Example sentences of "have [adv] been on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of its size it has rarely been on view there this century . |
| 2 | Dr Kallman has since been on another field trip to this area and is able to confirm the widespread range of this species throughout most of the small tributaries of the Rio Coatzacoalcos , and eastwards from Sarabia . |
| 3 | Reform of the rating system has long been on the political agenda . |
| 4 | Due to lack of time , contact with Churches has only been on an informal basis . |
| 5 | There has only been on eprevious report of the presence of epoxide hydrolase in normal colonic tissue . |
| 6 | The updated Accord has only been on sale in Britain for six weeks , but already Honda 's well ahead of its target of three and a half thousand sold by Christmas . |
| 7 | SINBAD has been cleaning the windows in Channel 4 's Brookside since 1984 , although he has only been on a regular contract for the last two years . |
| 8 | Robert Ludlum 's The Road to Omaha ( Grafton ) is an out-of-the-norm one and he will be in the UK to promote ; and Ruth Rendell 's Kissing the Gunner 's Daughter ( Arrow ) has just been on television and is wonderful . |
| 9 | Horne has already been on loan at Middlesbrough and Stoke this season . |
| 10 | Lindsay McKeown has already been on asking for her phone number . |
| 11 | She has already been on holiday to Portugal and is looking forward to moving to Cambridge to be near her daughters and grandchildren . |
| 12 | This , too , has been a frequent component of the instruction , though the emphasis has generally been on the retrieval of information from the stock , with the organization and communication of this information for effective learning left in the background . |
| 13 | ‘ The engine has always been on schedule , our engineers just started talking about it too soon . |
| 14 | Although the main emphasis in Jewish eschatology has always been on the fate of the nation , the doctrine of personal immortality ( which originated with Zarathustra 's passionate belief in the justice of God ) seems to have been adopted by the Jews during or after their Babylonian exile . |
| 15 | The emphasis has always been on producing verifiable statements of income and expenditure , balance sheets and , latterly , cash flows . |
| 16 | Life has always been on a razor-edge of survival and it is surely important to understand those moments in the past when the organic world seemed closer than usual to obliteration . |
| 17 | But then he has always been on top of the situation . |
| 18 | Val Smith , 35 , who worked for the company for 19 years before she was sacked , said : ‘ Closure has always been on the cards . |
| 19 | On previous tasks he has usually been on the cordon ringing the incident that the EOD team has been involved with , and cursing them for taking so long . |
| 20 | Compared to the USA , where there is a long tradition of debate about general education ( Squires 1976 ; Gaff 1983 ) , the main influence of the concept of a liberal education in British higher education has probably been on the enactment of the curriculum — on the methods and styles of teaching , the role models and relationships involved , and the general learning ethos and environment . |
| 21 | But since the early 1980s , chilled fresh pasta has also been on the market , from large and small suppliers operating on both national and regional bases . |
| 22 | So on the royal dockyard there has been quite a number ah , of rumours circulating this conference this morning , there has also been on the television and the radio , statements by one Gordon . |
| 23 | Philson has also been on trial with Spurs and is interesting Rangers and Manchester United . |
| 24 | In the last few years , however , with the entry of European literary theory into British and American academic life , its prestige has definitely been on the wane . |
| 25 | He has recently been on location in Switzerland filming Richard Attenborough 's movie about the life of Charlie Chaplin . |
| 26 | Marriage has certainly been on the agenda but as neither of us feel compelled to get wed on either moral or religious grounds , we simply have n't got round to it . |
| 27 | It is significant that the union which represents the employed workers of Cartón has never been on strike . |
| 28 | And Audrey has never been on the stage , or left her husband , or made a false move in public in any direction . " |
| 29 | The price is not reduced , the property has never been on the market before . |
| 30 | An opening example : If the price is advertised as being reduced and yet the house has never been on the market before , then it clearly can not have been reduced . |