Example sentences of "have been [prep] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | For last three years the opinion survey has been on line on PROFS . |
| 2 | Since her trial a year ago , which led to a six-year jail sentence , Winnie Mandela has been at liberty on bail , pending an appeal . |
| 3 | Father Pat Buckley , from Larne in Northern Ireland , has been to Scotland on three occasions to tie the knot for couples whom the church refuses to marry because one or both have been divorced . |
| 4 | He has been to Taiwan on two or three occasions and it was his idea that we come to New Zealand and develop our forward play ’ , said Lin . |
| 5 | Here we have an undoubted theoretical cause , and also the undoubted fact that this cause has been in operation on a massive scale . |
| 6 | The most significant increase , however , has been in registrations on those modules from fields classified as ‘ applied ’ , i.e. those on which the degree student can also achieve professional recognition . |
| 7 | " I feel worn out , much more than I would if I 'd been for miles on the moor . |
| 8 | And he was telling , you know erm it was the er Christmas thing , he was t saying he 'd been to France on a cheap ticket had n't he ? |
| 9 | He 'd been to Wewelsburg on several occasions , had even inspected the castle 's plans at SD headquarters , so knew it well . |
| 10 | I had been to London on comparatively few occasions before coming to Bletchley , and it was still to me a place of awe and wonder . |
| 11 | Our original plan had been to film on Lake Karakul , 50 miles to the north-west . |
| 12 | She had been to Italy on a coach tour , and the Italian men could n't control themselves she said . |
| 13 | Wheeler said he had been a member of the force for twelve and a half years and had been on duty on the Docks since last August . |
| 14 | The death of a remand prisoner was confirmed on April 3 and on April 5 a prison officer who had been on duty on April 1 died of a heart attack . |
| 15 | He said Allitt had been on duty on 24 occasions when children suffered collapses on the ward . |
| 16 | With a bloody chin and an empty stomach , Manville had left his apartment already fuming , only to discover that vandals had been at work on his car during the night . |
| 17 | He had been at sea on the Chilean coast most of his life , running cargoes between the isolated ports of the southern waterways , a marvellous-looking old man , big gnarled hands warped with rheumatism and a long wrinkled face , little lines running out from his eyes , which were slitted as though he were permanently peering out into fog . |
| 18 | They had been at supper on that far-distant evening when Mr Curdle , white with panic , had drummed madly on the glass of the hall door . |
| 19 | Sime had been in court on the day of his death and had displayed no anxiety or stress . |
| 20 | The LFS shows that a quarter of all persons who had been unemployed 12 months before the survey , but who were in work on the survey date , had temporary jobs , compared with just over three per cent who had been in work on both dates . |
| 21 | In the 23 hours we had been in transit on a scheduled 32-hour flight from London Heathrow , we had become fairly observant . |
| 22 | Now fantastic rumours started to circulate to the effect that the Virgin of Fatima might appear again — her last apparition had been in Portugal on 13 October 1927 . |
| 23 | I 've been to Newark on a Friday night and stood in a line with others on a night shift at a w wooden hut in the yard whilst a clerk from the pay office came to meet us , the day shift finishing at er , say five o'clock . |
| 24 | I 've been in hurricanes on the Florida Keys and there 's plenty of time to flirt around with fear . |
| 25 | Section four four onwards talks about erm the affecting the environmental and makes a point that will be we as officers have been with people on this and that is quite unusual er at this stage of the process . |
| 26 | The Paras have been jumping into one of the dropping zones on Salisbury Plain since first light , so the Scouts have been on standby on the DZ in case there should be any casualties . |
| 27 | Yet just at that moment — one occasionally suspects that the mythmakers have been at work on the story — the lookout sighted sails on the western horizon . |
| 28 | No one has ever accurately defined the Indo-Pakistan border at the head of the Siachen glacier , and since 1984 troops from both sides have been at war on the high passes of this inhospitable land . |
| 29 | ‘ Others of our group have been in court on trespass before and the Invermoriston address has been accepted . ’ |
| 30 | Nigel said , ‘ My whistles have been in use on a number of locomotives on different railways . |