Example sentences of "had been [verb] on an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 31-year-old victim 's wife , who had been drifting on an anchor line 10ft below their charter boat , was uninjured . |
| 2 | But if MAFF 's original assessment for the UK 's LFA had been based on an objective survey rather than merely regurgitating the ‘ hill line ’ drawn up under the 1946 Hill Farming Act , it would have had a more reliable basis to which the results of its Hills and Uplands land classification could have been added to determine some meaningful handicap zones . |
| 3 | After a meeting last night of the committee which runs the museum , a statement said the decision had been based on an ‘ amicable agreement ’ between the two parties . |
| 4 | If accumulation in the boom had been based on an unchanged mass of machinery per worker then an extension of the capital stock would have required an equivalent increase in workers employed . |
| 5 | He remained an active supporter of CND , boasted that his daughter had been conceived on an Aldermaston march , and had once horrified Margaret Thatcher by wearing his CND badge when he met her at a gathering of northern business people . |
| 6 | On Dec. 25 the Iranian government issued a vigorous protest against the arrest , which had been made on an Interpol warrant issued in Paris . |
| 7 | It could , for example , consist of a complaint that a rating list had been prepared on an unfair basis in the sense that another ratepayer 's property had been undervalued , even if a revaluation would not lead to a reduction in the complainant 's rate bill . |
| 8 | In fact , the first Labour government which took office in January 1924 , after Baldwin had been defeated on an amendment to the Address , lasted until October , when the new government in turn was defeated on a Liberal amendment to a Conservative motion which MacDonald chose to regard as a matter of confidence ; and the Conservatives rather than the Liberals were to be the beneficiaries of MacDonald 's fall . |
| 9 | Selahattin Ozberk , who had been booked on an afternoon flight from Heathrow to Istanbul , will now be sent back next Tuesday evening unless another country can be found to accept him . |
| 10 | She said that all MPs must take advice on personal security very seriously for the sake of themselves and their families ; Gow 's name had been found on an IRA death list discovered in a south London flat in December 1988 . |
| 11 | Heaven knew , it had been difficult enough to remain even slightly detached when they had been putting on an act for the benefit of an audience . |
| 12 | These situations are represented by businesses which : ( i ) are offered for sale in credible circumstances and on realistic term ; ( ii ) in respect of which the initiating member has not been retained on an exclusive basis ; and ( iii ) which on their merits would warrant international marketing if the initiating member had been retained on an exclusive basis . |
| 13 | In a statement issued on Feb. 7 , 1990 , however , it said that some $2,000 million had been spent on an operation which had been halted in mid-September for climatic reasons . |
| 14 | The Washington Post reported in June that $62 million of the $200 million paid to 45 contractors since 1988 had not been used to clean up anything , but had been spent on an overhead named " programme management " . |