Example sentences of "to have been [vb pp] on [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |