Example sentences of "been [vb pp] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 70 per cent of adult Albanians have been dismissed on ethnic grounds from jobs as various as toilet cleaners , museum curators and power plant directors . |
| 2 | His background has been catalogued on many occasions and trawled by the man himself with the single-mindedness which characterizes all his causes . |
| 3 | This report was criticised because of the small number of patients studied and because patients had not been stabilised on each insulin before acute hypoglycaemia was induced . |
| 4 | Two main kinds of European amber have been distinguished on chemical grounds . |
| 5 | Extensive stretches of the walls of his nave have been traced on each side of the existing nave , although we do not yet know if it had an aisle along each flank . |
| 6 | As we have seen , the prestigious ultra-Rightist politician , José Calvo Sotelo , had been assassinated on 13 July . |
| 7 | May 1865 , shortly after President Lincoln had been assassinated on 14th . |
| 8 | The studies that have been undertaken on early Anglo-Saxon pottery emphasise that , unlike the more exotic materials discussed above , it rarely travelled far from a clay source to the point of consumption , regardless of whether it was for funerary or domestic purposes ; some classes of funerary pottery may have been transported further . |
| 9 | Much work has been undertaken on this aircraft and it has clearly got into the blood of those at PE , so much so that should the SAAF Museum at Swartkop , near Pretoria , ever wish to move there , they would find a fearsome fight on their hands ! |
| 10 | A telephone call reported a device had been placed on one of the SVR train-sets . |
| 11 | Similar emergency import bans have been placed on certain Andean textiles from Bolivia , on Moche artifacts found in Peru and on Maya items from the Peten region of Guatemala . |
| 12 | Emphasis has been placed on increasing income inequalities as a means of boosting incentives for more work effort on an individual and corporate level . |
| 13 | Whilst in the past some reliance has been placed on low melting point plastics and the thermal shock effects on asbestos cement sheeting to provide a degree of ventilation , consequential to a fire , experience indicates that such faith can be misplaced . |
| 14 | In recent years , a great deal of emphasis has been placed on technological progress as a cause of structural unemployment . |
| 15 | Particular emphasis has been placed on supervisory skills , multi-tasking and accreditation of competence , as well as safety and safety awareness training and graduate placement schemes . |
| 16 | It is little wonder , therefore , that during those parts of the year which were spent at Saint Cloud , Compiègne or Fontainebleau the emphasis should have been placed on greater informality . |
| 17 | But how far have the changes in child care law embodied in the Children Act 1989 , with its focus on the paramountcy of the child 's welfare ( as a means to the child 's better protection ) , and the increasing emphasis which has been placed on parental responsibility rather than rights by the courts in recent years , been mirrored by changes in the balance of power between parent , child and state in education ? |
| 18 | Under the Belfast Urban Area Plan strict restrictions have been placed on any further office development outside the city centre . |
| 19 | As these activities became more intense a greater demand would have been placed on those who made it possible , the food-producers , who would have been under increasing pressure to maximise output . |
| 20 | In this way the study diverges from the usual tradition of elite studies where emphasis has been placed on ideological response or constituency service as the key to understanding the adoption of attitudes in such an elite . |
| 21 | Emphasis has been placed on clinical aspects of disease , although a brief account of the causative organism and the relevant pathology is also given . |
| 22 | Emphasis has been placed on clinical aspects of disease , although a brief account of the causative organism and the relevant pathology is also given . |
| 23 | The corollary of this is the increasing emphasis that has been placed on urban policies , such as Inner-City Partnerships and Enterprise Zones . |
| 24 | Even if cubs had been reared on human flesh , they did not persist in man-eating once they had grown up . |
| 25 | Stone 's operations in the US have also been criticized on environmental grounds . |
| 26 | While the concept of headship has been criticized on empirical and political grounds , see for example Murphy ( forthcoming ) , it is necessary to use it here because it is the familiar way of presenting data and also because many data from earlier years are available only in this form . |
| 27 | The first limb is universally accepted as legitimate ; the second , though having the merit of expanding the scope of the Convention , has been criticized on various grounds . |
| 28 | However their interpretation has been criticized on several counts which show that ‘ the family-firm analogy is misleading and generally overworked ; its character is usually symbolic or ideological rather than descriptive ’ ( Fruin 1980 p.432 ) . |
| 29 | The allocation of structural funds in southern Europe has been criticized on numerous occasions as causing environmental damage [ see EDs 56 ; 70 ] . |
| 30 | Key settlements have also been criticized on social grounds , a point that will be elaborated in the next section . |