Example sentences of "have been on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman was then driven around for over an hour and believes part of the journey may have been on a motorway . |
| 2 | ‘ It wo n't have been on a weighing machine since it left the village where it was grown . ’ |
| 3 | Must have been on a visit . |
| 4 | I suspect they do n't think I 'd be identified by any of the witnesses or I 'd have been on an identity parade by now , but it just all looks so obvious : it must be me . |
| 5 | How could she have been on the river ? |
| 6 | For a start , most dealers were young and ignorant characters who before drifting into their present positions might have been on the dole , or at University , or in menial office jobs , at which time they probably did n't even know what stocks and shares were . |
| 7 | The upper team would have been on the logging track above the natural amphitheatre when he broke for cover . |
| 8 | He must have been on the phone as soon as she had stormed out of the door . |
| 9 | If it had been genuine , they 'd have been on the phone quick enough if we 'd not arrived . |
| 10 | Besides , Mr Ramaphosa 's claim that the negotiations would otherwise have been on the threshold of a breakthrough is questionable . |
| 11 | ‘ I should have realized at once — that Frenchman who was killed , the same poison must still have been on the skin of his attackers , and it would almost certainly still have been strong enough to affect him as well ! |
| 12 | The idea had arisen for Frank through his location and questions that had come up about muons ; Sakharov had been developing fusion in secret and picked up the notion because he would have been on the lookout for any papers about fusion , of whatever sort . |
| 13 | Laurin concluded that the Tetraceratops , as a species , lay between the pelycosaurs and therapsids , and that it must have been on the way to becoming a mammal . |
| 14 | ‘ Now I find out he should never have been on the road . |
| 15 | No telling us where I do n't know this one come but being a foreign driver I mean he he could have from anywhere in the country and he could have been on the road a long time . |
| 16 | The boat was just as it should have been on the night of the murder and had not been . |
| 17 | The Premier could just as easily have been on the slalom — ducking and diving as MPs taunted him over the Exchange Rate Mechanism fiasco . |
| 18 | He instantly spotted the ‘ yorker ’ delivered by the man from BBC Wales — in effect , that the England match could not have been one he expected to win at the start of the season , therefore the Scottish match must have been on the credit side of the ledger . |
| 19 | He did n't make it to the course on the next day , was sacked , and always maintained that if he had n't given up the drink for those ten days or so and ‘ dried out ’ he would not have got so drunk , would have been on the course at the appointed time , would not have lost his job , and would have have carried for yet another Open Champion . |
| 20 | One of the most important impacts of The Brow should thus have been on the content and dissemination of subsequent official guidance on residential road layout . |
| 21 | This conservatism was arguably excessive , given the subsequent relatively trouble-free experience of most of the innovations in power station design which might realistically have been on the agenda at this time . |
| 22 | Although the number of Poles may have been on the increase there was very little sign in Prussia that they were organising to reinstate an independent Poland . |
| 23 | ‘ They will have a point to prove to me that they should have been on the tour . |
| 24 | But if these light rays were swallowed up by the black hole , then they could not have been on the boundary of the black hole . |
| 25 | Although the US may never have been on the brink of intervention in China she had sent 50,000 marines to Northern China in 1945 , followed by General Marshall acting as Truman 's personal representative . |
| 26 | Often a son or daughter will have been on the brink of a promising career when they developed their first symptoms . |
| 27 | He jumped up from the chair he was sitting on and knocked something on to the floor , something that must have been on the arm . |
| 28 | I was met by a very respectful group of Gordon Highlanders when I visted Aberdeen recently , when I said that I would have been on the line as well had I been in their position . |
| 29 | Mr Gowans explained O'Connor should never have been on the beat . |
| 30 | Smith should have been on the bench for London 's game against the Midlands last Saturday but had to drop out with the same complaint . |