Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [adj] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that would not explain why some of the sermons that have had the greatest impact on us have not necessarily been high on the performance scale . |
| 2 | Rektum will spend the money on reassembling their career in a less pressurised climate : up to now their recordings have only been available on bootleg cassettes , while their live performances have taken place exclusively underground . |
| 3 | This dastardly Dizzy adventure has only been available on compilation … until now ! |
| 4 | DEC is likely to add an open application programming interface to ACMS , which has previously only been available on VMS-based server platforms . |
| 5 | She was a weak fool — the pillow received another thump — imagining things when he had only been intent on silencing her . |
| 6 | The allocation was decided at the highest level of government , and radio broadcasting had long been low on the list of priorities . |
| 7 | Corporate users are hankering after the sort of power , networking features and ‘ scalability ’ ( the ability to expand a network almost infinitely ) that have long been available on workstations . |
| 8 | The South African economy has long been dependent on minerals , especially gold . |
| 9 | The DKP had long been dependent on the East German Socialist Unity Party of Germany ( SED — ultimately renamed the Party of Democratic Socialism ( PDS ) in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) and had suffered as a result of the changes in East Germany ; the ending of financial support from the SED had led to a scaling down of operations . |
| 10 | I fell hard against the asphalt playground and I felt the pain that had not been visible on film . |
| 11 | As such , the private investor has not been keen on Taurus . |
| 12 | Its low-arched entrance off one of the narrow lanes linking High Street and Broad Street could easily have been overlooked had Harry not been intent on locating it . |
| 13 | K. M. On one occasion , there was a chap — not been long on the job — ex-Artilleryman . |
| 14 | It has not been easy on three hours sleep a night . |
| 15 | If they said they had not been upset on being told the diagnosis , this actually was the case ; they were not suffering from amnesia . |
| 16 | Secretary John Coker said the fans had not been disappointed on their return , despite Aryle 's 2–1 defeat at Ayresome Park . |
| 17 | Management has not been insistent on displacing the permanent/temporary worker system with job seniority procedures ( i.e. first in/first out ) because of its own sense of paternalistic responsibility and because of the flexibility of operations afforded by the employment of temporary workers . |
| 18 | To which I would answer , first , that the witness is not before the court and has not been cross-examined on the matter , and secondly that just because something 's a ‘ well-known fact ’ this does n't make it a well-known fact about me . |
| 19 | Such thinking has generally been wrong on every count . |
| 20 | Maybe so , but IBM has n't exactly been quiet on the soap box either — look around and you 'll see plenty of advertising from them — which is where the ‘ better DOS than DOS and a better … ’ quote came from . |
| 21 | ‘ Gazza has always been brilliant on the football field and it will be great to see him back after the long haul he 's had . ’ |
| 22 | Michael Edwards , taking a paradoxical approach , has argued that the English have always been strong on literary theory , instancing a distinguished succession of poet-critics : Sidney , Dryden , Johnson , Wordsworth , Coleridge , Shelley , Arnold , Eliot . |
| 23 | Tim Hely Hutchinson says that Thomas has been ‘ crucial ’ to the development of Headline , and the company has always been strong on marketing . |
| 24 | In Uganda I had always been keen on the latest styles , trying new clothes from week to week . |
| 25 | ‘ Journalists have always been keen on the idea of a ‘ Punk Revival ’ and now that a few bands like the Buzzcocks , Sham 69 and X-Ray Spex are back together they 're having a field day . |
| 26 | The explanation given was that he had always been keen on guns . |
| 27 | I had always been keen on hillwalking and loved nothing more than escaping to the peace of the hills with my three oldest and closest friends . |
| 28 | No matter what Bob says or Harry or any other member of the Conservative group , and I accept that they 've always been consistent on it the same as the Labour group has always been consistently against the merger I accept that they 've been consistently in favour of a total merger . |
| 29 | There is evidence that volatile materials have always been scarce on the Moon . |
| 30 | Since 1980 , the economy , which has always been dependent on exports of a small range of agricultural products , especially coffee , has become highly dependent on US aid . |