Example sentences of "have been [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had thought they were at least speaking to one another privately , but if Jim had really sworn an affidavit he must have been listening on another telephone . |
| 2 | I was for resolving this phenomenon into ship-wrecks , and supposing that they might have been flung on these coasts out of some unhappy vessels ; but this solution of mine is absolutely denied , from the frequency and regularity of the appearance of these seeds . " |
| 3 | I was for resolving this phenomenon into ship-wrecks , and supposing that they might have been flung on these coasts out of some unhappy vessels ; but this solution of mine is absolutely denied , from the frequency and regularity of the appearance of these seeds . " |
| 4 | The Secretary of State 's worries about the control of Soviet nuclear weapons , given the potential breakdown of the Soviet Union , would not then have been based on such mind-boggling perceived dangers . |
| 5 | It is not hard to imagine Nietzsche adding passages of this modest length in the final weeks , especially if he had continued to work on the " whole last part of the book during the summer ; any late additions would then have been based on that work . |
| 6 | To begin with , it would have been based on absolute desperation . |
| 7 | His pamphlet Nothing gained by overcrowding ! ( 1912 ) may have been based on questionable statistics , but the approach and general philosophy proved increasingly acceptable to informed opinion . |
| 8 | Some voices of the past may have been based on shaky techniques , or their use transgressed today 's views about musical taste , but many others still shatter the sense by their beauty , magnificence and sheer character in the vocalisation . |
| 9 | Over the same period similar and greater profits could have been gained on other securities . |
| 10 | However , 1 doubt whether anything more substantial will have been achieved on many units by that date . |
| 11 | Pruning should now have been completed on summer-fruiting raspberries : remove old canes and tie the new ones to their support wires . |
| 12 | ‘ We could all have been killed on this exercise . |
| 13 | However , there are situations in which the EEG may disclose lateralised phenomena which , because of their very nature , may not have been suspected on other grounds . |
| 14 | As a teenager , Goldberg was leader of the Berlin Philharmonic under Furtwängler in the 1920s ; in the 1970s he was still in fine form , and his recordings should surely have been re-released on this occasion . |
| 15 | It is little wonder , therefore , that during those parts of the year which were spent at Saint Cloud , Compiègne or Fontainebleau the emphasis should have been placed on greater informality . |
| 16 | The autofocus should have been over-ridden on these shots . |
| 17 | The frightening film of the American Airlines DC-10 from which an engine fell clear during take-off from Chicago must have been shown on more television screens than any other comparable occurrence , and so it goes on until we reach the most horrifying event involving the South Korean Boeing 747 which was deliberately shot down north of Japan by Soviet Russian fighters with the loss of 269 lives . |
| 18 | But before then The Battle of the Atlantic Suite will have been released on compact disc , depicting a Murmansk convoy in the dark days of the war . |
| 19 | He could have been walking on another planet The flat , moonlight illuminated landscape , interrupted by large and small pools of bright water seemed unreal . |
| 20 | Additionally , the fact that this part of the movement was written out by Leopold suggests that Mozart may have been working on another part of the symphony while his father was copying the part that already existed . |
| 21 | Because Edith now Edith was going away for some unknown reason , I do n't know , she must have been going on another holiday anyhow . |
| 22 | It must have been rebuilt on many occasions , the present building and adjoining mill house dating from around 1726 . |
| 23 | At least by the time that the friend heard the click it must have been settled on that occasion that the electron 's spin was " up " . |
| 24 | That five point four million could have been spent on front line social services , for example . |
| 25 | So why the population should have been growing on this scale I think is er a question that we ca n't answer very easily . |
| 26 | Of course that is not the case : we have not even reached the Committee stage , so the guillotine motion can not have been introduced on those grounds . |