Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] [been] [vb pp] on " in BNC.

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1 For the independent pusher , it can be frustrating when you wheel yourself around a likely ‘ circular ’ route , only to discover some steps have not been marked on the map so you have to turn round and come back exactly the same way .
2 Doubts have repeatedly been expressed on the authenticity of Nasica 's speech in the Roman Senate to support this point of view .
3 The concept of grandiose municipal display can no longer be accepted ; doubts have even been cast on the Balkerne Gate at Colchester , long regarded as ‘ the largest monument of its kind in Britain , unmatched in size and preservation … ’
4 ‘ Certainly promises were made when Michael Knighton came to the club and doubts have now been cast on his ability to fulfil these , but if he does everything he has said who is to complain ? ’
5 Because of this vessels have often been stranded on the island in the past and there is a Coastguard Life Saving Apparatus team stationed there .
6 Recent rights issues , takeovers and even foreign exchange losses have all been sprung on an unsuspecting public rather than , as was the pattern in the mid-1980s , infiltrating the market through the columns of the Sunday newspapers .
7 The Government claims that 10,000 miners have already been put on buses to their place of origin .
8 For some of the bronzes , lead isotope ratios have now been obtained on lead extracted from the samples , and from two lead ore samples from the Benue Rift .
9 Former geothermal discharge areas have recently been recognized on the flanks and summits of several of these volcanoes .
10 If directions have already been given on pre-trial review , this appointment is not needed .
11 Key settlements have also been criticized on social grounds , a point that will be elaborated in the next section .
12 But if Conservatives have always been agreed on the main danger they face , and have always agreed on the basic means to combat it , they have not , Eccleshall argues , always been agreed on the precise manner of exercising authority and maintaining social discipline .
13 In addition , judges have frequently been employed on overseas matters .
14 However , though plaster models are known from antiquity , no certain traces of the use of a pointing machine have yet been found on Roman copies .
15 Legal and quasi-legal moves are made when things have gone wrong , where expectations have not been fulfilled on both sides , and often where students have not played the compliant role expected of them .
16 All statistical comparisons have therefore been made on logarithmically transformed data .
17 Bolts have also been used on some of the wilder walls of Cheddar Gorge to establish , bolts notwithstanding , some of the most challenging climbs in the region .
18 Brazil 's best known green congressman , Fabio Feldmann , warned that several state governors in the Amazon have recently been elected on an anti-ecology ticket , promising to protect farmers who burn down the rain forest .
19 Even now trout are being taken from the upper layers of the water and on more than one evening fish have surprisingly been caught on dry flies .
20 The procedures developed during this particular investigation have all been conducted on a Computer Vision turnkey system .
21 However , no experiments have yet been done on humans , so it might be best , for now , to keep a diary for your anniversaries .
22 Structural studies by TOF-SARS have mainly been done on monocrystalline surfaces .
23 Restriction orders banning cattle movement and sale of milk and meat have now been imposed on more than 300 farms , mostly in Cornwall and Devon but also in the Midlands .
24 Past efforts have largely been concentrated on the study of experimental catchments but most studies are limited to analyses of effects on a single component of the hydrologic cycle , such as the effect of urbanization on flood peaks , or are relevant only for a particular geographical setting .
25 The Santus Troupe partnership of Julian Santus and his sons Ernest and Roger was compulsorily liquidated by the VAT man at the end of last year and bankruptcy orders have now been made on all three .
26 These were initially in volume ( i.e. real opportunity cost ) terms , but since 1976 management techniques have increasingly been based on cash , i.e. what has to be paid out at current prices .
27 And , though the cats have not been polled on this point , I suspect they would share human mistrust of the new and unknown when approached with it by advertising researchers .
28 More fundamentally , no one knows why sunspots should occur at all — or perhaps these days we should call them ‘ starspots ’ , since similar areas of ( comparatively ) low energy emission have now been detected on the faces of other stars .
29 The patriarchal structures of psychoanalytic theory have often been defended on the grounds that they only describe the current customs of a patriarchal society .
30 Allegations that Mr Gandhi or members of his family received large sums have often been heard on opposition hustings , but not a shred of evidence exists that his hands dipped anywhere near the till .
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