Example sentences of "been [verb] on several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Thus , where a lease has been assigned on several occasions a series , or chain , of indemnities will be built up . |
| 4 | The rules pertaining to the right to buy have been modified on several occasions . |
| 5 | From the early nineteenth century Japan had been approached on several occasions by Western nations active in Asian waters and anxious to initiate trading and other contacts . |
| 6 | That the court can take such an initiative is well settled and indeed it has been done on several occasions in the past . |
| 7 | He had been seen on several levels of the North Star site . |
| 8 | Before starting school he had attended the child development centre , received speech therapy and since had been seen on several occasions by the educational psychologist . |
| 9 | He has been bailed on several sureties and appears in court tomorrow . ’ |
| 10 | Forces from these garrisons have been used on several occasions against recalcitrant East European governments , though with the one exception of the limited uprising in the GDR in 1953 , they have always been extensively reinforced from the Western Military Districts of the USSR . |
| 11 | These are now due to occur in 1991 , having been postponed on several occasions over the past few years . |
| 12 | The ‘ flocculus hypothesis ’ is that a small area of the cerebellum , the flocculus , adaptively controls VOR by regulating signal flow from labyrinths to the flocculus to the relay cells of VOR , and has been challenged on several grounds . |
| 13 | It is not always easy to separate hardware and software and this fact has been demonstrated on several occasions in the courts . |
| 14 | We now shall take up an issue that has been touched on several times before : power transformation of the scale of a variable in order to make its analysis easier . |
| 15 | The Walls of Troy turf maze near Brandsby , North Yorkshire , is possibly the most ancient in Britain , though it has been re-cut on several occasions , most recently in 1934 , when carts using the grass verge had obliterated it . |
| 16 | Waugh 's ‘ senile slobber ’ against Eliot — he as good as called Eliot ‘ a drunken helot ’ — has been remarked on several times , notably in his son Evelyn 's autobiography , A Little Learning . |
| 17 | ‘ There you are then , ’ said Lydia , who had now been forced on several occasions to concede that Betty was not unsympathetic and understood more than Lydia would have thought her capable of . |
| 18 | The defences to murder have been reviewed on several occasions , most recently in 1989 by the House of Lords Select Committee on Murder and Life Imprisonment . |
| 19 | This system has been implemented on several super-computers , since it provides scope for instruction overlapping ( described in 8.2 ) . |
| 20 | It has been debated on several occasions and it had its Second Reading in May 1989 when it was introduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing , Acton ( Sir G. Young ) . |
| 21 | Elections to the National Assembly , a body which had been suspended on several occasions since independence , were held in July 1979 , September 1984 and September 1989 . |
| 22 | The site has a special significance for Icelanders , whose independence has been compromised on several occasions over the years . |