Example sentences of "been on " in BNC.

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1 But where other churches have owned their own schools , as does the Church of Ireland in the South , a similar position has been adopted , though the reasons for the position have been on different grounds .
2 But since the early 1980s , chilled fresh pasta has also been on the market , from large and small suppliers operating on both national and regional bases .
3 What if it had originally been on one of the other cakes ?
4 there has been hardly any research on the police compared with the large output of critical scholarship on industry , commerce , the civil service , the health service and education … what little direct research there has been on the police has scarcely begun to ask such fundamental questions as what is the police force and what is it doing .
5 With the public appropriation of certain categories of property , however , the police have been on more certain ground , for the status attributed to the ‘ capture of the thief ’ has remained fairly constant , at least since the police were created as a public body .
6 It had been on loud all evening , and now it was the early hours of the morning .
7 I should have been on my guard .
8 Previous issues from November 1990 to the last edition show that the major features have been on Gabby and Steffi , Zvereva and Martina and Monica , Capriati and Monica , Anke , Jana Novotna and Arantxa respectively , evidence of a fair and even representation of all women players by Tennis World .
9 ‘ I 've not been on the moon , ’ he added , without any irony , simply as a statement of fact .
10 And why should any criminal have co-operated in this process of falsification unless an inducement had been on offer ?
11 ‘ It wo n't have been on a weighing machine since it left the village where it was grown . ’
12 Since the agreement to let the original refugees out had been on a once-only basis , it was not clear what was going to happen to yesterday 's 1,000-plus new arrivals in Prague .
13 ‘ Think how long BBC2 and Channel 4 have been on the air and they still have barely 10 per cent of the British audience .
14 The rest has been on average just over one gramme .
15 Problems with short weights are being tackled and if fish has been on the market overnight , the person buying it is aware .
16 ‘ There is a need for fish that has been on the market a couple of days .
17 But , when asked in 1947 to replace an old dirty power station that had been on the site since 1891 , he soon forgot such idealism and , like any architect , was glad to have the job .
18 The trouble is that since Chilcott 's dismissal for punching , players in the county have been on their best behaviour .
19 As workmen moved in to put up fencing yesterday , more demonstrators joined a small group of protesters who had been on a 24-hour vigil at the site .
20 I 've been on automatic pilot for 25 years .
21 A couple of bands were hired several months ago to jolly up the celebrations , whose main participants appeared to be trade unionists who had been on free holidays to one of the last proletarian paradises .
22 The shot that came back off Shilton 's bar in the last minute in Chorzow — a couple of inches lower , and England might have been on their way out of the World Cup — was a symbolic warning .
23 14 October , 1969 TONY BENN records in his diary : ‘ In the evening Caroline and I went to Number 10 for a dinner for the American astronauts , the first three men to have been on the moon .
24 At the time , the hobby had been on the wane for years .
25 My last bath had been on the evening of 4th June ; it was now 17th July .
26 I know for sure if he had n't been on the scene and it was only Colonel Vaughan and myself , I would most likely have said .
27 As I looked at the faces marching past with a smart eyes right , I could n't help thinking of those who would have liked to have been on this parade ; those still manning the trenches , and all those buried in a shallow grave in the orchards around the village .
28 There was no volte-face here as there had been on religion .
29 Since 1914 millions of Russians had been on the move — four to five million away from the advancing armies of the Central Powers ; at least twelve million fleeing into exile during and after the Revolution ; the largest land army in the world manoeuvring , dying , and deserting from the longest front-line in history — to give the major examples alone , with very approximate numbers .
30 New methods will come , no doubt , with the fruition of that research which the Home Secretary has urged and supported ; but we can not even claim to be using existing methods , when 7,550 prisoners are sleeping tonight three in a cell , and when policies which , but for the war , would have been on the statute book in 1939 , and have already been on the statute book for half a generation , have hardly begun to be carried into effect for lack of premises .
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