Example sentences of "have been [adj] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There had been a good relationship on the whole between the management and myself and it has been supportive on both sides . ’ |
| 2 | Since then , he has been late on numerous occasions and we believe his alcohol consumption has increased . |
| 3 | It has been profitable on annual turnover of about £180m — $270m — over the past few years . |
| 4 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that the Transport and General Workers Union has been wrong on all the major issues facing the country in the past 12 years ? |
| 5 | Yes indeed , Bob Giles , the membership has been quiet on this issue . |
| 6 | However , it might be that psychiatric opinion would have been helpful on that aspect of the case . |
| 7 | No real consultation would have been necessary on that score . |
| 8 | Now , I 'm , I might have been remiss on this , but we had to do this in a hurry , erm , to get names in , and , but it 's been suggested by erm , the leader of the er , Conservative group on , on this Committee , that erm , a , a , member from each should , major group should go , and er , I 'm quite , I 'm quite inordinate , in favour of this , if we can get erm , bookings there now . |
| 9 | Antoine might have been blind on all normal frequencies but he knew how to assemble his do-it-yourself rig by touch and she marvelled at his deftness . |
| 10 | Although the chemistry of modern Earth-bound life is all carbon-chemistry , this may not be true all over the universe , and it may not always have been true on this Earth . |
| 11 | A king not universally popular , who owed his throne to assassination , must have been sensitive on such an issue , and maybe sometimes nervous of joining large assemblies of armed men . |
| 12 | Sometimes I wished he could have been harder on long-winded questioners , at others that he would resist the temptation to get into a private clinch with the politicians . |
| 13 | The pie parade , which included about fifty floats which had started from the neighbouring village of Scissett , arrived late at the pie field , having been stuck on various sections of the route , including the entrance to the field itself . |
| 14 | This interesting scheme has been described in detail by Challis and Davies ( 1987 ) and appears to have been successful on economic , social and psychological measures . |
| 15 | Nurse Valerie Roper said she had spoken to Allitt after the first two or three arrests at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital and mentioned that she had been present on each occasion . |
| 16 | ‘ Was that why you told Danny she shaved ? ’ asked Camille , who had been present on that occasion . |
| 17 | Albert Spanswick had been right on that and the hard men of his committee quite wrong . |
| 18 | A substantial proportion of the population , the refugees , had been dependent on international help since 1949 . |
| 19 | The rural sector had been dependent on external aid to support these people , and was in any case unable to employ all of them . |
| 20 | It was simply too demeaning to believe that the experience we had shared had been dependent on such things as the amount of booze Dennis put away that lunchtime . |
| 21 | The building society claimed repayment of interest under the provisions of section 35A of the Supreme Court Act 1981from the three dates on which the payments were made , on the ground that the principal had been repayable on those dates as sums paid pursuant to an unlawful demand . |
| 22 | ( The market 's post crash high had been 2,737.8 on 11 May 1992 . ) |
| 23 | And she had been pretty on that slab , all the influences of birth and upbringing cancelled out . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been busy on another plan . |
| 25 | for three weeks now I 've been stuck on eleven stone , I got , I lost nearly a stone in first five or six weeks , now I 've stopped |
| 26 | We 've been precise on this because this is , if you look at your agenda papers , er quite detailed suggestion , one of the quotas , one of the options er in fact that we , the same about officer 's , erm nine twenty er the basis er , er is , is erm a very near to the that 's thirty five including capital , er we had to go fur further , obviously and , but we picked the Labour figure er and I wonder a little because the advice we have is that once we go over nine twenty places become much more erm , unfortunately costly . |
| 27 | Two authors , at least , have been explicit on this subject . |
| 28 | Others have been half-trained on slippery floors , where they worry about keeping their feet , yet are yelled at for failing to respond quickly enough to commands . |
| 29 | That 's quite good because y often there is a country though , we have n't had many campaigns on countries sort of lately have we , it 's been more on different aspects on Amnesty 's work so they 're obviously going back to picking on countries where they deal , that 'll . |