Example sentences of "have been [adj] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terry Venables has been keen on the 23-year-old for months and armed with over £2million from the Stewart sale , is set to move in on the £1.2m-rated player . |
| 2 | West Belfast Action for the Unemployed has been active on the punitive effects of social security policies on unemployed people in the area . |
| 3 | On 16 October 1991 , after a hearing in chambers to consider wasted costs after the jury in a criminal trial had been discharged and a retrial ordered , Judge MacRae made an order against the appellant , H. , a barrister who had acted as defence counsel at the trial , disallowing ‘ such part of the brief fee which would otherwise have been payable on the initial trial as exceeds what would be the proper enhanced refresher for the retrial … ’ under the provisions of section 19A(1) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 , as inserted by section 111 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 . |
| 4 | It is always interesting to note how handicappers assess maiden race form in comparison with sellers , and in allotting Peak District a 17lb higher rating than Dari Sound , the official may have been over-harsh on the former . |
| 5 | All may have been quiet on the 808 State front over the last year but , far from resting on their laurels , the techno titans have been locked in the studio , ripping it up on the mixing desk . |
| 6 | Tax reform had been low on the political agenda before 1965 , with the basic structure of taxes remaining unchanged for decades . |
| 7 | Despite pleas from the Channel Tunnel companies the project was abandoned on January 20 1975 after some 300m of tunnel had been bored on the French side and 400m on the British . |
| 8 | And then she 's been average on the last three or four months she 's been on eight stone . |