Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WALLASEY-based same-day courier service Mercury Express has embarked on a national expansion . |
| 2 | The company will also be estopped if the transferee has relied on a false statement in his transferor 's certificate that the transferor was the registered holder of the shares on the date stated in the certificate . |
| 3 | Over the past 12 years , Media Action has broadcast on a wide range of health issues . |
| 4 | In attempting to deal with the observable and measurable aspects of leadership behaviour , and perhaps to simplify for normative purposes , leadership research has focused on a narrow set of styles — democratic , autocratic , and laissez-faire , for example . |
| 5 | The SJP lads had to rely on a topsy-turvy 6–21 , 21–8 , 22–20 victory for league stalwart John Wickers over Peter Hance to secure their share of the points from the last game of the evening . |
| 6 | The widely-scattered smoke-swirls from destroyed weapons and vehicles showed that the enemy had advanced on a broad front . |
| 7 | For Macpherson everything about the general run of American movies ‘ belonged to the 1910 period ’ when the industry had alighted on a certain type of narrative film as being most suitable for its mass audience . |
| 8 | As long as historical materialism no longer saw itself as involved in the objective crisis complex , as soon as it understood its critique exclusively as positive science and the dialectic objectively as the law of the world , then the ideological character of consciousness had to take on a metaphysical quality … . |
| 9 | WORK has begun on a new , purpose-built shed at The Railway Age in Crewe , Cheshire 's newest and most innovative tourist destination . |
| 10 | Work has begun on a new £800,000 housing scheme for the elderly in Hartlepool . |
| 11 | Work has begun on a hard-hitting film about the Great Western Railway . |
| 12 | WORK has started on a major business and housing development in north Essex . |
| 13 | And on its site , work has started on a new multi purpose complex which is the latest phase in the revitalisation of the village . |
| 14 | Wilson therefore regularized a practice he had begun in 1964 when outsiders such as Professors Nicholas Kaldor and Robert Neild had been recruited into the Treasury , a practice which Heath had followed on a smallish scale . |
| 15 | I suppose parents have to put on a brave face . |
| 16 | That was but a seed , but it was a seed well sown and matters have moved on a great deal since then . |
| 17 | The Community has agreed on a broad definition of the trap as : " a device designed to restrain or capture an animal by means of jaws which close tightly upon one or more of the animal 's limbs " . |
| 18 | Of Callejas 's new Cabinet , also sworn in on Jan. 27 , Benjamin Villanueva Tábora was Economy and Commerce Minister in 1977-79 and Finance Minister in 1981 ; Ramón Medina Luna had been a Deputy Economy Minister ; Manlio Martínez had served on a previous occasion as Planning Minister ; Col. Francisco Zepeda Andino had served as Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force ; and Rodolfo Rosales Abella of the opposition PLH had served briefly as Labour Minister in the last few months of the presidency of José Simeon Azcona . |
| 19 | During a raid in March she heard that a bomb had dropped on a burning building , killing six firemen and injuring others . |
| 20 | Whatever the cause of failure , help to families has to operate on a wide front . |
| 21 | The race had started on a wet track — it is almost never dry for a whole weekend in Holland — and Hunt 's victory resulted from the finest sort of judgement about when to come in and change his wet tyres to slicks . |
| 22 | University departments operating within close margins with respect to staffing and clinical resources have to rely on a large measure of good will to achieve continued high standards in teaching and evaluation , which can be difficult to sustain if , for example , reappointments of staff are delayed . |
| 23 | In an American context , E. D. Hirsch has remarked on a similar conflict of interest between students who want to know the basic meanings of texts , in their historical contexts , and junior academics who believe there are no basic meanings , only a multiplicity of interpretations . |
| 24 | Because of this , the National Retreat Movement has decided on a new form of membership — Parish Membership . |
| 25 | The Oxford postgraduate student has hit on a novel way of studying moths on his forthcoming trip to Sumatra . |
| 26 | The Oxford postgraduate student has hit on a novel way of studying moths on his forthcoming trip to Sumatra . |
| 27 | Engineers on Iraq 's Condor-2 ballistic missile programme claim to have worked on a similar project in Romania . |
| 28 | Coalition partners had agreed on a minimum programme with familiar priorities : the fight against organized crime ; reduction of the public deficit ; preparation for European economic union ; and the reform of public services . |
| 29 | Even the article in the local paper had seemed on a quick glance through earlier to be all right . |
| 30 | The appeal to the EAT was based on the issue of whether the Tribunal had relied on a correct statement of the law when it referred to an excerpt from Harvey on Industrial Relations and Employment Law ( based on the EAT decision in Richmond Precision Engineering v Pearce ( [ 1985 ] IRLR 179 ) which stated that ‘ [ t ] he crucial question is whether the terms offered were those which a reasonable employer could offer ’ . |