Example sentences of "have been on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It wo n't have been on a weighing machine since it left the village where it was grown . ’ |
| 2 | But the dollar 's weight , 21.9% , was double what it would have been on a purely trade-weighted basis , so its slide between 1985 and 1990 dragged the krona down against ERM currencies . |
| 3 | He should have been on a real high , but you can never tell with Seve . |
| 4 | Must have been on a visit . |
| 5 | It had not occurred to her that the snooping might have been on a more professional level . |
| 6 | It must have been on a main line , because there were two sets of tracks , and the mouth of the tunnel had seemed to him — he might have been five , six ? — bigger than anything he had ever seen , bigger than anything he had known could exist . |
| 7 | We all know the facts and figures by now … if you do n't then you must have been on a different planet this weekend … |
| 8 | The woman was then driven around for over an hour and believes part of the journey may have been on a motorway . |
| 9 | His eye might have been on an altogether different target |
| 10 | I suspect they do n't think I 'd be identified by any of the witnesses or I 'd have been on an identity parade by now , but it just all looks so obvious : it must be me . |