Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Therefore , Labour will be back in strength in the next election , and in the meantime , will be tiny of the performance of the council which has been elected on this occasion . ’ |
| 2 | So erm can you tell us what proportion of the work erm had been completed before prices were fixed erm for those packages that have been an and also what proportion of the work has been completed on those packages yet to be priced . |
| 3 | Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't . |
| 4 | The debate has been characterised by deep-seated differences of opinion , but it has been recognised on both sides of the House that the British coal industry faces formidable challenges . |
| 5 | It has been taken for granted for a long time that criticism and the academy go naturally together , and a large pedagogic and publishing industry has been built on that assumption . |
| 6 | Much has been written on this , and it need not be repeated here . |
| 7 | Much has been written on this from a range of perspectives . |
| 8 | Indeed , the whole point of the local sign theory , as an alternative to the ‘ place pure and simple ’ account has been lost on some psychologists . |
| 9 | He has been bailed on several sureties and appears in court tomorrow . ’ |
| 10 | Further consideration is recommended on the subject of removing tax disadvantages that arise on disincorporation , a problem that has been highlighted on several previous occasions . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | This species has been recorded on both sides of the North Atlantic and from Arctic Seas ; in the east it has been recorded from the Kara Sea south to the Faeroe Channel and in the west from the Davis Strait south to off Maryland , with a bathymetric range of 50–2727 m . |
| 13 | We 've had fantastic support , as has been recorded on this programme many times before , and that is still growing . |
| 14 | Yet little systematic work has been done on such alternative formats , nor on the religious symbols employed by them . |
| 15 | There is , admittedly , a long tradition both in linguistics and in literary studies of analysing the works of individual writers , particularly literary writers , but relatively little work has been done on such areas of text studies as the conventions of non-literary writing within a community or the preferred patterns of organization in different types of discourse . |
| 16 | the formula assumes that at any er as as of the first of April , half the work has been done on all erm files then outstanding , we 've gone into this before , where er we think that that 's er er a correct statistical way of erm dealing with things , if therefore you cut the number of er files which are going in , then erm , er I take it if you 're cutting the number of stage two files which are being passed over , and that 's the area where you 're most fighting at er at time we hope , and it has a very , very considerable impact on workload for next year . |
| 17 | That the court can take such an initiative is well settled and indeed it has been done on several occasions in the past . |
| 18 | This has been done on these triangles . |
| 19 | We thank you for those in Exeter who have granted permission for the work that has been done on this church building , and for the help that has been given towards the planning of the new building . |
| 20 | Some work has been done on this topic in recent years , but this study will differ from previous approaches by linking the unemployment flows much more closely to the other flows in the labour market . |
| 21 | This system has been implemented on several super-computers , since it provides scope for instruction overlapping ( described in 8.2 ) . |
| 22 | His background has been catalogued on many occasions and trawled by the man himself with the single-mindedness which characterizes all his causes . |
| 23 | Sometimes we 're concerned as to whether N C V O is competing with its membership about what we do , and I know that a point has been raised on that , er , by somebody who I think is present today . |
| 24 | The first point which has been raised on this appeal is the use of the present tense in section 31(2) of the Children Act 1989 . |
| 25 | A start has been made on this process . |
| 26 | It is not always easy to separate hardware and software and this fact has been demonstrated on several occasions in the courts . |
| 27 | I mean , I think a lot of national organisations that are giving , I trust that are giving money to people actually do want to know that sort of detail about where the money is going , because , if I go through this , I mean , I would have to say that I should imagine that a very small percentage of the money that has been collected on these flag days will actually get back into Oxfordshire . |
| 28 | We now shall take up an issue that has been touched on several times before : power transformation of the scale of a variable in order to make its analysis easier . |
| 29 | A plastic teardrop has been sewn on each corner to match the chandeliers . |
| 30 | Mr. Speaker : I am sure that the Leader of the House has listened carefully and will have noted what has been said on this important matter . |