Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] on [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can see what has been written on our medical records after November 1991 — but have no right to the earlier information . |
| 2 | Nineteenth-century amateurism has been stood on its head . |
| 3 | More recently this argument has been stood on its head with the suggestion that it was the rise of factory production which caused the technological developments which have given us today 's machinery . |
| 4 | The atmosphere moves from hard bop to cajun crunch and , for once , Billy boy has come up with a record that justifies all the praise that has been heaped on his shoulders . |
| 5 | What research has been done on their effects , especially in the United States , suggests that their importance is primarily as a reinforcing rather than a realigning agent . |
| 6 | Senior managers , on the other hand , mindful of the resource implications of the assessment responsibility which has been placed on their departments , may be looking for systems which will contain within manageable resource limits the potentially very high assessment workload for their staff . |
| 7 | He has been seated on his horse since 1916 , when he was installed , contemplating a chaos he would never have allowed from his soldiers . |
| 8 | But the defendant is left with a grievance and , in those circumstances , what I feel obliged to do is to accept the application that has been made on his behalf and to discharge you from returning a verdict in this case . ’ |
| 9 | Geochemistry has been categorised on its own at some times , but has been combined with Petrology , or with Mineralogy and Petrology , at other times . |
| 10 | ( 4 ) Many tenants object to forfeiture provisions applying where distress or execution has been levied on its goods at the premises , as even in the best run organisations this sometimes occurs and it is not always an indication that the tenant is in financial difficulty . |
| 11 | The third high-risk group comprises manual workers without hobbies and interests , whose entire social contact has been based on their workplace . |
| 12 | Indeed , many carers do n't identify themselves as such , partly because this particular job description has been coined on their behalf and many do n't even know what it means : |
| 13 | The weather has been turned on its head in recent years , with the transition from autumn to winter taking place anywhere from early October to late November . |
| 14 | Thus the popular EC argument that HDMAC is necessary because digital HDTV will not be a reality until at least the year 2000 , has been turned on its head . |
| 15 | The bloodied torso of what had been Balor lay twitching on the ground , moving clumsily , trying to pull itself along the ground , like a monstrous beetle which has been turned on its shelly back and can not right itself . |
| 16 | The research which has been conducted on their parenting and its outcomes for their children has often been flawed and equivocal . |
| 17 | A compulsory purchase order has been served on your business premises . |
| 18 | I certainly have no knowledge of of any contact with regard to the ultimate venue and nothing has been marked on my file . |
| 19 | I certainly have no knowledge of any contact with regard to the ultimate venue and nothing has been marked on my file . |
| 20 | From Bernard Shaw 's correspondence with Mrs Patrick Campbell some light has been thrown on his personal life and general outlook . |
| 21 | the tax that has been reclaimed on your behalf |
| 22 | It is likely to be the first occasion that the puppy has been left on its own , away from its mother and littermates , and as a result , once you have gone to bed , it may well feel disturbed , and start to howl . |
| 23 | The first came from a man in the front row , a crumpled , resilient-looking individual with the look of someone who has been dropped on his head from a great height at some stage in his life . |
| 24 | In discussions of the recent Italian novel , however , most attention has been focused on its treatment not of the future , but of the past . |
| 25 | A lot of it has been focused on my body — first for being too fat , now for being too thin . |
| 26 | A seven-year-old girl has been raped on her way to school in Essex |
| 27 | A seven-year-old girl has been raped on her way to school in Essex |
| 28 | Prima facie either the settlor has made a chargeable transfer which has attracted CTT on the value transferred ( unless his death before the passing of the Finance Act , 1975 , has prevented his disposition from being a chargeable transfer by giving rise to liability to estate duty under Section 2 ( 1 ) ( c ) of the Finance Act , 1894 ) or , in the case of a mortis causa settlement , either estate duty or CTT has been paid on his testamentary estate . |
| 29 | Why should we have been followed on our arrival in Peru ? |
| 30 | Internal reform , which only Great Britain took very seriously , was probably the only way in which the Ottoman Empire could have been kept on its feet . |