Example sentences of "have been [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd 've been lying on Spanish beaches with her eyes tight shut knowing that every Spanish boy who passed would fancy her . |
| 2 | The University 's approach to financial planning ( as has been explained on previous occasions ) is essentially conservative , in that its systems are aimed at forecasting what funds will be available during the planning period and deciding how best to apply them to the academic priorities already identified . |
| 3 | The Upton park and ride has been built on zoo-owned ground at a cost of £1m and will eventually have 750 spaces . |
| 4 | This is the highest point of the Floriade , while the lowest is some 4.5m below sea level because the whole festival has been built on reclaimed land . |
| 5 | It has been stated on high authority that article 10 is in effect the same as the English common law . |
| 6 | The first limb is universally accepted as legitimate ; the second , though having the merit of expanding the scope of the Convention , has been criticized on various grounds . |
| 7 | The allocation of structural funds in southern Europe has been criticized on numerous occasions as causing environmental damage [ see EDs 56 ; 70 ] . |
| 8 | Some of his biology is not too sound ; his statement that the gulls of the northern hemisphere may be exceptional — ‘ In the majority of species such gradual variation is not seen , and all the members are equally interfertile ’ — seems based on a plentiful lack of knowledge of the work that has been done on geographical variation in many groups of animals , including birds . |
| 9 | It has been extensively investigated for large mammals ( Brain , 1958 , 1974 , 1981 ; Voorhies , 1969 ; Sutcliff , 1970 ; Behrensmeyer , 1975 ; Klein , 1975 ; Hill , 1975 ; Shipman , 1977 , 1983a ; Behrensmeyer & Hill , 1980 ; Binford , 1981 ) , but little work has been done on small mammals . |
| 10 | Extensive numerical work has been done on turbulent flows . |
| 11 | ‘ I believe the importance of genetic influences has been diminished in the amount of work that has been done on environmental influences . |
| 12 | Little sociological work has been done on Scottish agriculture ; hardly any of it on large-scale capitalist agriculture which would permit comparisons with English , Canadian and American investigations . |
| 13 | What is surprising is that so few feminist researchers in the sociology of education have chosen to look at higher education , when so much work has been done on secondary education and , to a lesser extent , on primary education . |
| 14 | Whilst in the past some reliance has been placed on low melting point plastics and the thermal shock effects on asbestos cement sheeting to provide a degree of ventilation , consequential to a fire , experience indicates that such faith can be misplaced . |
| 15 | Particular emphasis has been placed on supervisory skills , multi-tasking and accreditation of competence , as well as safety and safety awareness training and graduate placement schemes . |
| 16 | But how far have the changes in child care law embodied in the Children Act 1989 , with its focus on the paramountcy of the child 's welfare ( as a means to the child 's better protection ) , and the increasing emphasis which has been placed on parental responsibility rather than rights by the courts in recent years , been mirrored by changes in the balance of power between parent , child and state in education ? |
| 17 | In recent years , a great deal of emphasis has been placed on technological progress as a cause of structural unemployment . |
| 18 | Emphasis has been placed on increasing income inequalities as a means of boosting incentives for more work effort on an individual and corporate level . |
| 19 | In this way the study diverges from the usual tradition of elite studies where emphasis has been placed on ideological response or constituency service as the key to understanding the adoption of attitudes in such an elite . |
| 20 | The corollary of this is the increasing emphasis that has been placed on urban policies , such as Inner-City Partnerships and Enterprise Zones . |
| 21 | Emphasis has been placed on clinical aspects of disease , although a brief account of the causative organism and the relevant pathology is also given . |
| 22 | Emphasis has been placed on clinical aspects of disease , although a brief account of the causative organism and the relevant pathology is also given . |
| 23 | A great deal of progress has been made on equal rights . |
| 24 | The decision has been made on financial conditions and not to meet the needs of the team . |
| 25 | Active flight is used by many animals to escape predators , and a particularly elegant study has been made on noctuid moths by Roeder . |
| 26 | It has also been suggested that several of these pagus centres were later promoted to the rank of civitas capitals in their own right ; examples for which a case has been made on epigraphic grounds in Britain include Carlisle , Ilchester and Water Newton . |
| 27 | My Lords there is no point in the Government denying that there is such a danger , pressure of precisely this character has been applied on chief officers of police outside our own shores . |
| 28 | Unlike the TROG and the NSST , the TACL has been standardised on British children and therefore age-based comparisons are likely to be much more useful for this group . |
| 29 | And has been imposed on old people of er Edinburgh and er . |
| 30 | Zipper , a gay sex shop in North London , has a licence but has been raided on numerous occasions by the Obscene Publications Squad . |