Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [vb pp] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lack of breakage , however , only characterizes some of the owl assemblages , but there has been little published on this subject . |
| 2 | Predictive readability formulae such as those of Flesch ( 1948 ) and Dale and Chall ( 1948 ) have been widely used on both sides of the Atlantic for decades . |
| 3 | Thus to honour the first of the Roman emperors an orderly arrangement was reduced to an illogical jumble that many people find difficult to remember but which in the course of 2,000 years has been successfully imposed on most of the world . |
| 4 | She and her brothers had always found the idea of ancestral spirits appearing during the Cia ceremony an awesome prospect , but her sense of unease had been greatly heightened on this occasion by the fear of unknown punishments that seemed certain to follow the incident involving her baby gibbon at the governor 's palace . |
| 5 | Since its inception , this procedure has been fiercely attacked on many occasions , including The Black Report ( Townsend and Davidson , 1982 ) and The Health Divide ( Whitehead , 1987 ) for failing to take account of morbidity and of social deprivation ( see Mays and Bevan , 1987 , for a review of the vast literature generated by the debate on the use of the RAWP formula ) . |
| 6 | ( In fact , the corporation had been wrongly reported on this score and had issued no such edict at all . ) |
| 7 | In general terms , tax has been largely abolished on most life-time gifts , provided certain important conditions are met . |
| 8 | The quiet road on the heath has already been coarsely widened on both sides to form a half mile long car park with Pay and Display ticket machines . |
| 9 | The sportingness and fairmindedness of those supporters has been clearly demonstrated on many occasions , particularly following their sides sad departure from the FA Cup at Bramall Lane where there was only one ‘ serious disorder ’ outside the ground — nice to know they can take defeat so graciously . |
| 10 | During the last few years our strategy has been clearly focused on those businesses where we have significant competitive advantage . |
| 11 | The width had been correctly judged on this occasion ; but the gravediggers had skimped on the length . |
| 12 | The commission had been correctly paid on all the relevant purchases except that of Framwells — the chain of tobacconist shops — which was easily the biggest deal Mike had handled . |
| 13 | Parsons has been strongly criticized on all these points . |
| 14 | Mick and Paddy had been well briefed on most things , but in the last-minute rush they were not given full details of my self-made code of conduct . |
| 15 | ‘ We treated hardship cases sympathetically , and we feel they have almost all been honourably resolved on both sides . |