Example sentences of "have be on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additional proposals include setting up an emergency fund to save buildings or sites for the nation and another for historic gardens ( two proposals which have met with approval ) , and cutting back on conservation grants , principally repair grants made to local authorities , amounting to £9.5 million annually , half of which has been on a pound-for-pound basis . |
| 2 | The 59-year-old , who has been on a hectic 10,000-mile round trip to Buenos Aires , said : ‘ I 've only just woken up and my only plans now are to go to bed . ’ |
| 3 | In twenty-four hours she has been on a whistle-stop tour of three countries . |
| 4 | Over the past few weeks , their National Team has been on a British Tour and wherever they play , the house is packed . |
| 5 | However , the emphasis in LMS training has been on a whole-school approach , with governors , teachers , office staff , cleaners , caretakers , technicians , ancillary staff and LEA representatives working together for a full day in a particular school . |
| 6 | Despite the fact that unvented hot water cylinders often come with all the components pre-fitted to the hot water cylinder , the Building Regulations require the use of an ‘ Approved Installer ’ — which means someone who has been on a proper training course . |
| 7 | Mansell has been on a flying visit to the Williams HQ at Didcot in Oxfordshire where he talked about his life and challenges . |
| 8 | The current of three million to grow or rights of access er to the and experience to date has suggested that , that has been on a voluntary necessarily popular on , on a . |
| 9 | Although it is less the case now than in the past , the longer a person has been on a particular committee the greater the likelihood that he or she will eventually succeed either to its chair or to the senior minority party position . |
| 10 | But since that time British manufacturing has been on a strengthening long-term trend . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The engine has been on an electronic diagnosis machine ( like a Sun tester ) and everything was shown to be set just about right . |
| 13 | Most of the NII 's work so far has been on an earlier ‘ reference design ’ , which has now been superseded by a ‘ contract ’ design . |
| 14 | ( Two summers ago , on holiday in Greece with a school pal he had since lost touch with , he 'd been on a small , crowded , ramshackle train heading out of Athens over a scrubby plain in blistering heat . |
| 15 | It would encourage newcomers ; especially if they 'd been on a few walks and seen the problems . |
| 16 | He should have been on a real high , but you can never tell with Seve . |
| 17 | We all know the facts and figures by now … if you do n't then you must have been on a different planet this weekend … |
| 18 | It must have been on a main line , because there were two sets of tracks , and the mouth of the tunnel had seemed to him — he might have been five , six ? — bigger than anything he had ever seen , bigger than anything he had known could exist . |
| 19 | There has been no substantial loss of moorland/rough grassland ; wetland drainage appears to have been on a limited scale and grazing of woodlands is not common practice . |
| 20 | In the magnetic resonance imaging studies subjects who showed the more severe white matter changes had worse recent phenylalanine control and were more likely to have been on a normal diet without protein substitute for longer ( A J Thompson , I Smith , D P Brenton , personal communication ) . |
| 21 | This minority appears to have been on an upward trend ( from 2 per cent of couples both of whom were employees in 1968 to 5 per cent in 1980 — Elias , 1983 ) , but the conclusion of Lynne Hamill 's study of the 1974 FES still stands . |
| 22 | After a while she sat up and slowly began to undress to her camisole and her waist petticoat ; then , turning up the gas that had been on a low jet , she went across the room to the wash-hand stand and poured water from the jug into the basin . |
| 23 | The attack came only five days after another great white killed 34-year-old British-born mother of five Terri Cartwright , who had been on a diving excursion off the island of Tasmania . |
| 24 | Roof trusses , which had been on a two week delivery when we enquired , were three to four weeks delivery when we ordered them . |
| 25 | For it had been on a cold Sunday evening in the spring , after he had been looking over the house with the idea of buying it , that he had happened out of curiosity to ‘ pop in ’ , as fashionable Anglo-Catholics said , to Solemn Evensong and Benediction at St Basil 's at the end of the road . |
| 26 | On the one recent occasion when the Mendoza family had got near winning the Argentine Open , it had been on a grey mare that Alejandro had missed the clinching penalty . |
| 27 | He had been on a life-support machine since the attack . |
| 28 | Since the agreement to let the original refugees out had been on a once-only basis , it was not clear what was going to happen to yesterday 's 1,000-plus new arrivals in Prague . |
| 29 | Her last large expenditure had been on a Royal Doulton tea-service . |
| 30 | As workmen moved in to put up fencing yesterday , more demonstrators joined a small group of protesters who had been on a 24-hour vigil at the site . |