Example sentences of "been [verb] on [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Impressive translations have been made on such a basis , though usually by poets . |
| 2 | I said I had no objections , but I would have to ask , you know , the committee if they had because she 's not a member as such , but obviously has been going on all the year . |
| 3 | The shields of his men broke bows against the shields of his enemies , and the shouting that had been going on all the time rose to a shattering yell . |
| 4 | Torture of political detainees in Mauritania has been routine since 1986 , but it has never before been used on such a scale . |
| 5 | ‘ 37(1) Any notice , demand or order against which an appeal might be brought to a county court under this Part of this Act shall , if no such appeal is brought , become operative on the expiration of 21 days from the date of the service of the notice , demand or order , and shall be final and conclusive as to any matters which could have been raised on such an appeal , and any such notice , demand or order against which an appeal is brought shall , if and so far as it is confirmed by a county court judge , or the Court of Appeal , become operative as from the date of the final determination of the appeal . |
| 6 | As soon as the area had been measured and surveyed , the work of cutting the new streets through the old teeming and tortuous maze of the centre had never before been attempted on such a scale , though Christopher Wren had made such a plan for 17th-century London . |
| 7 | It was sad that this feeling of desire and affection — so alien to him — had been wasted on such a creature . |
| 8 | Ian 's temperament is something he is working on and we 've been working on all the time , but he just seems to be getting maximum publicity at the moment . ’ |
| 9 | Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause . |