Example sentences of "been [vb pp] on the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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1 | Much has been written on the larger species of mammalian predator and their importance as bone accumulators , but little has been done on predators of small mammals . |
2 | In contrast to the policy adopted at St James 's , Knatchbull Road , it was decided to re-roof All Saints and St Barnabas with natural slates rather than the cheaper synthetic slates that had been used on the earlier project . |
3 | Secondly , we have little information on the sites at each end of the trackways , since only scatters of flints have been found on the higher , drier , islands and uplands . |
4 | In the past this plant would only have been found on the better drained slopes leading to our moorland plateaux , but because of man 's interference in this environment , by digging drainage ditches and lowering the water table , the plant has been able to spread onto the plateaux themselves . |
5 | It simply is not true that the burden of taxation has been increased on the poorer members of society . |