Example sentences of "[adv] been [vb pp] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that to sustain a plea of autrefois convict a defendant had to prove not only that he had already been found guilty of the offence charged by a court of competent jurisdiction , either by the decision of the court or verdict of the jury or entry of his own plea of guilty , but also that the court had finally disposed of the case by passing sentence or making some other order ; that since the proceedings on the first indictment had been discontinued before sentence had been passed there had been no final adjudication and the defendant had properly been convicted on the second indictment ; but that , in all the circumstances , particularly having regard to the lapse of time between trial and determination of the appeal to the Judicial Committee , it would be appropriate for the death sentence to be commuted ( post , pp. 931D–E , 935H ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Suffice to say that six of those invoices , supposedly coming from Rasiklal in Bombay , had apparently been typed on an Inca typewriter in England , ’ said prosecutor James Curtis . |
| 3 | Suffolk County Council has long been over-stretched on the conservation side , and comparable houses have suffered from lack of expert advice . |
| 4 | But colonialism , the tensions caused by a feudal economy 's reaction to capitalism and finally the effects of capitalism itself have all been imposed on a social structure which can be traced much further back . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | While great emphasis has rightly been placed on the active involvement of the pupils in their learning , it should always be remembered that there is still a place for the teacher to convey a feel for an event or person by presenting the story . |
| 7 | THE whistle has finally been blown on a controversial battle over a five-a-side football complex in Middlesbrough . |
| 8 | A very large amount had already been collected on a voluntary basis by religious groups for the Famine , making it seem almost superfluous or extortionate to do more . |
| 9 | It is much easier and it 's much safer and it strikes me to be making the case for a western relief road to provide the relief north to the A one , has already been achieved on the six five eight . |
| 10 | Comment has already been made on the continuing changes within the industry . |
| 11 | Much work has already been generated on the biological mechanisms involved . |
| 12 | An indemnity basis taxation of costs that have already been taxed on the standard basis would seem to us to lead to the conclusion that the costs of the standard basis taxation were unnecessarily and unreasonably incurred and should be disallowed on the taking of the account . |
| 13 | David Campese has already been signed on a full-time marketing role and a Farr-Jones will also have a strong role in Channel Ten 's rugby presentations . |
| 14 | Previously the budget had always been allocated on a historical basis . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Building News said that it was ‘ the greatest scandal and disgrace that has ever been inflicted on the architectural profession ’ . |
| 18 | The agreement will cost the Basque authorities the equivalent of a total of £108 million ( $189 million ) , which is more than has ever been spent on a single cultural project in Bilbao since the city 's decision to create a Fine Art Museum in 1908 . |
| 19 | The growth hormone locus has also been mapped on the long arm of chromosome 17 , at 17q 22–24 , close to the BRCA1 gene in breast and ovarian cancer families . |
| 20 | Medical opinion has so far been divided on the precise relationship of nicotine to such conditions as cardiovascular disease and oral cancer , with many experts considering tar and carbon monoxide to be the most toxic substances in tobacco . |
| 21 | The third volume of Antologia devoted to Neo-classical studies ( n.s. nos. 39–42 , 1991–92 ) includes a highly important article by the editor , Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios , which recapitulates what has so far been published on the great Roman bronze founders Francesco and Luigi Righetti and then adds twice as much more and concludes with a fascinating technical account of the casting of Canova 's equestrian statue of Charles III Borbone in Naples taken from a family notebook . |
| 22 | The latest , which has now been introduced on a voluntary basis , is that , instead of one of his A levels , a pupil may take two AS ( supplementary ) level examinations , demanding half the time each of a full A level . |
| 23 | The original stones of the sloping gable coping had simply been bedded on the slate-roof covering of the aisles at their verges so that rain entering the joints between the coping stones had saturated the top courses of the stone facing and caused premature decay . |
| 24 | I suspect that the theology of Genesis 22 is not to be pushed very far , that cautious theology has here been sacrificed on the fine altar of dramatic tension and powerful storytelling . |
| 25 | Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc have successfully completed their project to bring the Macintosh system to mainstream computing , but no decision has yet been made on a commercial follow-up : Novell chief financial officer James Tolonen says the companies wanted to see whether Macintosh System could run atop a different operating system and on a different chip , yet still maintain the user-friendly features of the Apple system . |
| 26 | Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc have successfully completed their project to bring the Macintosh system to mainstream computing , but no decision has yet been made on a commercial follow-up , Novell chief financial officer James Tolonen told the Hambrecht & Quist conference . |
| 27 | Geographical separation between those solicitors and staff continuing to deal with the case and those who have previously been involved on the other side is recommended and it will be essential to extract appropriate undertakings from all such personnel . |
| 28 | ‘ They were going to try a new drug on him which had never been tested on a human being before in an effort to try and stop the progress of the tumour . |
| 29 | Many farmers still retained some milk for cheesemaking but regulations on the production and use of milk during the Second World War almost brought farmhouse production to a halt and it has never been resumed on an appreciable scale . |
| 30 | 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 . |