Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christian churches throughout Jerusalem , Israel proper and the occupied territories took the unprecedented step of closing in protest for the whole day of April 27 , and the controversy encouraged an improvement in relations between the normally conservative Greek Orthodox community and Palestinian Christians ; the Middle East International of April 27 reported that , soon after the Jews took over the hospice , a Palestinian flag had been raised on a nearby Greek Orthodox Church . |
| 2 | It had been built on a piece of glebe land behind the church , with a narrow drive running up beside the churchyard wall , separating it from the lane , isolating it from other houses . |
| 3 | It seems evident that the structure had been built on a shelf cut into the steep hill slope and a terrace added on the north side . |
| 4 | Defries hardly noticed the lakes and the vegetation : she was studying the strange complex of structures that had been built on a vast slab of rock in the centre of the fertile valley . |
| 5 | She found herself unable to speak with the fear that clutched at her , the worrying possibility that her whole life had been built on a lie . |
| 6 | The houses had been built on a concrete raft on an infilled site . |
| 7 | The will that gave them title had been written on a torn-out page of a 1938 diary , the only paper available when the family learnt of their imminent fate in the gas chamber . |
| 8 | Anyway , ’ he went on , ‘ I made some further enquiries and it transpired that Len had been convicted on a drink-driving offence and had lost his driving licence . |
| 9 | Although trenches had been constructed on a limited scale in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5 , they became a significant factor in warfare only in World War I. By the end of 1914 , the conflict had developed into what amounted to a siege and both Allied and German soldiers dug trenches to protect themselves from enemy small-arms and machine-gun fire . |
| 10 | I had hinted to him that I had been engaged on a paper to be called ‘ Enslavement by Capital ’ , a title adapted from one employed by Ezra Pound in a Criterion article called more characteristically , ‘ Murder by Capital ’ . |
| 11 | However SCOTVEC and BTEC had been engaged on a number of discussions on areas of mutual interest . |
| 12 | It also noted that the Brady plan had been applied on a slow-moving voluntary basis which depended on the goodwill of creditor governments and banks , and claimed that in the absence of such goodwill debtor governments had had no alternative but to declare moratoriums as a means of attracting attention to their situation . |
| 13 | So these things came to an end , I recall that on one occasion I was offered the eye of a sheep that had been cooked on a vast platter . |
| 14 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on . |
| 15 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on.A 17-year-old youth made a remark and the offence was committed . |
| 16 | A belief in Chinese superiority stemming from a closer approximation to the natural order of the cosmos governed China 's relations with neighbouring peoples , which over centuries had been conducted on a tributary basis . |
| 17 | He was entitled to his moment of pride ; shooting had gone well on the set of The Viking — astonishingly well considering it had been done on a ludicrously small budget and with television crews much more accustomed to slapstick children 's shows than gritty drama . |
| 18 | Although everything had been done on a shoestring , she was pleased with the result — and could not help feeling pleased with his praise . |
| 19 | One of the company 's washing machines had been featured on a well-known consumer affairs television programme , and some of the selling tactics used by Argent Distributors ' salespersons were deemed to be rather suspect . |
| 20 | The work for this group had been arranged on a large but highly specialised farm , which concentrated on growing bulbs , flowers and potatoes . |
| 21 | On either side gold metal had been arranged on a wood background to create abstract angels , kneeling , praying , haloed but without faces , without radiance . |
| 22 | Denktash accused Vassiliou of intransigence , while Vassiliou in turn accused Denktash of trying to change the terms of the negotiations , which had been based on a long-standing UN-sponsored plan for a bizonal federal republic , with no provision for secession or dissolution . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Her life had been full of pain and perplexity ; it is not too much to say that her emotional needs had been fastened on a man whom she never properly understood , and that he in turn was baffled and then enraged by her insistent and neurotic demands upon him . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The university student had applied for help under the NHS Low Income Scheme , but said he had been assessed on a £300 loan he did not take out , which put him 39p in credit and not entitled for help . |
| 29 | Both had been dragged on a Highland holiday from leather-button cardiganed Surbiton , I also decided . |
| 30 | Nicholson did not appear in the film and was used as a production assistant by Corman ; but it is worth mentioning because it was a significant moment in Hollywood history , inspiring as it did a succession of similar films when other producers noticed that The Wild Angels grossed eight million dollars in no time at all , and had been made on a shoestring budget . |