Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though its timing caught out the markets , the krona/ecu link has been on the cards for some months . |
| 2 | Funding for research of this kind has been on a scale not approached by any other area of sociological enquiry . |
| 3 | In fact a more limited regime of this kind has been on the Soviet agenda for the Mediterranean for many years . |
| 4 | How many times have you sat down at your machine and thought ‘ I do n't think I can cope with this ’ and within the next five minutes all the knitting has been on the floor ? |
| 5 | The former pairing has been on the cards ever since critics fingered Penn as the brat who would be Bob but the latter seems less plausible . |
| 6 | Ever since then , Labour has been on the defensive , both ideologically and demographically . |
| 7 | While human evolution has oriented around the use of hand and eye , and developed down a highly visual and linear path , the dolphin mind has been on a very different track — acoustic , non-linear and non-manipulative . |
| 8 | Most of the talk has been on the Rocastle situation . |
| 9 | The man responsible for tackling Britain 's rising crime has been on the campaign trail in the region today . |
| 10 | The Australian tobacco industry has been on the very sick list for at least the past 16 years , with adult per capita consumption falling by about one third to its present annual level of 1827 grams . |
| 11 | The Treaty of Rome contained no specific references to the need for the Community to develop an Industrial Policy , consequently the main focus towards industry has been on competition policy , and on the creation of the SEM . |
| 12 | The British Library Research and Development Department , which , along with the National Foundation for Educational Research in England and Wales and the Schools Council , has funded most of this research , is aware of that problem , and using a standing committee called the Discussion Group on User Education in Schools , it is endeavouring to bring the research into general practice , and even to extend the influence of the work into other levels of education , eg primary schools ( the concentration has been on secondary education so far ) . |
| 13 | While much of the focus in this chapter has been on manufacturing where the reliance on small producers is relatively unusual among advanced economies , the small firm is dominant in many other sectors . |
| 14 | The 23-year-old has been on a weekly contract since last season , but emerged as a leading figure following the injury to Paul Elliott . |
| 15 | As has already been noted , however , most of this research has been on villages , rather than the more difficult scattered settlements ; the atypical patterns , such as the strings of villages in chalkland valleys , have received a disproportionate amount of attention ( Fig 15 ) |
| 16 | Here , Stoddard Templeton was well known ; all the staff in the department having been on sales training courses at Elderslie , which they recalled with morale boosting enthusiasm . |
| 17 | Loch Ness was in the pages again , this time because the only known Wellington bomber to exist is on the bottom . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't think it does anyone any good to have been on the same patch of ground for five hundred years . |
| 19 | His mind had been on the office . |
| 20 | It was suggested that one of the reasons for this was that his main work as an advocate had been on behalf of trade unions , and on one occasion he had walked out of the National Industrial Relations Court in protest at the judge . |
| 21 | ‘ Jill Jones 's album had been on the shelf for so long that when it did come out , it sounded old , ’ she reveals . |
| 22 | Once , not long ago , an old film called National Velvet had been on television and when the young Elizabeth Taylor appeared on the screen he had at once been sharply reminded of Mary — and had exited , not with the escape key but with the switch on the set . |
| 23 | Her whole concentration had been on getting to the airport as quickly as possible . |
| 24 | This central point in Marx 's and Engels 's work has been on the whole supported by later anthropological work . |
| 25 | One of the reasons for the improvement in pedestrian safety on the Continent over the past decade , is that the focus of traffic calming work has been on the areas where most people live , that is on existing , not new , residential areas . |
| 26 | First , the fact that those in residential care are young people not children ; second , that the main emphasis in child care work has been on the discussion of personal family relationships and in working towards the return of children to their own families or placement with another family . |
| 27 | The midwife said to me , ‘ This child has been on this earth before ’ and I thought that was rather an odd thing to say , but the midwife seemed quite adamant . |
| 28 | IT IS understood that this is the first time a former LMS type has been on the line and follows the successful hire of former GWR 2-8-0 3822 by the WSR this year . |
| 29 | Our marriage has been on the cards from day one , and there 's not a damned thing either of us can do about it . ’ |
| 30 | The engine has been on an electronic diagnosis machine ( like a Sun tester ) and everything was shown to be set just about right . |