Example sentences of "have been [verb] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some definitions of style have been based on this assumption . |
| 2 | The pros and cons of the various procedures involved have been debated on many occasions with much ardour and conviction , and not a little prejudice . |
| 3 | Under the Belfast Urban Area Plan strict restrictions have been placed on any further office development outside the city centre . |
| 4 | I happen to believe that the fears that have been voiced on that account are exaggerated . |
| 5 | Extensive stretches of the walls of his nave have been traced on each side of the existing nave , although we do not yet know if it had an aisle along each flank . |
| 6 | About 60 responses have been received on each of the documents . |
| 7 | Yet whole socio-cultural theories , of a kind , have been built on this kind of argument . |
| 8 | ‘ I have been asked on many occasions if we could have more modern replacements for our 12-year-old sail designs . |
| 9 | Old problems of contacts breaking or the case deteriorating have been rectified on most models . |
| 10 | We think that such a duty is imposed by law ; and on consideration of the Statute of Elizabeth , l and of the cases which have been decided on this subject , we are all of the opinion that a party can not maintain an action for compensation for loss of time in attending a trial as a witness . |
| 11 | Members may well be aware of , of some of the actions that the A T C have been taking on this , and have been calling on that to actually look at that to list of alternate . |
| 12 | Impressive translations have been made on such a basis , though usually by poets . |
| 13 | After housing , the service in which privatisation has made the most progress is the NHS , inroads have been made on several interrelated fronts . |
| 14 | Of all the things that are project based , they have been audited on those projects , all the other procedures |
| 15 | Complete books have been written on this subject which will give much more information about when a condition is likely to be serious or not . |
| 16 | Complete books have been written on this subject which will give much more information about when a condition is likely to be serious or not . |
| 17 | Volumes have been written on this subject but I will offer a succinct aim that sums up , for me , the essence of good practice : |
| 18 | And actually have been to support on many occasions in her constituency . |
| 19 | Doubts have been cast on this interpretation , but insufficient evidence is available to reassess it in terms of the more typical two-phase sequence . |
| 20 | These conclusions have been challenged on this appeal . |
| 21 | That is a good response by the Brazilian Government to the concerns that have been expressed on both sides of the House . |
| 22 | Allelic losses , insertions , and point mutations have been detected on many other chromosomes but it has still to be established whether such changes function simply as markers for colorectal cancer , or as potential prognostic indicators . |
| 23 | Meetings for our members have been held on both of these issues , and in response to the scrutiny review , we circulated our membership with our detailed submission to the government to inform their own responses . |
| 24 | Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause . |
| 25 | I have been working on this book about the Prince of Palatine for over 25 years ; I 'll never finish it , but who cares , it 's interesting , especially since I can read seventeenth-century German which very few people can . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ We have been working on this project for 14 months , and it 's been difficult to persuade people that we have no political objectives . |
| 27 | Mr Ed Sweeney , Bifu 's deputy general secretary , said yesterday : ‘ Both banks have been working on these cuts for months and then choose today to axe jobs . ’ |
| 28 | Scholars from various disciplines have been working on these problems since the mid-1940s . |
| 29 | But I have been working on some things especially for Pierantozzi , and hopefully I will get a chance to try them out . ’ |
| 30 | A number of experiments with financial incentives to reduce rubbish have been tried on both sides of the Atlantic , and others have been considered . |