Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be a company with financial problems but ITN has put on a glitzier show . |
| 2 | WALLASEY-based same-day courier service Mercury Express has embarked on a national expansion . |
| 3 | On occasions Strach has played on the left — To accomodate Hendrie in the promotion year , and when Batty , Macca had a go at right-back last season . |
| 4 | But the decision has backfired on the Second Division club . |
| 5 | D. B. MacDonald has speculated on the difficult question of the origin of this view in Islam and has suggested that it arose from a Muslim heresy ‘ in that dark but intense period of theological and intellectual development which stretched from the death of Muhammad for at least two and a half centuries ’ . |
| 6 | I pause to observe that this would not be the first time that , in this field , Parliament has conferred on the English court a jurisdiction of unlimited territorial application . |
| 7 | As expected , Graeme Hick has prospered on the Indian tour and regained one essential ingredient — confidence . |
| 8 | What is beyond doubt is that just as much as the nuclear scientists have tried to point to a superficially clean industrial process , symbolized by the white Windscale coats , so the public 's fear has centred on the insidious threat of its invisible touch . |
| 9 | In another letter to a Scottish admirer , she said ‘ I can only say that this bubble of my mind has risen on the mighty stream of a Divine purpose ’ . |
| 10 | So far , the explanation of corporate crime has concentrated on the specific long-term goal-orientated feature of corporations and the personnel who might become suited knights ambitiously pursuing the Holy Grail of profits , and who would , if necessary , be willing to initiate and execute crimes for the good of the corporation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Over the past 12 years , Media Action has broadcast on a wide range of health issues . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Much of the existing research has focussed on the internal adaptations of the firm to the introduction of new technology . |
| 15 | Whereas in the earlier revolt fighting had centred on the northern parts of the duchy , Poitou and the Saintonge , in 1 176 it was focused further south and east , in the Angoumois and the Limousin . |
| 16 | Her eyes had remained on the tall , casually dressed man at the other side of the room , noting that little had changed in six years . |
| 17 | In the course of his visit to Sweden , Mandela had called on the international community to sever all diplomatic links with South Africa and to intensify sanctions in order to eliminate apartheid . |
| 18 | Nigeria 's President Babangida on Aug. 16 spoke out against unilateral production increases , while Indonesia had said on the previous day that OPEC should first let the industrialized countries draw down their stockpiles . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Furthermore , these gentlemen had noticed on the local map three villages in the vicinity called Morphy , Saltash and Brigoon . |
| 21 | The widely-scattered smoke-swirls from destroyed weapons and vehicles showed that the enemy had advanced on a broad front . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 … . |
| 24 | But in the massive ballroom across the way there were only a few chairs and a sideboard or two , and even on a dismal day the light had fallen on the intricate design of a wooden parquet floor and pretty chiaroscuro frescoes painted into the panels of gracefully arched walls . |
| 25 | The sapling trees had grown tall in the twenty-five years since the Beeching axe had fallen on the single railway track , and , even leafless as they were , they effectively screened the view from the top . |
| 26 | One of our sherpa porters had stumbled on the rough ground and to save himself had slipped his headstrap to release his load . |
| 27 | These dilemmas may even present themselves shortly after a long policy discussion when both parties have agreed on the proper procedure . |
| 28 | Data have accumulated on the genotoxic potential of anthranoids in bacterial and mammalian studies ( for a review see ) ; |
| 29 | Two of the tracks from those sessions have surfaced on the new album , including one , I 'm told , which she co-wrote with Mike Scott . |
| 30 | As they have settled down , the Committee has concentrated on the specific delivery of services within the system . |