Example sentences of "been [verb] on [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | Two main kinds of European amber have been distinguished on chemical grounds . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Emphasis has been placed on clinical aspects of disease , although a brief account of the causative organism and the relevant pathology is also given . |
| 6 | Emphasis has been placed on clinical aspects of disease , although a brief account of the causative organism and the relevant pathology is also given . |
| 7 | The corollary of this is the increasing emphasis that has been placed on urban policies , such as Inner-City Partnerships and Enterprise Zones . |
| 8 | Stone 's operations in the US have also been criticized on environmental grounds . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | The allocation of structural funds in southern Europe has been criticized on numerous occasions as causing environmental damage [ see EDs 56 ; 70 ] . |
| 12 | Key settlements have also been criticized on social grounds , a point that will be elaborated in the next section . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And actually have been to support on many occasions in her constituency . |
| 15 | By 1723 , ninety-nine cottages had been erected on small pieces of land taken from the wastes . |
| 16 | John Mercer [ q.v. ] persuaded him to contact William Gossage [ q.v. ] , who had been experimenting on similar lines , and in 1859 Hargreaves joined Gossage 's soap works . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But clearly they have n't been consulted on preferred locations . |
| 20 | The current bases agreement , which had been revised on several occasions since its original signature in March 1947 , allowed the USA to use several military installations , including the huge facilities at Clark Field and Subic Bay , respectively the largest US Air Force and naval base outside North America . |
| 21 | Pruning should now have been completed on summer-fruiting raspberries : remove old canes and tie the new ones to their support wires . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Thus , where a lease has been assigned on several occasions a series , or chain , of indemnities will be built up . |
| 24 | Believe me , this is a major step forward , because carp that have been caught on floating baits before know exactly what to look for . |
| 25 | Even now trout are being taken from the upper layers of the water and on more than one evening fish have surprisingly been caught on dry flies . |
| 26 | The rules pertaining to the right to buy have been modified on several occasions . |
| 27 | National types of economic embeddedness have not been located on these dimensions , for at least two reasons . |
| 28 | Thus the major cyclic changes in Jurassic sedimentation ( and possibly even the changes of faunal and floral evolution ) have been blamed on eustatic changes in sea-level , and these in turn on epeirogenic movements on the ocean floor . |
| 29 | Shelling had been reported on both sides in early June and Azerbaijan claimed numerous Armenian attacks on Nakhichevan and the border regions . |
| 30 | It must have been rebuilt on many occasions , the present building and adjoining mill house dating from around 1726 . |