Example sentences of "have [be] [adj] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 31 | He said the soldier told him he had been struck a glancing blow by the car , but that he had not been knocked over and afterwards had been able to continue on duty . |
| 32 | Up to 1946 , Truman had been able to rely on support from both Democrats and Republicans in dealing with the Soviet Union . |
| 33 | She had been experiencing considerable feelings of grief about her husband and had been able to cry on occasions . |
| 34 | Observers compared the plan to Poland 's " shock therapy " reforms and noted that the Russian government had been slow to build on the progress made by democratic forces in the failed coup . |
| 35 | He did n't tell her that he had been so worried about her that it had been hard to concentrate on sharing the hurt with Marcus , on blocking out the punishment–hey put him through . |
| 36 | The Constitutional Court had been unable to rule on the code , as the version adopted at the Congress had since been altered . |
| 37 | Hitherto the republics and provinces had been unable to agree on a budget and international financial institutions had accordingly blocked credits . |
| 38 | East and West Germany had been unable to agree on the issue of abortion before unification in 1990 . |
| 39 | Venetiaan , a former Education Minister , received 645 votes from the 817-member United People 's Assembly summoned by the National Assembly , which in two ballots had been unable to decide on a president . |
| 40 | How often had this meant an edgy evening , when she had been unable to concentrate on what people were saying because of an ill-placed fabric rose or an over-embroidered antique shawl ? |
| 41 | She had been unable to concentrate on her reading , her mind constantly straying to the conversation she had had with him in the rose gardens . |
| 42 | This afternoon , though , he had been unable to concentrate on the case he was preparing . |
| 43 | It 's ages since I 've been able to sit on the windowsill . |
| 44 | Dockers at Sharpness are expected to return to work on Monday , although they 've been reluctant to speculate on any future action . |
| 45 | So far we have been content to copy on the initial and final values for January 1984 and October 1985 ( y 1 and y N ) but we can do better . |
| 46 | ‘ It is quite some time now since I last wrote to you , but both my wife Joan and I have been busy putting on shows for the Children 's Rescue Society , The Family Rainbow Trust , old people 's homes and Guide Dogs for the Blind , etc . |
| 47 | I am delighted that I have been able to hit on that point , because the flexibility means that the Opposition can not claim that they will not have enough time to debate those clauses . |
| 48 | For over 20 years mums have been able to rely on Calpol to relive their children 's aches and pains , fevers and teething troubles . |
| 49 | So , Sir , I have been able to reflect on the inherent good sense of the people of Worcester over the years I have been privileged to be the Member for that constituency . |
| 50 | As for the borrowing lecture and the lecture on job creation , I have been able to state on a number of occasions when I have been a little more demotic that all independent forecast suggest that under a Labour Government — heaven forbid — borrowing and unemployment would be higher . |
| 51 | Both bodies have been able to comment on draft PPGs and MPGs and have secured a number of improvements to their content . |
| 52 | In professional terms , not needing to be constantly concerned to update their language competence , EFL teachers have been able to focus on methodological developments . |
| 53 | This protects the public gaze from the true story and means that for a decade the authorities have been able to work on the assumption that what the eye does n't see the heart wo n't grieve over . |
| 54 | They have been able to work on problems not in order to satisfy an authoritative teacher , but because the problems are intrinsically interesting and challenging . |
| 55 | 2 They recognise that the system has tended to provide for " strong " government in that most post-war governments have been able to count on an absolute majority of seats in the House of Commons , but they regard this strength as a bad thing . |
| 56 | To date the U S have been able to count on diplomatic backing from the Soviet Union over its stand against Iraq ; but Bush would like them to take a more active military role in the Gulf . |
| 57 | Advertisers have been quick to cash-in on this new health-consciousness . |
| 58 | Despite deep concern over the possibility of a major nuclear accident in the former Soviet republics or Eastern Europe , Western governments have been unable to agree on a comprehensive aid package to improve safety standards [ see also ED65/66 ] . |
| 59 | Publishers have been reluctant to comment on this proposed scheme at present , but it is believed to be an agreement whereby a publisher 's rep would be given authority to put into the store any title in any quantity , for example 500 copies of a new title , and after 60 days would take back any copies the manager no longer wanted . |