Example sentences of "have been [adv] [adj] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to their analysis of American industrial confrontations from the 1870s to the 1960s , violence has been most severe on those occasions when employers have tried to ‘ break ’ existing unions , or deny recognition to newly forming ones . |
| 2 | He has been particularly keen on educational pursuits . |
| 3 | Since the entire political strategy of his Democratic Leadership Council has been to persuade white folks that the Democratic Party no longer cares for ‘ minorities ’ and will target no particular money in their direction , Clinton has been predictably low on concrete ideas , coming down from the hills after the battle to suffocate the wounded with great cushions of blather about how ‘ we ’ have ‘ refused to confront our differences ’ and ‘ for this neglect we have all paid ’ . |
| 4 | The argument advanced by the anthropologist Clifford Geertz that human societies needed to be interpreted as texts has been especially influential on New Historicist thought . |
| 5 | SunSoft has been publicly quiet on Interactive Unix since acquiring the division at the new year despite the fact that its sales accounted for a significant portion of the record number of licenses it sold . |
| 6 | And I 'm glad the Chancellor has been fairly tough on public spending and holding down pay in the public sector . |
| 7 | Business has been pleasantly surprised on many occasions by the quality of school work . |
| 8 | The design process has been unnecessarily slow on many projects because the exchange of information between designers has been ineffective . |
| 9 | Set in Mexico , California and New York , this film finds Roeg in supreme command of the powerful and allusive style of film making , which has been so influential on other film makers . |
| 10 | Kenya has been so dependent on official aid and structural adjustment loans that its government dared not go in for countertrading — despite the fact that , like Brazil , it was surrounded by poor , debt-ridden neighbours . |
| 11 | His original plan had been largely dependent on much more time to play with , and involved a much closer personal interplay between himself and the young pilot . |
| 12 | When he had found her , on holiday in Bournemouth , she had been very keen on amateur theatricals . |
| 13 | My mum dabbed her eyes with her handkerchief and said , ‘ Arnold Bottomley had a seizure when he was on a canal boat and it took four of us to hold him , although he had been so easy-going on other trips , especially the Greek one that I did n't go on . |
| 14 | Jordan had been entirely dependent on Iraqi oil since September when Saudi Arabia had cut off supplies to Jordan [ see p. 37728 ] . |
| 15 | I 've been very bad on this recently , I 've really been too busy or tired , but I have got , I have , today I have had arrived oh not today , the last few days , the new mandate workshop , so |
| 16 | A similar picture on European Social Fund which is falling out , erm , mainly relating to schemes for people with learning disability , and we have been very successful on that front in attracting European funding for learning disability , particularly those schemes which have an element of , of training for , for employment associated with them . |
| 17 | specific points in the development of people , whilst that we recognise that the partners in practice was going to go into a quiet spell er something but we would run the risk if that happened on losing the expertise , the skill base that we 've got there and the undoubted qualities of the people within , we had to find a way in which we could use that skill base and other practice er of the practice and in fact that 's been quite successfully achieved in in recent months er with due diligence work for example er with legal support work is another example , when people in the insolvency practice have been very active on special science weeks ago tree . |