Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I see you 've been checking up on me . ’ |
| 2 | So thoroughly buried was Herculaneum that a new town , Resina , has been built right on top of the old . |
| 3 | The strength of the stock market has been built entirely on the belief that the economy is about to start growing again at a time when inflation , earnings growth and interest rates are all low and falling , creating ideal conditions for a period of non-inflationary growth . |
| 4 | Too often his reputation as an architect has been written off on the basis of very late works which were more the work of his nephew , MacVicar Anderson , and his chief clerk , Colling , under his direction . |
| 5 | Rigney has been training quietly on his own over the past few weeks and believes that he will be back in action in the New Year for Greystones . |
| 6 | A great deal of technological work has been done recently on the seasoning of wood , and safe accelerated drying schedules have been worked out for all kinds and dimensions of timber . |
| 7 | Eroticism has been placed firmly on the feminist agenda , a challenge to the desexualisation of lesbianism which represented a significant strand of seventies ' feminism . |
| 8 | I thank the Minister for that answer and the confirmation that during the Government 's tenure the burden has been placed firmly on the shoulders of those who are least able to bear it . |
| 9 | Marginal plants , as their name implies , grow in the shallow water at the pool 's edge and can either be grown in planting baskets , like waterlilies , or in soil that has been placed directly on the marginal shelf . |
| 10 | Deciding which to use and where is obviously important , a theme that has been explored before on these pages , but many users seem bewildered by the range of typefaces that are available . |
| 11 | Customs say no decision has been made yet on whether to appeal . |
| 12 | I pause to state that I accept Mr submission that no claim for loss of pension has been made out on the evidence before me . |
| 13 | The evidence supporting Sivapithecus- orang-utan relationship has been questioned recently on the basis of new postcranial remains of Sivapithecus . |
| 14 | How is he to measure it against ‘ Look before you leap ’ , ‘ Care for your parents ’ , and such other imperatives as he has been picking up on the way ? |
| 15 | A large white cross has been painted roughly on the ground . |
| 16 | I think I can claim that the whole last part is bound to make an impact on our musical public ; at least , if I compare it with what has been said recently on the same problem by Hanslick and others … |
| 17 | For over forty years , our security has been based firmly on NATO , the most successful defensive alliance ever . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | Suffice it to say here that the word ‘ feudal ’ is used frequently and loosely in relation to Japan , and this use has been based either on the existence in Japan of certain features associated with European feudalism , such as a military code of honour , or on a specific interpretation of the relations of production in Japanese society before the late nineteenth century . |
| 20 | The government 's case for retaining lead in petrol has been based heavily on the 1981 Lawther report . |
| 21 | Speculation has been based mostly on anatomy , both adult and larval ; meanwhile ultrastructural studies , immunology and biochemistry have added to the debate , and sometimes the confusion . |
| 22 | Much analysis of public transport use has been based simply on estimating the number of single ( one-way ) trips made by passengers . |
| 23 | Attempts have been made to distinguish predation from scavenging ( Binford , 1981 ; Bunn , 1982 ; Shipman , 1983b , 1986 ) , but this work has been based entirely on analysis of large mammals ( Behrensmeyer , 1987 ) . |
| 24 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 25 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 26 | Assessment of how successful an event has been depends largely on feedback , and , if possible , the organisers should get together afterwards to hear comments and take note for future reference . |
| 27 | Well Elsie he has been seen out on Kilmont Farm dismounting without orders quite a few times . |
| 28 | Notwithstanding that the royal prerogative as a source of power for the government antedates Acts of Parliament , has been at the root of a civil war and a revolution in England and has been litigated about on countless major occasions in respect of its use both at home and overseas , its scope is still unclear as is the role of the courts in relation thereto . |
| 29 | It has been developing away on a polymer foam that is intended to fill an entire building ‘ from floor to ceiling ’ in a few seconds after an alarm is tripped . |
| 30 | Regional Railways : Ticketing the local train to take an ever The ghost of Dr Beeching has been cast out on the provincial railways . |