Example sentences of "[noun] have [vb pp] 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 widely-scattered smoke-swirls from destroyed weapons and vehicles showed that the enemy had advanced on a broad front .
6 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 .
7 WORK has begun on a new , purpose-built shed at The Railway Age in Crewe , Cheshire 's newest and most innovative tourist destination .
8 Work has begun on a new £800,000 housing scheme for the elderly in Hartlepool .
9 Work has begun on a hard-hitting film about the Great Western Railway .
10 WORK has started on a major business and housing development in north Essex .
11 And on its site , work has started on a new multi purpose complex which is the latest phase in the revitalisation of the village .
12 Earlier , on March 26 , boundary officials from the two countries had agreed on an early demarcation of the Sir Creek area in the Great Rann of Kutch .
13 When Camille had choked on an Aztec cuff-link , a sizeable piece of jewellery such as had then been fashionable , Constance 's mum had held her upside down by the ankles and banged her until she disgorged it , while Scarlet had knelt in the unutterable anguish of one about to be bereaved , determining to destroy herself without hesitation should Camille not survive the experience .
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 The policeman and the girl had come on an ordinary routine visit .
16 Many sites have advanced on an incremental basis by developing one area on a small-scale system .
17 That was but a seed , but it was a seed well sown and matters have moved on a great deal since then .
18 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 " .
19 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 .
20 It is important not to allow this to obscure the fact that , at the height of his power , Eadwine had embarked on an ecclesiastical programme to establish a separate northern province of the Anglo-Saxon Church .
21 During a raid in March she heard that a bomb had dropped on a burning building , killing six firemen and injuring others .
22 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 .
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 ’ .
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