Example sentences of "to have been [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite his chosen role as a small-town shopkeeper he seemed to have been accepted on equal terms by talented cosmopolitans … |
| 2 | Twenty-one Serbian villagers were reported to have been killed on 22 August by Croatian security forces carrying out house-to-house searches in the villages of Kinjacka , Cakle and Trnjani for insurgents believed to have fired mortars at the town of Sisak . |
| 3 | Yet when so much of the writing seems to have been done on automatic pilot , with dozens of sequential passages of unashamed banality — even at the opening of the overture — this is a score that demands some injection whether of fire or persuasiveness in the performers , to make one forget the musical flaws . |
| 4 | Yet when so much of the writing seems to have been done on automatic pilot , with dozens of sequential passages of unashamed banality — even at the opening of the overture — this is a score that demands some injection whether of fire or persuasiveness in the performers , to make one forget the musi cal flaws . |
| 5 | In the UK little work of any description seems to have been done on human behaviour in the aftermath of releases of hazardous substances , nor is much available on public attitudes to emergency planning . |
| 6 | Civilization , like the city of Venice , seems to have been built on unprepossessing ground . |
| 7 | This objection could be countered by examples of churches known to have been built on pagan sites , such as Cascob , Radnorshire and Fimber , East Yorkshire , which were actually built on tumuli . |
| 8 | It seems to have been based on real understanding , but little real intimacy . |
| 9 | Before rising population and inflating prices for necessaries began to increase the burden on rate-payers from the last third of the century , the relief of the village and small-town poor seems to have been based on humane assessment of need and sufficient relief . |
| 10 | These two arms shipments to Iran resulted in the much publicised release of David Jacobsen to Terry Waite on 2 November 1986 which at the time was said to have been made on humanitarian grounds following Waite 's appeal to the Iranians . |
| 11 | In the indictment , however , the sale was said to have been made on 7 December 1988 , and the purchaser was identified as Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi . |
| 12 | During these early talks , progress appeared to have been made on Unionist demands ( i ) that the British government should seriously consider the possibility of an alternative to the Anglo-Irish Agrement ; ( ii ) that the Anglo-Irish secretariat based near Belfast should be suspended before devolution talks began ; and ( iii ) that the normal summer gap between meetings of the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference [ see below ] could be defined in advance and used as an opportunity to open formal negotiations . |
| 13 | Her father always swore while he drank the stuff , claiming to have been raised on real coffee before the CAC stopped exporting from Nicaragua , but she never understood his complaints . |
| 14 | When fast scoring is discussed , there is one name which comes up more often than any other , and which should , in fairness , have been the first to have been entered on this teamsheet. it has been estimated that Gilbert Jessop — ‘ The Croucher ’ — made his runs at an average rate of 80 per hour , a phenomenal statistic . |
| 15 | A LARGE and sumptuous Byzantine church , recently discovered in Istanbul , seems to have been modelled on biblical descriptions of the temple of Solomon at Jerusalem . |
| 16 | Since then Cyrano is estimated to have been put on more times than any other French play and to have been General de Gaulle 's favourite theatrical work . |
| 17 | Since October 1982 more than 800 protesters are reported to have been arrested on false charges and many have been tortured , according to Survival International . |
| 18 | The Stasi headquarters in Berlin were reoccupied on Sept. 4 by New Forum supporters demanding that individuals be given access to their files ( which were said to have been held on 4,000,000 East Germans and 2,000,000 West Germans ) . |