Example sentences of "have been [verb] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two important road improvements in Cleveland have been completed on schedule . |
| 2 | SECRET service agents HAVE been snooping on Princess Diana and other members of the Royal Family , The People can reveal . |
| 3 | Previous estimates of the amount of methane emitted by cattle as they digest their food have been based on experiments in sealed chambers , where cattle 's behaviour is different from when they are outside . |
| 4 | Many of the criticisms of Davis and Moore 's views have been based on evidence which indicates that no stratification system operates as their theory argues . |
| 5 | She concludes that , on balance , the RMCs have done an excellent job and that the most successful ones have been based on colleges or groups of colleges which already had pockets of energy and entrepreneurial spirit and like the South West RMC were closely linked with the communities they served . |
| 6 | Most comparisons between human and animal insulins have been based on responses to acute hypoglycaemia , often in non-diabetic subjects , and have found little or no difference between responses with the different species of insulins . |
| 7 | However a number of these studies have been based on percentages of graduates , rather than all those who had originally entered the degree programmes . |
| 8 | To date most stratification schemes have been based on exercise testing , Hotter recordings and coronary arteriography though a number of newer variables have been recently investigated . |
| 9 | Most text retrieval systems have been based on statistics and probabilities . |
| 10 | Yet Alice and Henry may feel that all the great stories have been told — all the utopian political experiments have come to nothing , even though most of them have been based on fables , myths , irrational dreams and lies . |
| 11 | There have been few studies of adults with cystic fibrosis with respect to employment , education , housing , insurance , and other features of lifestyle , and most such studies have been based on patients attending large clinics , who may be unrepresentative of the total population with the disease . |
| 12 | Two policemen were shot dead in Johannesburg yesterday , bringing to 40 the number of South African police members who have been assassinated on duty so far this year . |
| 13 | But the area office files also carry ‘ white ’ information , in the form of the date and the sum involved in any potential transaction when they have been consulted on behalf of the member ; also the customer 's occupation , and an outline of any transaction actually made with the customer ( though members may not report this to UAPT ; so the note of sums involved in potential transactions which have been the subject of previous inquiries tend to be taken as indications of credit arrangements which have actually been entered in ) |
| 14 | Is not it hard that all those measures have been placed on students at a time when they find it particularly difficult to get vacation jobs or part-time jobs in term time and when those who graduate find it increasingly difficult to get jobs to pay off the overdrafts that they have had to incur as students ? |
| 15 | The restrictions that have been placed on development in these areas have partly secured these conservationist goals . |
| 16 | In the illustration in table 5.4 three values have been placed on time spent travelling , a frequent element in many CBA analyses . |
| 17 | Now the company is making more than 200,000 lollies a week and staff have been placed on overtime to cope with extra demand . |
| 18 | Limited financial resources have been overconcentrated on health care in the hospital sector and health professionals are generally inappropriately trained to meet the needs of the community . |
| 19 | They are descended from a common ancestress through female links only and they have been nurtured on food which derives from a common parcel of land . |
| 20 | Data have been compiled on computer about the career and demographic backgrounds of all those who have held positions of leadership in the hierarchies of the Chinese communist Party , the state administration , and the People 's Liberation Army at provincial and regional levels . |
| 21 | Firstly , it is inadvisable to take remedies consisting of mixtures as no homoeopathic provings have been done on mixtures and it is not known whether the effects of these are different from the effects of their individual components . |
| 22 | Most experiments on sexual imprinting have been done on birds . |
| 23 | Studies have been done on humans , intact animals , isolated gastric mucosa , and gastric cell cultures to study the effect of ethanol on gastric cell function . |
| 24 | Animal rights activists have been bailed on condition that they do not attend any hunt meetings in England or Wales . |
| 25 | Those who 've noticed the number of times the Sedgefield MP 's cherubic opinions have been aired on television recently will little doubt it . |
| 26 | In Japan the securities industry , whose profits have been built on shares sold to housewives in the Japanese equivalent of Tupperware parties , is desperately worried that last year 's stockmarket crash may have brought the party to an end . |
| 27 | He joins a general strike by those who have been dispossessed on Urras and tells them : ‘ ( on Anarres ) we have nothing but our freedom . |
| 28 | Many of them have been printed on metal , as 2 in. square daguerreotypes . |
| 29 | None of them have been tested on animals and all bottles are recyclable . |
| 30 | None of the 18 products in the range have been tested on animals , they 're ozone-friendly , perfumed with Oil of Rosemary and contain no colourants . |