Example sentences of "have been [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as I say as I say I do n't ken how long it had been there but that see that likely about the same time as the as the mill was heightened and er the kiln would 've been putting on . |
| 2 | This usually just rests in place ( it 's rather heavy ) , but where inspection chambers are inside a house ( unusual except where an extension has been built on ) , the manhole is screwed down and has to be specially sealed . |
| 3 | The super smooth 2.5-litre intercooled turbo-diesel , quite the best of the bunch , is pepped up 4bhp to 98bhp ; the 3-litre V-6 petrol has been breathed on to the tune of an extra 8bhp , at 147bhp . |
| 4 | Some he may be hearing in future include : Thy food is such as has been breathed on by infected lungs , ( Pericles ) — useful for insulting prison cooks . |
| 5 | Inside Newark 's award-winning display hangar , Prentice T.1 VR249 is receiving a repaint , the silver finish achieved being all the more remarkable because it has been rollered on , not sprayed . |
| 6 | Today 's new generation of black directors has been spurred on by two particular success stories . |
| 7 | The way ahead for paleontologists trying to build up a knowledge of evolution has been spurred on by the revolution in plate tectonics , which has provided a better understanding of the stratigraphic record and fossilized data . |
| 8 | That has been spurred on by the successful growth of that sector in Britain . |
| 9 | A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage . |
| 10 | ’ The other ship , ’ Posi said , confirming my thought as it formed , ’ has been locked on to our energy-field infrapattern , by means of the advanced Intelloid that controls it . ’ |
| 11 | In recent years the entire MI5 registry has been transferred on to a computer at a Ministry of Defence office in Mount Row , Mayfair . |
| 12 | It has been taking on staff , including temporary organisers in the constituencies , whose contracts will expire four weeks after a general election . |
| 13 | Ormrod J. , noting that this was ‘ the first occasion on which a Court in England has been called on to decide the sex of an individual ’ , felt constrained to find that ‘ legal relations can be classified into those in which the sex of the individuals concerned is either irrelevant , relevant or an essential determinant of the nature of the relationship . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He is also proud that in 37 years he has never lost a single victim whose life he has been called on to save . |
| 16 | Substantial progress has been made on , for example , the Northampton line and the Thames and Chiltern lines and will shortly be made on the Kent link lines . |
| 17 | He claims that Stanford has been leant on by the Chinese government and by American academics , who were scared that the door to China would be closed unless he was punished . |
| 18 | The cash has been sent on to HQ where it is sorely needed ( see our Spring issue ) . |
| 19 | Turning to the subject of handwriting , this has been touched on at the beginning of this chapter . |
| 20 | The free volume concept has been touched on in previous sections but it is instructive now to consider this idea more closely and to draw together the various points alluded to earlier . |
| 21 | Ask anyone who 's lived in a former British colony — English culture has been imposed on and been absorbed by countries on every continent on this earth . |
| 22 | Carl has been jumped on , shot at and held hostage . |
| 23 | The psychoanalysts might suggest that your own temporary alteration of intellectual function has been projected on to me . ’ |
| 24 | The committee has been represented on and has played its part in post-war reconstruction schemes having this object in view . |
| 25 | Erm there 's enough I think enough has been said on , school meals , it 's those , they 're only in , in the , both were identified with efficiency savings of er Joanne erm in school meals without I hope because in the content or the , the nutritional value of the basic meal . |
| 26 | But even this , Wemmick decides to keep to his life at Walworth and not let it be mentioned in Little Britain which even though it seems odd , stays within the boundaries of his character which Dickens has been building on . |
| 27 | Salim presents himself in a light which requires the reader to be told that , although he himself has been making good , he is grieved , or affects to be , by the discovery that the slavish Metty has been getting on : ‘ You 've been very much getting on as though you 're your own man . ’ |
| 28 | Members will want to know how Pat Keen has been getting on since she gave up her classes in the London area and moved to Newquay in Cornwall to look after her 94–year-old mother . |
| 29 | Since then , the issue has been rumbling on in the French press , being kept alive for the fast-approaching Five Nations Championship . |
| 30 | The two-year row has been rumbling on since it became clear the Ffestiniog Company had taken an interest in the project . |