Example sentences of "been [verb] on this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past much ink has been spilt on this problem , but little progress made . |
| 2 | The first question which has been considered on this appeal is whether the justices were right in thinking that they had power in an appropriate case to order that there should be no contact between the mother and child under section 34(2) of the Act of 1989 . |
| 3 | And , though the cats have not been polled on this point , I suspect they would share human mistrust of the new and unknown when approached with it by advertising researchers . |
| 4 | It has never been equalled on this scale . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Yet whole socio-cultural theories , of a kind , have been built on this kind of argument . |
| 8 | ‘ Starter schemes ’ or ‘ shell-housing ’ , ready plastered-out but not finished , have often been built on this basis , for example in Ribble Valley District , some Devon districts and in Suffolk Coastal District . |
| 9 | We think that such a duty is imposed by law ; and on consideration of the Statute of Elizabeth , l and of the cases which have been decided on this subject , we are all of the opinion that a party can not maintain an action for compensation for loss of time in attending a trial as a witness . |
| 10 | Tax reform had been a major campaign commitment in 1976 , but four years later very little progress had been made on this matter . |
| 11 | A start has been made on this process . |
| 12 | But no great impact had been made on this side of the Channel . |
| 13 | Complete books have been written on this subject which will give much more information about when a condition is likely to be serious or not . |
| 14 | Complete books have been written on this subject which will give much more information about when a condition is likely to be serious or not . |
| 15 | Volumes have been written on this subject but I will offer a succinct aim that sums up , for me , the essence of good practice : |
| 16 | A great deal has already been written on this field ( see Christian Communication : An Annotated Bibliography , Westport , Conn. , Greenwood Press , 1989 , 387pp ) , and several organising frameworks for this study have been developed , partly through WACC 's impulses in the mid-1980s . |
| 17 | The condition , which is relatively common in continental Europe , has not been seen on this scale in the UK since the 1920s . |
| 18 | ‘ He had obviously been brooding on this incident some years back , ’ said Mr Denny . |
| 19 | This mass migration has been going on this country since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution , and continues today with the establishment of the new towns , the most recent of which is Milton Keynes , the focus of the study . |
| 20 | So why the population should have been growing on this scale I think is er a question that we ca n't answer very easily . |
| 21 | These conclusions have been challenged on this appeal . |
| 22 | Some definitions of style have been based on this assumption . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Returning through Bologna he passed various tests for membership of the Accademia Filarmonica and was awarded a diploma , the conditions of entry , stipulating that members must be over the age of 20 , having been waived on this occasion . |
| 25 | The headmaster paused , reminding himself of his conclusion that the privilege of educating the sons of the royal house had been conferred on this school because it was uniquely endowed with a philosophy which informed all its actions and made it equal to the task . |
| 26 | Much Third World interest has been focused on this part of the convention , giving it a disproportionate importance as the first evidence of a new international economic order . |
| 27 | ‘ My mind has n't always been focused on this operation as fully as it should have been . ’ |
| 28 | Statham , 1929 : some doubt has been cast on this principle by a later decision but it would almost certainly still apply ) . |
| 29 | Doubts have been cast on this interpretation , but insufficient evidence is available to reassess it in terms of the more typical two-phase sequence . |
| 30 | Anyway erm we 've been hearing on this programme recently of course that er people are against hunting against fishing er they say it 's cruel . |