Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adv] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Baldwin 's unconventional move has generated immense interest , and he has been interviewed twice on Central Television and on radio , and has been profiled in his local newspaper . |
| 2 | Another casualty of this bombing raid was the Royal West of England School for the Deaf at Exeter , which at that time had seemed a safe haven , not only for the children of the area the school served , but also for the 52 children and staff of the Anerley School for the Deaf , London , who had been evacuated there on 14th September 1939 . |
| 3 | Phase I clinical trials have been carried out on healthy volunteers to evaluate the way the drug is absorbed and its potential toxicity . |
| 4 | He is blind to the independent studies that have been carried out on that programme , such as that by Professor Snower of Birkbeck college , which demonstrates clearly and beyond doubt how damaging those proposals would be to the creation of jobs in this country . |
| 5 | As a consequence the struggle for Palestine has been carried out on many levels , creating a complexity which even the participants have at times found difficult to follow . |
| 6 | Restoration work has been carried out on two towers in Surrey . |
| 7 | Species develop , it is argued , specific forms of innate behaviours and drives which are geared towards survival and reproduction and , while much of this work has been carried out on non-human species , it has indeed been applied directly to the human animal : Desmond Morris 's ‘ naked ape ’ . |
| 8 | Most of the research on learning has been carried out on unnatural behaviour patterns , in the laboratory , particularly in two species : rats and pigeons . |
| 9 | Further work has now been carried out on these Sections and this report contains proposals for the Control and Collection Sections to enable the recruitment process for Council staff to be carried out in good time . |
| 10 | Very little research has been carried out on domestic wares and it remains far from clear to what extent the domestic and funerary pottery production can be separated . |
| 11 | The truth is that Libya has been stiched up on several occasions since Libyan oil was nationalised in 1969 and Gaddafi refused to behave like the American client his predecessors used to be . |
| 12 | A prototype has been used successfully on human gall stones introduced into swine gall bladders . |
| 13 | He died in 1557 , and was buried in St Margaret 's churchyard on 9 August ; his first wife Ann had been interred there on 9 December 1552 , and he was survived by his second wife Ellen . |
| 14 | But the Fed 's timing may not have been based entirely on domestic considerations . |
| 15 | The environment is also a high priority for CAC and £2m ( 10 per cent of the project cost ) has been spent directly on environmental concerns with the installation of scrubbers and other cleaning techniques in the Pergascript plant . |
| 16 | The Mayor of Bedford for the time being was always to be an additional director and at the time of the meeting the Mayor was John Wing , who had been sworn in on 29th September 1793 , and served for one year , after which he remained as one of the aldermen . |
| 17 | The new sanctuary has been set up on dry prairie land south of Lac Leman . |
| 18 | Job shops have been set up on both sites , manned by trained staff . |
| 19 | Since the introduction of A levels , English , Welsh , and Northern Irish schools , unlike schools in Scotland , Europe , or America , have expected pupils to study at most three examinable subjects in their years in the sixth form , these three being generally either all arts or all science subjects , though mathematics has been found commonly on either side of the divide . |
| 20 | I 'd been brought up on heroic stories |
| 21 | A spokesman said the fur ban had been introduced purely on commercial grounds . |
| 22 | Not only was the Institute 's working party on small company audits unrepresentative ( seven of its eight members were in practice ) , but the subsequent circulation of and debate on the consultation paper has been concentrated mainly on practising members . |
| 23 | Simple restitution by way of returning expropriated lands and property had been ruled out on practical grounds , and instead claimants would receive compensation in the form of vouchers to be used to buy privatized state property ( the scheme was designed to limit the government 's cash liability ) . |
| 24 | More than 200 tonnes of the chemicals have been sprayed annually on non-crop land by British Rail and local authorities . |
| 25 | These final examples of persistent facies brings us right up against the obvious explanation of a climatic control , and certainly strong arguments have been put forward on climatic grounds to explain some of the carbonate distributions . |
| 26 | I find that is the situation that I 've tried to er , guard against with the budget that we 've been put in on this occasion , and I hope that answers er , er , Mr but er , I 'll answer any other questions that are put up . |
| 27 | This arrangement , which appears to have much to recommend it in professional terms as well as adding to the attraction of professional posts for recruiting purposes , has not been taken up on any scale by public libraries . |
| 28 | However , the conflict between modern farming practice and environmental conservation is by no means an irreconcilable one and , although entrenched positions have been taken up on both sides , there are now a few signs of a more sophisticated awareness of the Problems involved and a more constructive desire on the part of both farming organizations and the environmental lobby to overcome them . |
| 29 | It contained an acknowledgment that its decision to close Village school had been taken primarily on financial grounds . |
| 30 | Mitcham Road depôt in Aurelia Road , West Croydon , remained closed and empty , the connecting curve , which joined the main road towards Mitcham had been taken out on 8 December 1935 . |