Example sentences of "have been on [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liverpool have been putting hard-tackling left-back Stig Bjorbye through his paces at Anfield , while members of Norway 's Under-21 side who beat England last month have been on trial at Leeds , Sheffield United , Oldham and Forest . |
| 2 | The Paras have been jumping into one of the dropping zones on Salisbury Plain since first light , so the Scouts have been on standby on the DZ in case there should be any casualties . |
| 3 | They have been on exercise for a week , learning and practising the techniques of counterrevolutionary warfare in a rural setting . |
| 4 | I have been on ones of 100,000 acres . |
| 5 | The Lions have been on tour for a month . ’ |
| 6 | Where the new season 's races have taken place , all have been on strips of man-made snow set into dun-coloured grass . |
| 7 | Up in the desolate Arctic region of Vorkuta , site of perhaps Stalin 's most infamous Gulag camp , miners in nine of the area 's 13 pits have been on strike for more than a week against dismal living conditions , and the bureaucracy of the Communist Party and Soviet government . |
| 8 | A quarter of the country 's coal miners have been on strike for three weeks demanding the resignation of President Mikhail Gorbachev , the dissolution of the Soviet parliament and the transfer of power to the Federation Council , composed of the elected leaders of the 15 republics . |
| 9 | Within the balcony we 've got representatives from Tylers at Crawley , representatives of twenty three of our colleagues , who have been on strike for twenty weeks in defence of jobs , in defence of pay and equally important , in defence of safety standards |
| 10 | More than 300 workers have been on strike since 29 January over a dispute about enforced lay-offs . |
| 11 | Hundreds of staff at polytechnic and further education colleges have been on strike in a protest over pay . |
| 12 | Many of Britain 's civil servants have been on strike in protest at what they see as moves towards privatisation which they believe could cost them their jobs . |
| 13 | I have been on location around America rather than Hollywood . |
| 14 | When the Minister visits north Devon will he consider the matter of British equipment and pay a visit to RAF Chivenor , which is waiting for the SAR Westland helicopters that have been on order for two years ? |
| 15 | The fifty drawings and 250 prints comprise the collection and antiquarian book dealer Georg Hirzel ( 1867–1924 ) and have been on loan to the Leipzig Museum . |
| 16 | ‘ Degas to Matisse : The Maurice Wertheim Collection from the Harvard University Art Museums ’ ( 14 February-25 April ) comprises forty-three representational works of consistent high quality , collected by New York investment banker Maurice Wertheim , and bequeathed in 1950 to his alma mater , where they have been on display since 1974 . |
| 17 | Of the over three hundred entries , 30 short-listed by the assessors have been on display in Glasgow 's Princes Square , and are being shown at the RIBA in London until 3 March . |
| 18 | Users of the ‘ Pentium-ready ’ personal computer systems that have been on sale since the middle of last year — Intel Corp 80486-based boxes with a Pentium upgrade socket — wo n't get their OverDrive Pentiums , code-named the P24T , which plugs into the socket , until 1994 . |
| 19 | Users of the ‘ Pentium-ready ’ personal computer systems which have been on sale since the middle of last year — Intel Corp 80486-based boxes with a Pentium upgrade socket — wo n't get their OverDrive Pentiums , code-named the P24T , which plugs into the socket , until next year ( UX No 424 ) . |
| 20 | In the past few days , tickets have been on sale to season-ticket holders and those with ticket stubs from selected previous matches . |
| 21 | Available gasifiers are well-designed and economically competitive , but most have been on sale for 18 months or less . |
| 22 | Aircraft leaving Hendon include three that have been on show since 1972 : Hawker P.1127 XP831 will be placed on loan with the Science Museum and be displayed at South Kensington . |
| 23 | Yet , although the excavations began in 1967 and about half of the paintings have been on exhibition in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens since the early 1970s , the other half have been neither exhibited nor published . |
| 24 | The workers have been on duty for the same amount of time whenever measurements are made . |
| 25 | They have complained that traffic has been going down the one-in-three gradient Bay Bank into the old part of the village which is prevented when police have been on duty in the past . |