Example sentences of "who have [been] [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He joins a general strike by those who have been dispossessed on Urras and tells them : ‘ ( on Anarres ) we have nothing but our freedom . |
| 3 | In this study we have assessed renal function in a group of patients who have been maintained on delayed release mesalazine from six months to over six years . |
| 4 | provide a mainly academic education for pupils aged 11 to 19 who have been selected on the basis of ability . |
| 5 | The relatively high completion rates for the ‘ Other NSEs ’ reflects the fact that this includes students with ‘ professional , nursing , technical or secretarial qualifications ’ The pattern which emerges is that students who have been selected on the basis of success in some form of study which prepares them for the demands which will be placed on them in higher education respond as least as well if not better than the traditionally qualified A-level entrants , while those with less evidence of success of this kind find the transition to higher education difficult and are more likely to drop-out . |
| 6 | Studies of series of patients who have been operated on report survival not much worse than that expected for the age matched general population , but they ignore the possible effects of length-time bias and case selection for operation . |
| 7 | The conflict also comes out of another division within the working class itself , between its respectable and upward-striving representatives and the poor , who have been dumped on the derelict estates . |
| 8 | These components are interpreted in social terms after the analysis by considering the social characteristics of the speakers who have been sorted on the basis of their linguistic behaviour into the two groups ( periphery and core ) which emerge in Figure 6.1 . |