Example sentences of "have [be] [adv] [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In sociological and anthropological literature the phatic use of language has been frequently commented on — particularly the conventional use of language to open talk-exchanges and to close them . |
| 2 | This type of equipment has been widely used on the continent of Europe and particularly in West Germany and Switzerland . |
| 3 | For example , one text which has been widely circulated on the extreme right in recent years is Gary Allen 's None Dare Call It Conspiracy . |
| 4 | Italy 's pro-Europeanism has been partly based on the belief that Italy does not have a real state , just corrupt politicians , and that the EC will provide one . |
| 5 | Here it 's obvious that money has been well spent on things that the animals actually need and use , with natural materials — and yet the public still gets a beautiful enclosure with good viewing facilities . ’ |
| 6 | The vital role of the burrowing earthworm in building soil structure and fertility has been sadly overlooked on modern farms . |
| 7 | In a typical experiment on latent inhibition , a stimulus that has been repeatedly presented on its own is used as the CS ( conditioned stimulus ) in a conditioning procedure and the course of acquisition of the CR ( conditioned response ) is compared with that shown when a novel stimulus is used as the CS . |
| 8 | Judicial review of the exercise of discretionary powers by administrative bodies has been self-consciously based on the need to ensure that the intention of the legislature is implemented and that discretionary power is subjected to some sort of control in the name of the Rule of Law . |
| 9 | In general terms , tax has been largely abolished on most life-time gifts , provided certain important conditions are met . |
| 10 | In the United States of America , ‘ Son-of-Sam ’ legislation has been unsuccessfully attacked on constitutional grounds including the vagueness of the terms of the statutes , the absence of procedural due process safeguards and the infringement of the first amendment rights of free speech . |
| 11 | Colgate toothpaste in the new tubes has been extensively advertised on British television . |
| 12 | Issues of feminist and psychological journals have featured discussions of it , and it has been extensively discussed on radio and television , and in popular magazines . |
| 13 | Lack of breakage , however , only characterizes some of the owl assemblages , but there has been little published on this subject . |
| 14 | Parsons has been strongly criticized on all these points . |
| 15 | Any suggestion that A levels should be changed has been strongly resisted on the ground that this would inevitably lower standards . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | During the last few years our strategy has been clearly focused on those businesses where we have significant competitive advantage . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Attention has been heavily concentrated on national campaigns and the activities of party leaders , despite the fact that there is some evidence to suggest that local campaigns may be becoming more important in influencing election results . |
| 20 | YOU KNOW IT 'S SAFE BECAUSE , LIKE ALL PURE CARE PRODUCTS , IT IS ALLERGY-SCREENED AND FRAGRANCE-FREE AND IT HAS BEEN THOROUGHLY TESTED ON HARD AND SOFT LENSES . |
| 21 | Swordfish is a great delicacy in Europe , and has been traditionally caught on longlines , although catch rates have been declining in recent years . |
| 22 | The famous locomotive was making its inaugural run over WSR metals on July 1 when the engineer working in the Leigh Wood region spotted the obstructions which has been deliberately placed on the running lines . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | The use of a number of the SCONUL tape-slide presentations for user instruction has been experimentally tested on Swedish users . |
| 25 | ANOTHER schoolgirl has been sexually attacked on her paper round , five days after a 14-year-old was raped . |
| 26 | This concern has been mainly concentrated on quality of work , training , avoidance of payment of income tax or national insurance , and conditions of employment . |
| 27 | Moreover , the empirical basis for his hypotheses about the budget maximisation assumption and the complicity of sponsors in the growth of government has been severely challenged on two main grounds . |
| 28 | Other notable examples include the Church at Znojmo and S. Maurice at Olomouc , though the latter has been much altered on the exterior ; it has a hall church interior . |
| 29 | Sonny 's guitar style — taking in everything from evocative Dobro through to sizzling lead , with a neat line in unlikely techniques like harmonics from nowhere and playing between the slide and the nut — has been perfectly showcased on his three solo albums to date , ‘ Blues Attack ’ , ‘ Way Down In Louisiana ’ and ‘ Outward Bound ’ ( the latter is highly recommended and is available in the UK on Zoo Records , through BMG ) . |
| 30 | For centuries , the World 's rubbish has been quietly dumped on open , uninhabited ground . |