Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] [v-ing] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been exposed as a secret police informer under the ousted communist regime , although he insisted that his activities had been confined to reporting on foreign visitors to Sofia 's Natural History Museum ( where he had been a department head ) and on his visits abroad for scientific research ; he categorically denied that he had ever informed on dissidents . |
| 2 | The police have been accused of passing on confidential information about a fourteen-year-old delinquent who 's spending two weeks in Spain at taxpayers ' expense . |
| 3 | The police have been accused of passing on confidential information about a fourteen-year-old delinquent who 's spending two weeks in Spain at taxpayers ' expense . |
| 4 | If by any chance the cassette has already been used for recording on another machine ( for example , on a VHS mains VCR ) , remember to check that the cassette 's safety-tab is still in place , otherwise , you may be baffled by your camcorder 's refusal to do any recording ! |
| 5 | Much of a seven page appendix to the Head 's progress report on his Five Year Plan 1974 to 1979 had been devoted to commenting on these earlier departmental reviews . |
| 6 | This research has been linked with teaching on two Master 's degree courses entitled The Pupil Experience and Special Educational Needs in the Ordinary School . |
| 7 | There is an interesting difference here between the approach in England and Wales from that in Northern Ireland where a cross-curricular front has been started before embarking on marching orders for the separate subjects . |