Example sentences of "have been on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was no more comfortable on the radio programme than he would have been on the real desert island . |
| 2 | I sometimes wonder at the sheer multiplicity of the oyster Gryphaea arcuata there must have been on the earliest Jurassic sea-floors over what is now Europe , and the millions upon millions of creatures ( whatever they were ) that chewed their way through mid Jurassic mud to produce the trace-fossil Zoophycos . |
| 3 | But of course , Agnes realised , Sims — or whoever he 'd been born — must once have been on the far side of The Wall , too . |
| 4 | If there was any honour in this Government , Mr Heseltine 's resignation would have been on the Prime Minister 's desk at the same time as the High Court judgment . |
| 5 | I should have been on the following flight to bring you back . |
| 6 | Before his reign the site would have been on the southernmost borders of the empire ; when he died it was at the empire 's heart . |
| 7 | Any higher and we would have been on the bloody roof , and squeezed into rather mean , dark garrets . |
| 8 | Schwartzman and Volk reckon that weathering was helped along to such an extent that the Earth is 35°C cooler than it would have been on the lifeless Earth . |
| 9 | It would not come although it must have been on the same day as the trip to the cathedral and her aunt had undoubtedly been with her . |
| 10 | Effectively this means that the previous dealings must have been on the same terms and a consistent procedure must have been followed . |
| 11 | By the way , I am convinced that the black girl who joined us should have been on the cultural induction course next door . |
| 12 | The ketos , to which the hero is advancing would have been on the missing part of the stone . |
| 13 | ‘ No , ’ she replied , ‘ if I 'd had black parents to go home to , they would have been on the receiving end of aggro all day long as well . ’ |
| 14 | In normal times , I might have been on the next flight out and by morning Miss Schlegel — a schoolgirl , yes , but what a schoolgirl , probably tanned , certainly firm and bouncy , and unquestionably an amateur theologian of weird and savage genius — would have found herself thickly slathered in Noxzema Regular Protective Shave Formula and roped to a groyne . |