Example sentences of "be written on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much has been written on the performance of British business during the period and many attempts have been made to explain , excuse or refute what has been seen as a decline in British innovative ability since the successes of the industrial revolution . |
| 2 | Much has been written on the subject of the quest for enlightenment . |
| 3 | Lengthy works of great technical excellence have been written on the subject of costing , but the acid test of a well-organised system is that it provides useful information to management under each of the above headings . |
| 4 | Amongst the many excellent and well researched books that have been written on the subject of bereavement the following are outstanding in their capacity to help those who have suffered a major loss : Grief and how to live with it by Sarah Morris ( published in 1971 by George Allen and Unwin ) ; A grief observed by C. S. Lewis ( published in 1961 by Faber and Faber ) — of particular interest to widowers — and Bereavement . |
| 5 | The work of women in both the RFC and RAF ( WAAF ) has of course been fully documented , but little has been written on the subject apart from in propaganda and other official literature . |
| 6 | Little has been written on the subject since then , but one may infer from the few remarks that are made on it that psychologists are no longer so impressed by ‘ the insuperable logical difficulty ’ James believed there to be in the way of saying that the difference between sensations may be one of ‘ place pure and simple ’ . |
| 7 | I could not possibly do justice in this speech to all that has been written on the subject , but I hope that I have profited from the many articles which I have read since the hearing . |
| 8 | Countless joke books have been written on the subject of the ‘ awful ’ school dinners and the general atmosphere of school . |
| 9 | Much has been written on the subject of causative verbs and causativity , and , more particularly , about the semantic and transformational relation between lexical causatives ( such as the verb kill ) and periphrastic forms ( such as cause to die ) . |
| 10 | by no means has the last word been written on the quantum Hall effect . |
| 11 | It follows that I agree with the deputy judge that a written name , not being a normal signature , is capable of being a signature for paragraph ( a ) purposes , but I do not agree that the signature must necessarily , if paragraph ( b ) is to be satisfied , be appended to the document after the substantive testamentary contents have been written on the document . |
| 12 | In contrast , very little has been written on the presence of a risk premium for index futures . |
| 13 | ( That 's how you discover the odd rude word that 's been written on the script by some joker , before the VIP inadvertently reads it out . ) |
| 14 | More has been written on the party history of the period . |
| 15 | He is a great improviser — many of his best lyrics have been written on the wing . |
| 16 | Hundreds of books have been written on the transition from capitalism to communism , but not the other way . |
| 17 | It was the discovery that little had been written on the background of Scottish women MPs which prompted the research work that Dr Burness is following during her fellowship . |
| 18 | Much has been written on the topic of occupational health and hygiene and it is recognised that the provision of an adequate and tolerable physical working environment and the promotion of a general feeling of well being among the workforce , is not only important in preventing occupational disease , but in the prevention of accidents . |
| 19 | The sentences may be written on the blackboard and copied down by the learners . |
| 20 | This despair may be deserved when whole books have to be written on the subject of connecting two pieces of electronic equipment together . |
| 21 | As for the ideal consistency of a tomato sauce to go with , or to be incorporated in , any given dish , a cookery-student 's thesis could be written on the subject , and for all I know already has been . |
| 22 | A great deal could be written on the contrast between Chaucer and Gower reflected here : one might note , for instance , that incest plays a relatively small part in the tale of Appollonius , and that it is hardly condoned in the Canace and Machaire story of Gower although it is romantically treated in a tragic and sympathetic manner . |
| 23 | Any additional points can be written on the back . |
| 24 | He had once heard an Englishman say that what he knew of nuclear physics could be written on the back of a blackcurrant . |
| 25 | ‘ In fact , what I know about children could be written on the back of a postage stamp . |
| 26 | If a guest wishes to deposit a sealed item , they should sign across the seal and the description ‘ one sealed envelope ’ should be written on the receipt . |
| 27 | The detailed study waits to be written on the way in which developments in the law of certiorati affected the law on natural justice . |
| 28 | and I competed for the Quain Essay prize — a sum of 50 — to be written on the survival of the medieval conception of tragedy in post-medieval literature . |
| 29 | ‘ I wonder if there 's a feature to be written on the downside of fashion modelling . |
| 30 | One suggestion is that to make sure everyone gets the message , including absentees , names from the register should be written on the handout and brought every week until distributed . |