Example sentences of "[verb] be a [noun] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There has been a development on the Livesey case , sir . |
| 2 | There has been a school on the site ever since . |
| 3 | Iraq , a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty , appears to have managed to divert nuclear materials to bomb-making despite regular safeguard inspections , but the treaty has been a success on the whole — as indeed has been the complex structure of hot-line , surveillance and negotiation which has ensured that the East-West ‘ balance of terror ’ never tipped over into nuclear war : |
| 4 | In recent years there has been a trend on the part of certain police authorities to move from discussing equipment , etc. , to attempting to influence styles of policing and indeed to involve themselves in operational matters , for example in relation to industrial disputes and demonstrations . |
| 5 | There has been a tendency on the part of the Commission to interpret Article 85(1) very widely so that all restrictions fall within it and require exemption . |
| 6 | Too often in the past there has been an over-reliance on the traditional overdraft facilities in preference to term loans and equity finance , even though the latter may be more appropriate . |
| 7 | The consequence has been an over-concentration on the negative possibilities of LMS to the almost total exclusion of the positive , democratising potential of the delegation of power from LEAs to schools . |
| 8 | ‘ All she needs is a pat on the trunk and a sticky bun , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Apart from the infiltration of the local anaesthetic , when the patient will feel a prick in the back , less painful than the anaesthetic for dental work , all that is felt is a pressure on the lower spine with occasionally a faint ‘ tingle ’ in one leg which simply signifies that the needle is in the right place . |
| 10 | It 's the cost effect of not having that information , that 's going be a cost on the client if he comes and wants |
| 11 | If the same thing was to happen tonight , I would n't mind being a fly on the wall in the Oxford dressing room . |
| 12 | All he 's got is a mattress on the floor and this video machine . |
| 13 | All I 've got is a welt on the head here . |
| 14 | It could have been a variant on the banana sign . ’ |
| 15 | But it would have been a disincentive on the rich . |
| 16 | Walter Smith made the point yesterday that while there might have been a reaction on the part of his players today in a bread-and-butter league match , the atmosphere generated by an Old Firm game would bring out the best in them . |
| 17 | This would have probably entailed working involuntary overtime , possibly long , awkward hours and , almost certainly , making a physical input , one consequence of which would have been a limit on the amount of time spent with the children and energy contributed to their amusement . |
| 18 | It might have been a technical failure or it might have been an action on the part of the operating crew or , indeed , a combination of both . |
| 19 | ‘ I remember her saying that she was trying so damn hard and all she needed was a pat on the back , ’ recalls a friend . |
| 20 | What we have , it seems , is a Court–Country division cutting across party , but one that is blurred by the fact that some old Tories ( even though backbenchers ) opposed a measure which they thought was an encroachment on the royal prerogative , whilst some Whigs ( even those close to the Court ) felt obliged to support a measure which reflected old Whig principles . |
| 21 | The Maan which Lawrence of Arabia knew was a way-station on the Hejaz railway taking pilgrims down to Mecca , and later was briefly capital of Transjordan before the Emir Abdullah , grandfather of King Hussein , moved with his tribal chiefs to Amman . |
| 22 | This appears simply to have been a trick on the part of the attorney , and not evidence that Rothbury was known to have been corrupt . |
| 23 | In 1601 Jaggard collaborated with Thomas Pavier to publish the only book of his own composition , a summary history of the lord mayors of London from Elizabeth 's accession until 1601 , and in 1602 he acquired what seems to have been a monopoly on the printing of playbills ( none survives ) . |
| 24 | On our list of possible causes to check was a leak on the air intake to the carburettor ( one of our first priorities , as the vacuum gauge was reading very low ) . |
| 25 | ‘ All they need to see is a squiggle on the required line . |
| 26 | Doyle had experienced Len Hatch when he had been a policeman on the beat . |
| 27 | There had been a bulb on the staircase but this had been removed by a stranger , for whose actions the defendants were not responsible . |
| 28 | Again , if there had been a Thatcherite on the programme , the Labour expert would have been blown out of the water . |
| 29 | Granny 's son had been a gamekeeper on the estate , but now that he had gone elsewhere to work Sir Benson had given Granny notice that she must quit the cottage . |
| 30 | I found myself half-way up the path between the rhododendrons before the conscious mind caught up with the fact that , though there had been a padlock on the garden gate , the gate had been unlocked . |