Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [to-vb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would mine uncle would let me have my life , though he takes my crown , ’ he had been heard to say on one occasion . |
| 2 | The reactor has been redesigned to run on low enriched uranium and its capacity upgraded from 5 to 10 megawatts . |
| 3 | Meanwhile a number of less formalised groups have been formed to advise on physical disability , learning difficulties ( separate groups for users and carers ) and HIV/AIDs . |
| 4 | Women ratepayers , married or unmarried , had long been permitted to sit on urban and rural district councils and parish councils , so that during the late 1890s the number of women holding elected office in local government ( including Poor Law and school board work ) may well have exceeded the number holding office today . |
| 5 | The Ministry of Information said on March 12 that fisheries patrol boats had been instructed to fire on foreign vessels fishing illegally inside the country 's 200-mile exclusive economic zone . |
| 6 | Managing is unusual in the extent in which it has been shown to rely on informal information . |
| 7 | In Britain , there are two principal alternatives that have been proved to work on many occasions . |
| 8 | However , I would point out in the passing , and apropos of nothing , that mass murderers have been known to dote on tiny tots . ’ |
| 9 | This may have partly contributed to the next important influence which has been brought to bear on hearing children read — the move towards parental involvement . |
| 10 | The trial had been fixed to commence on 5 May 1989 . |
| 11 | Dr Myerscough said he would not have let her go home without repeating the traces of the heartbeat or if she had gone home she would have been asked to attend on alternate days for check-ups . |
| 12 | It is the first time the North American public has been asked to vote on such an issue . |
| 13 | I have been asked to speak on this subject from the viewpoint of the Evangelical tradition and I am glad to do so , but with the following cautionary note . |
| 14 | With the restoration of Hampton Court Palace nearing completion , Trevor Barnes meets an American who has been asked to work on some of the most important recreations of Grinling Gibbons ' original carvings |
| 15 | It may be one of the first times citizens anywhere have been allowed to vote on detailed defence-procurement questions . |
| 16 | Launched with private funds in a room on the university 's campus , it has been forced to relocate on several occasions . |
| 17 | Many governments have also been forced to concentrate on short-term economic crisis management to the detriment of longer-term environmental protection measures . |
| 18 | Moreover the number of universities in Joseph 's dominions had by 1790 been reduced to a mere three ( Vienna , Louvain and Pest ) and these had been forced to concentrate on such useful subjects as medicine and law and virtually to end the teaching of luxury ones such as foreign languages . |
| 19 | These authorities , be they judges , constitutional lawyers or senior political scientists , have come to this view as they have been forced to ponder on two things . |
| 20 | This is not a criticism of such models , for they have been constructed to focus on important issues of wage and employment determination . |
| 21 | It welcomed the progress made by the UN and the Organization of African Unity for the holding of a referendum in the Western Sahara , and noted " with appreciation " that a technical commission had been created to work on this task . |
| 22 | It had been established to report on existing conditions of banking and credit , and to consider feasible steps in respect of the provision of banking and credit facilities for agriculture , industry and trade . |