Example sentences of "been [noun] on " in BNC.

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1 There will have been progress on the creation of a single European market , especially in financial services .
2 ‘ Have there been attempts on your father 's life before ? ’
3 The story was that there had once been houses on each side of the road but a century or so ago , those on the west had been demolished to add to the parkland .
4 Throughout his career there have been calls on Prince by both the US and UK critical establishment to be a better role model , to make himself accountable to some kind of community , to address himself explicitly to the problems of the day .
5 But some would say the whole edifice — a major restructuring and new culture for SSDs — has been build on a shoe-string .
6 The donor is Mr James Campbell , of the Kilberry family who have long been experts on piobaireachd .
7 In addition to this more or less regular sort of investiture , there seem to have been investitures on a number of special occasions , both state occasions such as the accession of a sultan , a victory or the birth of a prince , where the right of investiture extended to a number of scholars , and also more personal occasions such as a scholar 's acceding to a high learned office , where the right of investiture was limited to the individual involved .
8 First , there have for some considerable time been proposals on the table for cycle facilities around Teviot Place .
9 Also at this scale has been research on precipitation areas which has shown that the vertical air motion responsible and the areas themselves are organized into a hierarchy according to the horizontal size .
10 No details of any other claims by 261 Squadron pilots are available , but their opponents are believed to have been aircraft on the 23° Gruppo C.T. , which had just returned from Libya .
11 ‘ In that case there 'd have been blood on the ground , ’ Melissa pointed out .
12 If he was shot sitting down there would probably have been blood on the back of his chair …
13 ‘ There must have been blood on their clothes or something . ’
14 Quoting Cypress chief T J Rodgers , Electronic Engineering Times adds that the Ross Technology subsidiary could be shuttered if Sun Microsystems Inc does n't pick up the 66MHz HyperSparc chip in a next-generation box — there has long been talk on Wall Street of a reorganisation of Ross .
15 There 's been talk on the council of turning it into a swimming pool , but they ca n't afford it .
16 With the exception of the computer industry , little effort seems to have been made to develop new industries ; instead there has been concentration on making our existing industries more efficient and competitive .
17 Those woundings had been steps on the path that brought her to Santa de Nogueira , she realized .
18 Maybe the thought of buying Gazza was the reason Wilko was n't to worried about letting old Batty go … maybe the negotiations have been gong on longer than we know … and maybe ( just maybe ) Wilko has the tape of Urquart in ‘ House of Cards ’ and will use it to save the Monarchy in return for the deportation of all French players with silly shirts ; - )
19 There has been work on imperfect monitoring in reputational models , Benabou and Laroque ( 1988 ) , Fudenberg and Levine ( 1988 , 1989 ) ; and there has also been work on models with a continuum of types , Milgrom and Roberts ( 1982 ) .
20 There has been work on imperfect monitoring in reputational models , Benabou and Laroque ( 1988 ) , Fudenberg and Levine ( 1988 , 1989 ) ; and there has also been work on models with a continuum of types , Milgrom and Roberts ( 1982 ) .
21 And I have been years on Bold injections and all the rest of it , and I know from experience you get , you deal with it , it does n't cure the disease but can you see you have a way of dealing with it , of coping with it , of helping yourself er c er do things and therefore you can
22 ‘ There has never been jealousy on my part that she has taken my mother 's place . ’
23 Attacks on adult women were featured in a sustained manner in the search stage in national newspapers only when there had been attacks on several women apparently by the same offender — for instance , a special rape squad was set up when a ‘ sex beast ’ was believed to be responsible for a series of attacks on at least twenty-three women .
24 There have also been attacks on the ‘ generalist ’ or ‘ all-rounder ’ in administration , combined with the argument that the civil service is too isolated , complacent and insulated from outside pressures .
25 There was nothing so dead as an old love , and what they had shared had only been desire on his part .
26 ‘ But we accept that any case of overcharging is one too many , and there has been failure on our part , ’ he said .
27 There have been excavations on other sites , but these have added further complications .
28 It could have been Adam on your mind , I suppose , but I 'm beginning to think that there 's a little more to it than that . ’
29 Neither man , however , is solely motivated by local concerns : both have been hawks on the deficit and would like to see Mr Clinton cut it more .
30 The accounts which local sign theorists have given of what might loosely be called the ‘ experience ’ of localisation have , in the main , been variations on three themes .
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