Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 70 per cent of adult Albanians have been dismissed on ethnic grounds from jobs as various as toilet cleaners , museum curators and power plant directors . |
| 2 | His background has been catalogued on many occasions and trawled by the man himself with the single-mindedness which characterizes all his causes . |
| 3 | This report was criticised because of the small number of patients studied and because patients had not been stabilised on each insulin before acute hypoglycaemia was induced . |
| 4 | Two main kinds of European amber have been distinguished on chemical grounds . |
| 5 | Extensive stretches of the walls of his nave have been traced on each side of the existing nave , although we do not yet know if it had an aisle along each flank . |
| 6 | As we have seen , the prestigious ultra-Rightist politician , José Calvo Sotelo , had been assassinated on 13 July . |
| 7 | Much work has been undertaken on this aircraft and it has clearly got into the blood of those at PE , so much so that should the SAAF Museum at Swartkop , near Pretoria , ever wish to move there , they would find a fearsome fight on their hands ! |
| 8 | Emphasis has been placed on increasing income inequalities as a means of boosting incentives for more work effort on an individual and corporate level . |
| 9 | Whilst in the past some reliance has been placed on low melting point plastics and the thermal shock effects on asbestos cement sheeting to provide a degree of ventilation , consequential to a fire , experience indicates that such faith can be misplaced . |
| 10 | In recent years , a great deal of emphasis has been placed on technological progress as a cause of structural unemployment . |
| 11 | Particular emphasis has been placed on supervisory skills , multi-tasking and accreditation of competence , as well as safety and safety awareness training and graduate placement schemes . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But how far have the changes in child care law embodied in the Children Act 1989 , with its focus on the paramountcy of the child 's welfare ( as a means to the child 's better protection ) , and the increasing emphasis which has been placed on parental responsibility rather than rights by the courts in recent years , been mirrored by changes in the balance of power between parent , child and state in education ? |
| 14 | In this way the study diverges from the usual tradition of elite studies where emphasis has been placed on ideological response or constituency service as the key to understanding the adoption of attitudes in such an elite . |
| 15 | Emphasis has been placed on clinical aspects of disease , although a brief account of the causative organism and the relevant pathology is also given . |
| 16 | Emphasis has been placed on clinical aspects of disease , although a brief account of the causative organism and the relevant pathology is also given . |
| 17 | The corollary of this is the increasing emphasis that has been placed on urban policies , such as Inner-City Partnerships and Enterprise Zones . |
| 18 | Even if cubs had been reared on human flesh , they did not persist in man-eating once they had grown up . |
| 19 | Stone 's operations in the US have also been criticized on environmental grounds . |
| 20 | The first limb is universally accepted as legitimate ; the second , though having the merit of expanding the scope of the Convention , has been criticized on various grounds . |
| 21 | However their interpretation has been criticized on several counts which show that ‘ the family-firm analogy is misleading and generally overworked ; its character is usually symbolic or ideological rather than descriptive ’ ( Fruin 1980 p.432 ) . |
| 22 | The allocation of structural funds in southern Europe has been criticized on numerous occasions as causing environmental damage [ see EDs 56 ; 70 ] . |
| 23 | Key settlements have also been criticized on social grounds , a point that will be elaborated in the next section . |
| 24 | The University 's approach to financial planning ( as has been explained on previous occasions ) is essentially conservative , in that its systems are aimed at forecasting what funds will be available during the planning period and deciding how best to apply them to the academic priorities already identified . |
| 25 | If directions have already been given on pre-trial review , this appointment is not needed . |
| 26 | By 1723 , ninety-nine cottages had been erected on small pieces of land taken from the wastes . |
| 27 | They also stated that the monuments and war graves " dedicated to the victims of war and tyranny which have been erected on German soil will be respected and will enjoy the protection of German law " , and that in the united Germany " the free democratic basic order will be protected by the constitution … |
| 28 | has been indicted on twelve counts of racketeering , and offering bribes to elected officials to advance the interests of his clients , one of whom was G Tec . |
| 29 | In a further development concerning the scandal , it was announced by the authorities on Dec. 22 that no further indictments would be filed either against Kanemaru — who had already been indicted on minor charges — or against any of the other Diet members implicated in the receipt of Sagawa Kyubin funds . |
| 30 | She had been indicted on numerous corruption charges since her return to the Philippines , as the government continued to attempt to recover some of the millions of dollars which she and her husband allegedly looted from the country during their years in power . |