Example sentences of "been [adj] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Albert Spanswick had been right on that and the hard men of his committee quite wrong . |
| 2 | ‘ There had been a good relationship on the whole between the management and myself and it has been supportive on both sides . ’ |
| 3 | It was simply too demeaning to believe that the experience we had shared had been dependent on such things as the amount of booze Dennis put away that lunchtime . |
| 4 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that the Transport and General Workers Union has been wrong on all the major issues facing the country in the past 12 years ? |
| 5 | He had trod a very narrow path , fraught with danger ; had he been wrong on any detail , it would have spelt disaster . |
| 6 | Two authors , at least , have been explicit on this subject . |
| 7 | And she had been pretty on that slab , all the influences of birth and upbringing cancelled out . |
| 8 | The building society claimed repayment of interest under the provisions of section 35A of the Supreme Court Act 1981from the three dates on which the payments were made , on the ground that the principal had been repayable on those dates as sums paid pursuant to an unlawful demand . |
| 9 | We should dearly have loved to have cried or been sick on many a social occasion . |
| 10 | However , it might be that psychiatric opinion would have been helpful on that aspect of the case . |
| 11 | Cases have also been helpful on some points of detail . |
| 12 | ‘ Was that why you told Danny she shaved ? ’ asked Camille , who had been present on that occasion . |
| 13 | Nurse Valerie Roper said she had spoken to Allitt after the first two or three arrests at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital and mentioned that she had been present on each occasion . |
| 14 | I had n't been alone on this drinking jag . |
| 15 | Antoine might have been blind on all normal frequencies but he knew how to assemble his do-it-yourself rig by touch and she marvelled at his deftness . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been busy on another plan . |
| 17 | Now , I 'm , I might have been remiss on this , but we had to do this in a hurry , erm , to get names in , and , but it 's been suggested by erm , the leader of the er , Conservative group on , on this Committee , that erm , a , a , member from each should , major group should go , and er , I 'm quite , I 'm quite inordinate , in favour of this , if we can get erm , bookings there now . |
| 18 | Marxists have often been reticent on these questions . |
| 19 | We 've been precise on this because this is , if you look at your agenda papers , er quite detailed suggestion , one of the quotas , one of the options er in fact that we , the same about officer 's , erm nine twenty er the basis er , er is , is erm a very near to the that 's thirty five including capital , er we had to go fur further , obviously and , but we picked the Labour figure er and I wonder a little because the advice we have is that once we go over nine twenty places become much more erm , unfortunately costly . |
| 20 | Bush 's attendance at Rio had reportedly been conditional on this . |
| 21 | No real consultation would have been necessary on that score . |
| 22 | A king not universally popular , who owed his throne to assassination , must have been sensitive on such an issue , and maybe sometimes nervous of joining large assemblies of armed men . |
| 23 | Yes indeed , Bob Giles , the membership has been quiet on this issue . |
| 24 | Although the chemistry of modern Earth-bound life is all carbon-chemistry , this may not be true all over the universe , and it may not always have been true on this Earth . |