Example sentences of "been [vb pp] on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both were villages with large numbers of Hinkley workers and which , a few years before , could have been relied on to toe the company line . |
| 2 | WHILE we are about it , I have been told of another effect that , for heaven 's sake , could not have been stumbled on by Francis Bacon . |
| 3 | Radios 2 and 3 have irrevocably lost listeners now that they have been squeezed on to FM only ; so will Radio 1 , which is to meet the same fate . |
| 4 | Before Reflexology was researched and developed in America in the 1930s , work on reflexes of the feet had been carried on in China for thousands of years . |
| 5 | I hope that this historical survey gives you some insight into the work that has been carried on regarding AI , in particular expert systems , for the maintenance of aircraft within the RAF . |
| 6 | Since then , new benefits have been bolted on to Beveridge 's structure and some of these have compounded the ageism of the system . |
| 7 | Alongside the notice was another one from the cricket club stating that the offer to the rugby club had been made on on April 9 and , as joint owners of the ground , the cricket club had been informed . |
| 8 | The barbecue is hot and ready , and the water has been turned on to heat for their showers . |
| 9 | By ten p.m. certain members of the company were sniffing coke or had been turned on by acid or speed or grass . |
| 10 | I had hoped to be the editor of a book all on my own at last , but this project is important and so urgent that have been drafted on to help . |
| 11 | Based on a series of works by Picasso collectively known as the Antipolis cycle , made in 1946 to 1947 , the images have been engraved on to metal plates by Claude Rodrigues and printed uninked ( a technique known as gaufrage ) . |
| 12 | The clock and barometer have been handed on from Kevin 's father 's yacht |
| 13 | The accord renewed the provisions for a ceasefire which had been agreed on in March but never put into effect [ see p. 38755 ] . |
| 14 | While the tribute often remained unpaid , as in the case of Sicily , where an annual payment of 30,000 tarims ( about £100,000 ) had been agreed on in Frederick 's minority , it provided a source of income which the political activities of the popes in their dealings with the separate kingdoms suggest was definitely worthwhile . |
| 15 | The cornflower-blue dress she had brought to wear at the finals had been slept on by Ethel and was impossibly creased , as was her face after two nights sleeping in the car . |
| 16 | Sixty dead or dying dolphins have been washed on up beaches in southern Italy in July , raising fears of a recurrence of the viral epidemic which killed hundreds of Mediterranean dolphins in 1990 . |
| 17 | Returns are kept in the Public Record Office at Chancery Lane , London , under the classification E179 , but an enquirer should first check the availability of those which have been printed on a county basis or have been copied on to microfilm . |
| 18 | At least one set of potential buyers , from Holland , has been helicoptered on to Eigg to be shown around the island . |
| 19 | I found my father talking to some of them ; he had been called on to act as an interpreter . |
| 20 | I make no secret of my gratitude for being a member of a fortunate generation who have not been called on to fight in Europe . |
| 21 | In any case , I 've never been called on to deal with anything like this before . |
| 22 | He is also proud that in 37 years he has never lost a single victim whose life he has been called on to save . |
| 23 | The financial effort the nation has been called on to make is a very large one , especially since the cost of construction per kW of nuclear capacity is about 25 per cent higher than the cost per kW of coal-fired capacity . |
| 24 | As the Young King wavered between the three alternatives of remaining dutifully at his father 's side , going to Jerusalem , or marching into Aquitaine , he was certainly tempted by messages from the rebels offering to recognize him as their Duke , but he may also have been egged on by Geoffrey of Brittany . |
| 25 | The group claims more than 150 monkeys like this have been experimented on at Oxford University . |
| 26 | Mr Charsley begins by pointing out that a Martian who found himself invited to a wedding would imagine that the whole affair had been laid on to honour the cake ( the question as to who would invite a Martian or to which side of the church the ushers would show him or why best men seem to turn into Martians when it comes to speeches , he quite wisely avoids ) . |
| 27 | Cars had been laid on in advance by Tom Warner 's telegram , and we were soon settled in our respective suites or rooms in the C.P.R. 's palatial Hotel Saskatchewan . |
| 28 | According to a TEC person , with his tongue only slightly in his cheek , the razzamatazz had been laid on in attempt to put Andrew Neil at his ease , given his recorded fondness for visiting Tramp , the beautiful person 's London nightclub . |
| 29 | A lavish welcome had been laid on by Mr Smith — not just a teddy bear but also a Rolls Royce . |
| 30 | Violence , sexual scandal and murder had of course been seized on by Mary 's sixteenth-century detractors as admirable means of blackening the character of a major political figure — particularly a female political figure . |