Example sentences of "have been [verb] on [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It prefers lime-rich ground and has been recorded on only 20 occasions in Britain . |
| 2 | The English language , as has been observed on more than one occasion , is frequently susceptible of ambiguity . |
| 3 | So obviously no one who 's got an establishment contract will be affected from the first of July , but really everyone who 's on a temporary contract , those contracts are very much in the melting pot , and we 've got a meeting on the nineteenth of May s an extra C S M T meeting , to say , right this is how much money we 've got , these are the people with temporary contracts but the third and most important factor really is this is a new assessment of the workload of every office , and whereas in the past careers officer establishment has been based exclusively on year eleven figures and other staffing has been based on pretty arbitrary factors of historical nature |
| 4 | The efficiency of this mechanism has been challenged on both theoretical and empirical grounds . |
| 5 | Furthermore , a large proportion of the budget has been spent on both internal security and the war with Angola . |
| 6 | The following story has been told on more than one occasion : |
| 7 | The election here has been fought on more fundamental issues than have been allowed to surface in England : in particular , the constitution . |
| 8 | Understanding the process is of considerable importance however , and it is this which has been focused on here . |
| 9 | Instead , the Chambers villa has been sold on separately to a local construction company . |
| 10 | All she could recollect was that she 'd been amazed to find that they 'd been born on practically the same day in August : she on the sixth , and he on the eighth . |
| 11 | The other group consists of countries for whom the deterioration of the US payments balance and the inflow of speculative funds generated a faster rate of monetary expansion , and lower interest rates , than would have been adopted on purely domestic criteria . |
| 12 | Indeed , his account of their interests gives the impression — and perhaps gave the same impression to Lanfranc — that they were a lot of old gossips chattering about wonders and miracles and gifts of relics , when they should have been engaged on more serious religious observances , or on the studies laid down in the Rule . |
| 13 | It would have been nice to have had somebody so that they could have been turned on together by the faint giggles and murmured conversation coming from upstairs . |
| 14 | She protested that they should n't have been put on there without her authority , and the farm chaps laughed and said , ‘ You wo n't be wanting that again . ’ |
| 15 | The race could have been laid on especially for that horse you rode before . |
| 16 | In his 1979 budget Sir Geoffrey Howe claimed that in the past public spending had been based on falsely optimistic expectations about economic resources : ‘ It is this falsely reassuring belief that somehow the resources will be found to permit an uninterrupted expansion of public expenditure that this government challenges . |
| 17 | The report had been scribbled on obscenely in an infants'-school hand , presumably by the Mayor himself . |
| 18 | Despite the fact that the savage beating of King , who was black , had been filmed by an onlooker , the four officers had been acquitted on almost all state charges by a predominantly white jury [ see p. 38856 ] . |
| 19 | Thus the system would differentiate between a context independent unit for as in band and a unit that had been trained on just the instances of occurring in the context of such words as and or an . |
| 20 | Father McGiff , however , did not himself seem to share the surprise and it was clear that his participation had been decided on beforehand . |
| 21 | The story current was that on its return flight the plane had been fired on mistakenly by a naval vessel in the Channel — the sea was full of our shipping , of course , in the weeks after D-Day , and there was a corresponding absence of German fighters . |
| 22 | Nella also sensed that an exorcism had been tried on more than one occasion — but without success . |
| 23 | The climax was in sight : the seeds of doubt had been sown on almost every campus across America , in the churches , in the press , in Congress . |
| 24 | No they 're not but they 've been getting on all right really . |
| 25 | Eight authors and seven illustrators have been placed on unusually long shortlists for the Carnegie and Greenaway Awards . |
| 26 | Numerous quantitative studies have been done on both birds and mammals in the last twenty years ( reviews in Immelmann , 1972 ; Bateson , 1978a ) and have shown that early experience can have profound and lasting effects on sexual preferences . |
| 27 | A variety of different survey methods have been touched on above , in describing studies related to circulation , in-house use and availability . |
| 28 | Books have been written on just one aspect of one creature and yet have never reached the end of the story . |
| 29 | These techniques have been relied on increasingly to evaluate vomiting infants . |
| 30 | If you have an even number of needles , after two rows every needle has been knitted once ; whereas if you have an odd number of stitches , then the same needles have been knitted on both rows and will go on being knitted on subsequent rows so that eventually the carriage jams . |