Example sentences of "have [be] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | A teacher who has been away on a short course including elements of both these skills , and can therefore give useful general advice . |
| 2 | The teacher takes on a role as a member of the local council who has been away on business . |
| 3 | As we know , the FORM , or pattern shaping , is an integral part of the Electronic E-6000 , but it has been around on Passap System machines as the Form Computer Program for ten years or so , and to many knitters it is still surrounded by mystery and suspicion . |
| 4 | The emphasis in his own later work , and of others who have followed him , has been increasingly on the most vulnerable . |
| 5 | HIGH winds and heavy seas have prevented the salvaging of the 1,500-tonne Danish cargo vessel Bettina Danca , which has been aground on the island of Stroma in the Pentland Firth since last weekend . |
| 6 | Top End , which supports X/Open 's Distributed Transaction Processing model and XA Resource Manager interface , has been up on NCR 3000s since May of 1991 , and is now in use at multiple sites . |
| 7 | Last year a team from Hereford were the winners and the Castaways raft has been back on the Wye this week practising to make it a double . |
| 8 | As Labov and Sankoff point out ( 1980 : xi ) , the emphasis in recent years arising naturally from the maturing of sociolinguistics as a research area has been less on purely methodological concerns such as measurement techniques and the presentation of correlational relationships between linguistic and social structure . |
| 9 | Since 1987 an extensive programme of restoration has been underway on the fresco cycle by Masolino in the chapel of Saint Catherine in the upper church . |
| 10 | Eight key tasks are identified and work has been underway on these for some time . |
| 11 | Marriage has been much on our minds in the SHE office of late . |
| 12 | It has been nigh on a full month since we first made a landfall on to the north shore : since we rode in the longboat on the crest of the shining surf and I set my foot withal on this fair land in the name of the King . |
| 13 | So the fact that the vehicle has been out on shall we a mor a morning delivery and the the back shift man comes in and has a look at it , he would then have to do it all again . |
| 14 | A police squad has been out on the streets rounding up school truants . |
| 15 | She 'd been here on Friday , and he had n't ! |
| 16 | They 'd been here on holiday , enjoying a lifestyle worlds apart from the one they endure in Russia . |
| 17 | They 'd been here on holiday , enjoying a lifestyle worlds apart from the one they endure in Russia . |
| 18 | If we 'd been up on Water Gypsy 's superstructure you 'd have been in the canal by now . ’ |
| 19 | The soles of her feet and the then they knew she 'd been up on her feet you know . |
| 20 | The first time , he 'd been virtually on their tail as he 'd rounded a bend . |
| 21 | When Conchis had said that he 'd been down on Moutsa the week before , it had been this one fact , the sweet womanish perfume , that had puzzled me . |
| 22 | ‘ If you 'd been out on the street — ’ Georgiades looked at Nikos — ‘ instead of sitting on your ass in a cool office — ’ |
| 23 | He 's as sane as you or I. He 's a romantic at heart , a born adventurer ; a couple of hundred years ago and he 'd have been somewhere on the other side of the world building up the odd empire . ’ |
| 24 | But at its finest , it reaches heights of eloquence that can not have been most on the leaders of the next generation and it is music that ought to be heard in our halls . |
| 25 | → Sorry to have forgotten about the Pacifica , Graham — although , come to think of it , Charvel/Jackson might also have been in on the act back in the mid-eighties . |
| 26 | ‘ That means Goering must have been in on it ? |
| 27 | I knew you 'd rather have been off on your own , if it had n't been for the children . |
| 28 | Touch more , and you 'd have been off on episode three … |
| 29 | If he could have evaded meeting the poor man for even a few days , this squabble over the saint 's bones would have been settled , one way or another , and Herluin would have been off on his travels , and taken Tutilo with him . |
| 30 | By now you should have been out on several practice walks and determined your state of fitness . |