Example sentences of "have been [adj] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There had been a good relationship on the whole between the management and myself and it has been supportive on both sides . ’ |
| 2 | In the light of what has been available on the market between 1986 and 1989 , it is fascinating to see what was not acquired as well as what has been bought . |
| 3 | Although its standard Informix SE relational database engine has been available on DOS since 1984 , Informix Corp appears to have made little impact on the lower end of the market , concentrating instead on its core Unix business . |
| 4 | The full code has been available on InterNet for the last two months and was to go on CompuServe last week , according to Dr Dobbs ' editor Jonathan Erickson . |
| 5 | This type of index is used in the Indexed Sequential Access Method ( ISAM ) that has been available on IBM mainframe computer systems since the late sixties , and is now available on some microcomputers . |
| 6 | An experienced general manager has been retained in a consultancy role and has been present on practically all the visits to units since August 1991 . |
| 7 | Terry Venables has been keen on the 23-year-old for months and armed with over £2million from the Stewart sale , is set to move in on the £1.2m-rated player . |
| 8 | The report is presently unfinished and unpublished , allegedly because of opposition from the Bush administration , which has been intent on playing down the possible effects of global warming . |
| 9 | ‘ The reception of the telecottage has been brilliant on the island , ’ enthuses Hardcastle , a Mancunian whose Hoy holidays gradually became permanent . |
| 10 | At this stage an author who is arguing that the study of social policy in Britain has been strong on criticism and value judgement but weak on analysis should make his own position very clear . |
| 11 | Since then , he has been late on numerous occasions and we believe his alcohol consumption has increased . |
| 12 | Exceptional in its moderacy , the report discounted the fear of imitative crime , arguing that ‘ it certainly has not been proved that the increase in juvenile crime generally has been consequent on the cinema ’ . |
| 13 | It has been profitable on annual turnover of about £180m — $270m — over the past few years . |
| 14 | For more than a decade there has been an inverse relationship between government policy on public expenditure and that on education ; it has been low on funding and high on educational aspiration and expectation . |
| 15 | But acceptance has been conditional on the university being able to raise £1.5 million to build a suitable building , and to conserve and endow the collection . |
| 16 | In recent years , since he has been successful on the track . |
| 17 | Nothing looks worse , and does a poorer job , than a worm which has been stuck on the hook several times and looks as though it has been tied in a knot . |
| 18 | Instead it is because success has been dependent on the ability to win the argument on each individual placement with each head teacher that this investment , as part of the in-service programme , is worthwhile . |
| 19 | Apart from this industrial , political , and mob violence , however , there has been the ongoing pressure of the seemingly inexorably high level of ‘ ordinary ’ crime , the control of which has been high on the agenda for ten years . |
| 20 | Since the resurgence of the women 's movement in the early 1970s and its subsequent development into feminism ( less an activist social movement than a political body of thought and cultural practices ) , film , as Annette Kuhn and others have pointed out , has been high on the agenda of women working for social change . |
| 21 | Swales 's reign at Maine Road has been short on success . |
| 22 | She has been active on the London fringe , playing the title part in Strindberg 's Miss Julie , Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Ernest and other parts . |
| 23 | Obair has been active on the question of employment , unemployment and training for people in West Belfast since 1987 . |
| 24 | West Belfast Action for the Unemployed has been active on the punitive effects of social security policies on unemployed people in the area . |
| 25 | She gathers that she has been lucky on her journey to avoid the widespread banditry , carried out more often than not by deserters from the army . |
| 26 | This process has been short-circuited on occasions by well-known public figures , but it is inconceivable that a person unknown as a national party figure could , within the space of two or three years , become that party 's leader as Carter did in the United States . |
| 27 | When comedy work has been thin on the ground , Allen has carved out a healthy career as a straight actor , popping up in the unlikeliest of places : as a minion of fictitious Prime Minister Harry Perkins in A Very British Coup , as an impeccably sleazy reporter in Scandal and most recently as permarandy Rex , the dyspeptic boss of Lyne Electronics in the BBC 's Making Out . |
| 28 | But he has been wrong on so many political issues . ’ |
| 29 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that the Transport and General Workers Union has been wrong on all the major issues facing the country in the past 12 years ? |
| 30 | It has been wrong on unilateralism and trade union legislation and wrong about the man whom it picked to lead the Labour party . |