Example sentences of "have been [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 | The emphasis in his own later work , and of others who have followed him , has been increasingly on the most vulnerable . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Eight key tasks are identified and work has been underway on these for some time . |
| 8 | Marriage has been much on our minds in the SHE office of late . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She 'd been here on Friday , and he had n't ! |
| 11 | They 'd been here on holiday , enjoying a lifestyle worlds apart from the one they endure in Russia . |
| 12 | They 'd been here on holiday , enjoying a lifestyle worlds apart from the one they endure in Russia . |
| 13 | The first time , he 'd been virtually on their tail as he 'd rounded a bend . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The stair-well in this wing indicates an upper storey which presumably would have been much on the same plan . |
| 17 | But no , he was n't killed for that , or it would n't have been still on him . |
| 18 | She felt humiliated — and because she 'd been so attracted to you during that first meeting , it was hard for her to realise the attraction must have been all on her side . |
| 19 | If this had been literally followed , St Bernard himself , as abbot of Clairvaux , would have been constantly on the move . |
| 20 | The City put the shares up 4p to 565p , but that seems to have been largely on the basis of the optimistic tone of the statement and the general state of the market than from any in-depth analysis of the figures . |
| 21 | ‘ And you 're fingering Billy to have been here on Sunday on some sort of animal liberation commando raid ? ’ |
| 22 | The previous night we had been well on course for it . |
| 23 | She had been completely on Daisy 's side , from the very beginning . |
| 24 | He had been Away on a Course when she first joined , and when she met him it was — as far as she was concerned — hate at first sight . |
| 25 | Sunday was always the same in the Lewis home — now that it really was the Lewis home ; for the first ten years of Jo 's life her mother had been away making films and her father had been away on business so much that the main house had been a ghost dwelling ; the Chippendale and Sheraton furniture was draped in dust sheets . |
| 26 | She spoke as if Ruth had been away on holiday and must therefore have abounding strength and energy . |
| 27 | The latter , a cashier with the company , immediately protested his innocence and said that he had been away on holiday at the time . |
| 28 | But I was anxious to see Mr Rochester , who had been away on business , so I ran out of the quiet house to meet him on the road . |
| 29 | Mandru had been away on business for much of the time since Lucien had arrived , so performances had been few . |
| 30 | She had been away on a little holiday in Spain and knew nothing . |