Example sentences of "been [verb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fallon and Christopher Danaher , 33 — both from Wembley , Middlesex — had been stopped on suspicion of kerb crawling in West London . |
| 2 | On Easter Monday , Belgian police raided a ship equipped for incinerating waste at sea , the Matthias II , in Antwerp harbour , The raid followed reports in the Italian press that the waste , which contains 300 grams of dioxin ( TCDD ) had been incinerated on board a Dutch ship in the North Sea . |
| 3 | Although the inquiry had resulted in the successful prosecution of several former Reagan administration officials , convictions against the two highest-profile defendants — former National Security Advisor John M. Poindexter and his aide , Oliver L. North — had been overturned on appeal . |
| 4 | Had the plane been recalled on account of bad weather and plunged into the sea ? |
| 5 | It was clear that Thomas Grenfell had made more than his share of mistakes , it seemed that The Fine Leather Trading Company had been overspending on labour and without the expected turnover in goods moved and sold . |
| 6 | In most cases lambs have been grazed on land fertilised with pig manure or slurry , such pasture remaining infective for lambs , even after ploughing and cropping . |
| 7 | Allegations that Mr Gandhi or members of his family received large sums have often been heard on opposition hustings , but not a shred of evidence exists that his hands dipped anywhere near the till . |
| 8 | Two policemen were shot dead in Johannesburg yesterday , bringing to 40 the number of South African police members who have been assassinated on duty so far this year . |
| 9 | In this close up shot it is possible to admire some of the piping and detailed work which has been undertaken on number 30075 . |
| 10 | BIRMINGHAM 'S infamous and exhausted retail hub , the Bull Ring , just 25 years old , has been placed on architecture 's death row . |
| 11 | Too great a focus has been placed on text and data . |
| 12 | Parker , signed from Nottingham Forest nearly 12 months ago , has been placed on stand-by for England 's qualifying clash against Norway at Wembley . |
| 13 | The restrictions that have been placed on development in these areas have partly secured these conservationist goals . |
| 14 | The coelocanth fish , regarded as a " living fossil " surviving from geological prehistory , has been placed on Appendix 1 of the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) , thereby effectively banning all trafficking of the fish . |
| 15 | Lord Apsley , heir to the Cirencester Park Estate , has been placed on probation after admitting driving while nearly four times over the alchohol limit . |
| 16 | The court was told Ninham had been convicted of indecently assaulting youngsters in 1990 and had been placed on probation medication to control his sex drive . |
| 17 | In the illustration in table 5.4 three values have been placed on time spent travelling , a frequent element in many CBA analyses . |
| 18 | Recently , emphasis has been placed on electrode surface modification with lipids , polymeric films with functional groups and attachment of various dielectrics to help to discriminate between solute molecules . |
| 19 | When James M. Shaughnessy came to the case , ten days after the disaster , certain agents of the government already knew how and where the bomb had been placed on flight 103 . |
| 20 | In this area , a great deal of emphasis has traditionally been placed on theme rather than on rheme . |
| 21 | Now the company is making more than 200,000 lollies a week and staff have been placed on overtime to cope with extra demand . |
| 22 | On the other hand , indirect taxes have also been criticized on welfare grounds for being regressive , the element of indirect tax embodied in commodity prices taking a higher proportion of the income from lower-paid groups . |
| 23 | If the price paid for the business has been calculated on turnover it is important to the purchaser that he benefits from all existing contracts . |
| 24 | I to you dear children , because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name . |
| 25 | However , the chairman , JC Warburg , begged the audience not to judge the quality of the autochromes too harshly , as some had been developed on location with solutions made from water gleaned from melted snow . |
| 26 | However , the chairman , JC Warburg , begged the audience not to judge the quality of the autochromes too harshly , as some had been developed on location with solutions made from water gleaned from melted snow . |
| 27 | The letter recalled that a 1,750 million ECU loan in 1985 had been given on condition that the PSBR and inflation be reduced over three years [ see p. 34440 ] and that these terms had not been adhered to . |
| 28 | Within a few minutes the picture was effervescing as part of it had been painted on gesso . |
| 29 | Huge marquees had been erected on steel frames . |
| 30 | Four-letter words had been uttered on television before , but never so fulsomely , so splenetically , and never at teatime . |