Example sentences of "been [verb] on a " in BNC.
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| 31 | To protect the spirit of demilitarisation , a convention has been followed that defence spending will not exceed 1 per cent of GNP , and although this ceiling has been broken on a few occasions , the 1 per cent target has a symbolic significance . |
| 32 | If the applicant does not attend , however , the court is likely to dismiss the application although it may proceed in his absence if sufficient evidence has been received on a previous occasion ( FPCR , r16(5) ; FPR , r4.16(5) ) . |
| 33 | Looking to the future , filming has been completed on a Service Quality Development video on telephone techniques . |
| 34 | The tears had been caught on a piece of gauze , and sealed in a cut-glass phial . |
| 35 | The man , who makes his getaway on foot each time , has been caught on a security video . |
| 36 | Not that he had been to work on a Sunday for several years , but that was how he remembered it . |
| 37 | If the land has been let on an exempt basis after 31 July 1989 , the landlord needs Customs ' written permission to opt ( Sch 6A , para 3(6) ( a ) and ( 10 ) ; Notice 742B , part V ) . |
| 38 | It was , in fact , as if the football pools had been won on a massive international scale . |
| 39 | Talus president , Steve Sarich says ‘ its like we 've been dropped on a different planet and all the Martians love us ’ — surely sales of NeXT boxes are n't that rare , or are they ? |
| 40 | THE list of processes thought to occur abiotically at the Earth 's surface has been shrinking on a yearly basis . |
| 41 | The fires , which are concentrated on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo , have been blamed on a combination of four months of low rainfall and the after-effects of widespread logging , which have left large swathes of comparatively parched land on which fires can take hold easily and spread to secondary forest growth . |
| 42 | It had been parked on a hill above the park in Newport , Gwent . |
| 43 | Floodlights have been installed on a soccer pitch and a hard porous hockey pitch , enabling matches and practice to take place in the evenings . |
| 44 | The huge teddy bear had been installed on a chair in my flat , and scared my servant when she came in next morning . |
| 45 | Clearly , the mill must have been rebuilt on a number of occasions , becoming known from the 1850s as Severn Mill . |
| 46 | Some seem to have been rebuilt on a larger scale , presumably to cater for a more centralised population ; an example may be Wharram Percy in Yorkshire . |
| 47 | Selahattin Ozberk , who had been booked on an afternoon flight from Heathrow to Istanbul , will now be sent back next Tuesday evening unless another country can be found to accept him . |
| 48 | Erm our marketing has been targeted on a geographical basis er on three main areas . |
| 49 | The Lower Mill site had clearly been re-used on a number of occasions , as references during the 16th century describe it as a structure of mud walls with a thatched roof . |
| 50 | To date advanced courses have been designed on an input model with emphasis being on the content . |
| 51 | Sheriff Risk rejected suggestions that the Sikorsky should not have been landing on a restricted helideck . |
| 52 | Similarly , Italian unions have never been organised on a craft or occupational basis ( apart from a few exceptional cases ) . |
| 53 | In-house Assessment and Financial Management Training has been organised on a District basis for February , March ( 2.5 days and 2 days respectively per District ) . |
| 54 | In addition , work which has been prepared on a word-processor and presented to teachers or assessors encourages them to concentrate on the content without being prejudiced by the presentation . |
| 55 | It could , for example , consist of a complaint that a rating list had been prepared on an unfair basis in the sense that another ratepayer 's property had been undervalued , even if a revaluation would not lead to a reduction in the complainant 's rate bill . |
| 56 | A very large amount had already been collected on a voluntary basis by religious groups for the Famine , making it seem almost superfluous or extortionate to do more . |
| 57 | Signatures have been collected on a petition to call an extraordinary general meeting following Forest 's struggling start to the season . |
| 58 | It is an authoritative review of the research that has been done on a fascinating fauna . |
| 59 | It is admitted that the gradings assigned to the respective countries have been done on a subjective basis and that different observers might well have come up with somewhat different rankings . |
| 60 | Most managers are happier with numbers and measurements than qualitative judgements , and there is , certainly , some risk that a small-scale piece of research will turn out to have been done on a sample of people who are rather atypical of the desired target audience as a whole . |