Example sentences of "been [vb pp] on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1982 ) is a revised version of a well-established North American test which has been restandardised on a sample of British children . |
| 2 | The earliest area of crofts may have been situated on a bluff west of the church , while an extended area was later laid out to the north around a triangular green , with an earlier Norman manor house going out of use at the same time . |
| 3 | Different types of software have been placed on a continuum from machine orientated to user orientated . |
| 4 | A group of musicians stood in the angle of one of the buttresses of the cathedral playing tambour and fife whilst the Dean and Chapter , garlands of roses on their heads , danced in solemn procession around the severed head of a buck which had been placed on a pole , its brown eyes staring glassily over those who now rejoiced at its death . |
| 5 | Coils of 15-amp wire and hand tools had been placed on a groundsheet . |
| 6 | Abandoned fawns have been reared on a bottle , only to die within a few months . |
| 7 | On either side gold metal had been arranged on a wood background to create abstract angels , kneeling , praying , haloed but without faces , without radiance . |
| 8 | The general twinning link between Musselburgh and Champigny-sur-Marne has been developed on a primary and secondary school level and Betty 's own Musselburgh Burgh is twinned with Marcel Cachin Primary School . |
| 9 | This sign has been painted on a piece of board and is listing badly . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Looking to the future , filming has been completed on a Service Quality Development video on telephone techniques . |
| 12 | The man , who makes his getaway on foot each time , has been caught on a security video . |
| 13 | The tears had been caught on a piece of gauze , and sealed in a cut-glass phial . |
| 14 | The fires , which are concentrated on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo , have been blamed on a combination of four months of low rainfall and the after-effects of widespread logging , which have left large swathes of comparatively parched land on which fires can take hold easily and spread to secondary forest growth . |
| 15 | It had been parked on a hill above the park in Newport , Gwent . |
| 16 | The huge teddy bear had been installed on a chair in my flat , and scared my servant when she came in next morning . |
| 17 | Floodlights have been installed on a soccer pitch and a hard porous hockey pitch , enabling matches and practice to take place in the evenings . |
| 18 | Clearly , the mill must have been rebuilt on a number of occasions , becoming known from the 1850s as Severn Mill . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The Lower Mill site had clearly been re-used on a number of occasions , as references during the 16th century describe it as a structure of mud walls with a thatched roof . |
| 21 | To date advanced courses have been designed on an input model with emphasis being on the content . |
| 22 | Similarly , Italian unions have never been organised on a craft or occupational basis ( apart from a few exceptional cases ) . |
| 23 | In-house Assessment and Financial Management Training has been organised on a District basis for February , March ( 2.5 days and 2 days respectively per District ) . |
| 24 | In addition , work which has been prepared on a word-processor and presented to teachers or assessors encourages them to concentrate on the content without being prejudiced by the presentation . |
| 25 | Signatures have been collected on a petition to call an extraordinary general meeting following Forest 's struggling start to the season . |
| 26 | At the event the desktop publisher was basking in the reflected glory when a lady sitting next to him suddenly said ‘ Oh dear , it 's all been done on a computer . ’ |
| 27 | Most managers are happier with numbers and measurements than qualitative judgements , and there is , certainly , some risk that a small-scale piece of research will turn out to have been done on a sample of people who are rather atypical of the desired target audience as a whole . |
| 28 | Although everything had been done on a shoestring , she was pleased with the result — and could not help feeling pleased with his praise . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's been built on a cover-up . |