this has been on white wealth , sponsorship , patronage , assets , expertise , media coverage and the rest . |
| 15 | I must I must have been I must have been on good form that day |
| 16 | after leading Sunderland to the FA Cup final last May.But he appears to have been on borrowed time ever since . |
| 17 | But he appears to have been on borrowed time ever since . |
| 18 | Immediately after the war , the Department of Antiquities in Baghdad compiled a four-volume list of missing objects ; many of these had been on long term loan from the Baghdad Museum to regional museums in Iraq . |
| 19 | PC James Connolly , 37 , had been on long-term sick-leave for several months with depression and police are worried for his safety . |
| 20 | Employees of the publicly owned public transport company EAS had been on indefinite strike since July 23 and the army had been running a reduced transport service in the capital . |
| 21 | Mum always bragged about never borrowing off anyone but I had noticed that since Dad had been on short time she seemed to have more money than ever to spend and was getting more friendly with the neighbours she could not stand as a rule . |
| 22 | The embalmed corpse of Georgi Dimitrov , Bulgaria 's Communist leader from 1946 until his death in 1949 , was removed on July 18 from the mausoleum in central Sofia where it had been on public display , and was cremated in a private ceremony . |
| 23 | His appointment as curator of Sir John Soane 's Museum at a salary of £300 p.a. was announced on 16 July 1904 ; he had been acting curator while his predecessor George H. Birch [ q.v. ] had been on sick leave . |
| 24 | In Northern Ireland Constable Louis Robinson , an off-duty member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary who had been on sick leave for three years , was kidnapped from a minibus at an IRA roadblock near the border at Killeen , South Armagh , on Sept. 15 . |
| 25 | It was his first encounter with Zhou , director in Hong Kong of the New China News Agency , who had been on sick leave ; it had been billed as a " get to know you " meeting , which would sidestep controversial issues . |
| 26 | Many of the girls wanted to ask about domestic details such as rationing , clothes and saying goodbye to boyfriends while the boys frequently said they wanted to interview the men to find out if they had been on active service or if they had killed anyone . |
| 27 | They had been on Christian name terms for some time now . |
| 28 | I 've been on automatic pilot for 25 years . |
| 29 | All four have been on unconditional bail since October last year . |
| 30 | Since then they have been on active duty in Aden , Persian Gulf , Malaya , Borneo , Northern Ireland , and Operation Desert Storm in the Gulf . |