Example sentences of "been [verb] on [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we have seen , the prestigious ultra-Rightist politician , José Calvo Sotelo , had been assassinated on 13 July . |
| 2 | Laporte ( speciality chemicals ) has incorporated a restated group p&l account plus notes in its interim report for the six months ended 3 July 1992 , on the basis that the Interox restructuring had been completed on 1 January 1992 . |
| 3 | In the indictment , however , the sale was said to have been made on 7 December 1988 , and the purchaser was identified as Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi . |
| 4 | It had been written on 8 June , and he said quite clearly that it would be his last ‘ until I see you again ’ . |
| 5 | This was presumably the reply given to the representative of HQ Army Group E whom Gen Schmidt-Richberg had been instructed on 13 May to send back to HQ 5 Corps at 1400 hrs the following day . |
| 6 | Until the fourth century , moreover , Jesus 's birthday had been celebrated on 6 January . |
| 7 | The machine had been supplied on 7 July 1955 and the accident had happened on 9 August 1956 , but the manufacturers were not convened in the action until 25 March 1959 . |
| 8 | The first amphibious raid — three officers landing between Boulogne and Etaples — had been mounted on 2–3 June by MIR with informal contacts in the Royal Navy , who provided a trawler . |
| 9 | Had the German attack been mounted on 12 February , as planned , the French , caught as it were in transit — for though now aware of the impending peril they were only beginning to bring up reinforcements — must have been overcome in a total and horrible manner . |
| 10 | The new Software Performance Report ( SPR ) has been based on another SPR identifier which does not exist . |
| 11 | As my son had been born on 5 March of that year , we talked at first about children , and he observed somewhat wistfully that the experience of having children must , despite all its responsibilities , be a unique sort of pleasure . |
| 12 | Fate has dealt harshly with W. She is now aged 16 , having been born on 31 March 1976 . |
| 13 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. J. is 16 months old , having been born on 22 January 1991 . |
| 14 | The debate on ‘ Schema 13 ’ had been interrupted on 6 November to allow Pope Paul to make an appearance in the Council Hall . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , life membership of the Irish Ladies Hockey Union has been conferred on two Ulster women , Professor Florence McKeown and Sheila Hennessy . |
| 16 | As the work was being reorganized to promote the war effort , I was to be given a National Service driving licence and other facilities — ; Conscription having been introduced on 27 April , this seemed the ideal transitional job to undertake pending the call-up . |
| 17 | First George Escolmbe , an Oxford graduate , had been appointed on 14th September 1691 , and then on 20th January 1693 the Goldsmiths " unanimously agreed that William Dickens shall be appointed schoolmaster of the said town in the room of Timothy Dobson " . |
| 18 | The election results had been announced on 6 March . |
| 19 | The four persons against whom the murder charges had been announced on 6th January 1973 had likewise been travelling in a motor car in which an unlicensed pistol had been found . |
| 20 | She died in her sleep at Nyack Hospital , north of New York , where she had been admitted on 9 March suffering from congestive heart failure . |
| 21 | If the Young Pretender had marched into England directly after Prestonpans , which had been fought on 21 September , he would have found a country ill-prepared to resist him , but many of his followers were reluctant to cross the Border . |
| 22 | This led Tolstoy ( in the minister and the massacres ) to the misconception that a subsequent instruction concerning the definition of a Soviet citizen had been issued on 6 May . |
| 23 | On 28 January 1992 District Judge Harris sitting in the Liverpool County Court granted the debtor 's application to set aside a statutory demand dated 15 August 1991 which had been served on the debtor on 21 August 1991 by the creditors , Marshalls , a firm of solicitors , in respect of their unpaid bill of 31 July 1991 , and dismissed the bankruptcy petition founded on that demand , which had been issued on 20 September 1991 , on the basis that the service of the statutory demand had contravened section 69(1) of the Solicitors Act 1974 . |
| 24 | Although the final war bulletin had been signed on 1 April 1939 , Franco did not enter the capital until 18 May , which was Ascension Day that year . |
| 25 | When the Sutton route was replaced by trolleybuses , the remainder joined them at Brixton in December 1935 , but the contract with Cohens for their scrapping had already been signed on 12 October . |
| 26 | Rufus had been killed on 2 August , whether by conspiracy or accident will never be resolved . |
| 27 | Private George Trumper had been killed on 2 November 1917 at Passchendaele , the letter had informed him : bravely , while charging the enemy lines at Polygon Wood . |
| 28 | Twenty-one Serbian villagers were reported to have been killed on 22 August by Croatian security forces carrying out house-to-house searches in the villages of Kinjacka , Cakle and Trnjani for insurgents believed to have fired mortars at the town of Sisak . |
| 29 | The appellant was Michael Thomas Bromell who had been convicted on 16 October 1987 at Warwick Crown Court of unlawful wounding and had been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment . |
| 30 | His encyclical Mystici Corporis had been published on 29 June 1943 ; in other words , only three months before Divino Afflante Spiritu . |