Example sentences of "have been on [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you take the present notion of the galaxies and run it back in time , it would seem that they should all have been on top of each other at some moment between ten and twenty thousand million years ago . |
| 2 | If we sort of reverse things in our minds eye , and look backwards into the past history of the universe , we can come to a time where apparently all the material in the universe would have been on top of itself , that it would all have been squeezed into a point , and this moment sometimes people call the big bang , or the initial singularity . |
| 3 | The Corporation may have been on cover for several years and when subsidence damage is discovered , it requires full underpinning . |
| 4 | We should have been on TV after all . |
| 5 | Even if he added some new music for the revival , all the rest must already have been on paper for the premiere . |
| 6 | ‘ But here we are , drinking wine sitting on a bed that in former times would have been on fire by now . ’ |
| 7 | In the forty third minute , Foyle volleyed wide from fifteen yards when really he should have been on target after receiving from Magilton , and as referee Taylor was looking at his whistle to blow it for half time , United skipper , Steve Foster drove forward from the edge of the penalty area , shrugged off a couple of challenges , hit a good low shot , seemingly under the body of Gosney , but Gosney 's body just halted the flow of the ball . |
| 8 | It can hardly have been on account of the unanimous beliefs of the many Home Secretaries who passed through the department during the period — though it has to be said that only one , Roy Jenkins , showed any real interest in the issue and he did what he could to achieve action . |
| 9 | As I understood er Mr 's position , he would have been on behalf of the Parish Council who are the only er people who are concerned about this as I understand , who raised an objection at this er at this stage they they would have been quite happy with the proposition that I 've put forward on behalf of the County Council . |