Example sentences of "been [verb] [to-vb] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I really think he should have been going to try on a left footed shot from there . |
| 2 | It has been shown to thrive on a diet of soluble uranium ions converting them into solid waste and thereby making them easier to remove . |
| 3 | Trade and professional bodies have been invited to comment on a consultation paper . |
| 4 | In providing reasonable access to a representative range of published material , a librarian is required to take note of the needs and interests of the public as a whole ; from time to time pressures , which this Association would feel to be undue , have been brought to bear on a librarian to discontinue the acquisition and display of material , which is thought to be unacceptable and which thus might prohibit the service to certain minorities whose interests the libraries are equally supposed to serve . |
| 5 | Induction has been observed to work on a large number of occasions . |
| 6 | She 's been asked to sit on a human rights commission and now she 's full of stories of gruesome tortures in Turkish prisons , of Russian poets locked up in psychiatric wards . ’ |
| 7 | Its final decision was seen as a compromise , since it had been asked to rule on a total of 44 logging sites , covering over 4,000 acres in all . |
| 8 | You can see who has been asked to vote on a DC using option 2.8.2 , and view their assessments using option 2.8.3 . |
| 9 | Kleinwort Benson has been retained to advise on a suitable partner . |
| 10 | Gina went down the stairs feeling as if she had been reading someone 's letters , or had been forced to eavesdrop on a conversation she did n't want to hear . |
| 11 | Unlike Britain and France , where profits were leaked abroad to colonial landholdings and estates , and where profits did not automatically become industrial investments , Germany had been forced to embark on a series of massive and successive re-investment programmes and re-equipment drives . |