Example sentences of "been [adj] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kindly note that I have been specific on the daily to do list . |
| 2 | In the past , when warring factions had been rife on the island , families of breeding had automatically sent at least one son to train in the Halls of Valiance in the western region of Gleberune and , as a consequence , generous donations had showered into the Valiance coffers . |
| 3 | The allocation was decided at the highest level of government , and radio broadcasting had long been low on the list of priorities . |
| 4 | Tax reform had been low on the political agenda before 1965 , with the basic structure of taxes remaining unchanged for decades . |
| 5 | There is evidence that volatile materials have always been scarce on the Moon . |
| 6 | Instead it is because success has been dependent on the ability to win the argument on each individual placement with each head teacher that this investment , as part of the in-service programme , is worthwhile . |
| 7 | Slowly it sapped at the roots of the kind of justice which had been dependent on the judgement of God ; ordeal — in any case a last resort — grew rare ; though trial by battle continued as a privilege of the military classes ( in some places till the end of the middle ages ) , it too became somewhat of a curiosity . |
| 8 | The principles and practice of plan making , and the various ways in which government , both local and central , has intervened in environmental affairs , have always been dependent on the context of the time : political , institutional , social , economic and technological . |
| 9 | The DKP had long been dependent on the East German Socialist Unity Party of Germany ( SED — ultimately renamed the Party of Democratic Socialism ( PDS ) in February 1990 — see p. 37260 ) and had suffered as a result of the changes in East Germany ; the ending of financial support from the SED had led to a scaling down of operations . |
| 10 | To which I would answer , first , that the witness is not before the court and has not been cross-examined on the matter , and secondly that just because something 's a ‘ well-known fact ’ this does n't make it a well-known fact about me . |
| 11 | Apart from this industrial , political , and mob violence , however , there has been the ongoing pressure of the seemingly inexorably high level of ‘ ordinary ’ crime , the control of which has been high on the agenda for ten years . |
| 12 | Since the resurgence of the women 's movement in the early 1970s and its subsequent development into feminism ( less an activist social movement than a political body of thought and cultural practices ) , film , as Annette Kuhn and others have pointed out , has been high on the agenda of women working for social change . |
| 13 | But that would not explain why some of the sermons that have had the greatest impact on us have not necessarily been high on the performance scale . |
| 14 | ( The demand for universal male suffrage had always been high on the agenda of all the continental labour movements . ) |
| 15 | The launch of the NHS information management and technology strategy in December may not have been high on the agenda of most practising doctors . |
| 16 | The problem had been high on the agenda of an OPEC ministerial meeting held in Vienna in mid-March [ see p. 37335 ] , but both Kuwait and the UAE had refused to agree to production cuts . |
| 17 | There had been shore-foam on the beach yesterday . |
| 18 | It was checked against the prints of George Taylor , who had been early on the scene , but they did not match . |
| 19 | She had n't even been nervous on the first night , not in the way other people were nervous . |
| 20 | And then she 's been average on the last three or four months she 's been on eight stone . |
| 21 | Despite pleas from the Channel Tunnel companies the project was abandoned on January 20 1975 after some 300m of tunnel had been bored on the French side and 400m on the British . |
| 22 | Analysts had been bullish on the indicator ahead of the announcement , but in the event , the US Semiconductor Industry Association 's book-to-bill ratio for February fell to a still very healthy 1.18 , from 1.20 in January , the latter figure revised upwards from the 1.19 reported at the time . |
| 23 | The maximum ACT offset is limited to the amount of tax that would have been payable on the profits assuming they had been charged at the basic rate of tax ( s 239(2) ) . |
| 24 | On 16 October 1991 , after a hearing in chambers to consider wasted costs after the jury in a criminal trial had been discharged and a retrial ordered , Judge MacRae made an order against the appellant , H. , a barrister who had acted as defence counsel at the trial , disallowing ‘ such part of the brief fee which would otherwise have been payable on the initial trial as exceeds what would be the proper enhanced refresher for the retrial … ’ under the provisions of section 19A(1) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 , as inserted by section 111 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 . |
| 25 | Eventually , when this somewhat bizarre meeting ended , the judge made an order by which he purported to ‘ disallow such part of the brief fee which would otherwise have been payable on the [ partial ] trial as exceeds what would be the proper enhanced refresher for the retrial . ’ |
| 26 | The idea may then be for the surviving spouse to give the property ( which she took under the deed of variation ) to the children and make a potentially exempt transfer under IHTA 1984 , s3A : provided she survives seven years no inheritance tax will have been payable on the death or on the gift or indeed on her death by reference to the property which she gave to the children . |
| 27 | In that case he refused to hold that directors had been negligent on the ground that he was satisfied that they had made ‘ a real exercise of discretion and judgment ’ . |
| 28 | Oh yes , and Springsteen was okay but had been sick on the stairs . |
| 29 | She 'd been sick on the floor . |
| 30 | She 'd been sick on the floor . |