Example sentences of "[noun] has [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 | WORK has begun on a new , purpose-built shed at The Railway Age in Crewe , Cheshire 's newest and most innovative tourist destination . |
| 6 | Work has begun on a new £800,000 housing scheme for the elderly in Hartlepool . |
| 7 | Work has begun on a hard-hitting film about the Great Western Railway . |
| 8 | WORK has started on a major business and housing development in north Essex . |
| 9 | And on its site , work has started on a new multi purpose complex which is the latest phase in the revitalisation of the village . |
| 10 | 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 " . |
| 11 | Whatever the cause of failure , help to families has to operate on a wide front . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Because of this , the National Retreat Movement has decided on a new form of membership — Parish Membership . |
| 14 | The Oxford postgraduate student has hit on a novel way of studying moths on his forthcoming trip to Sumatra . |
| 15 | The Oxford postgraduate student has hit on a novel way of studying moths on his forthcoming trip to Sumatra . |
| 16 | The Ness Historical Society has focussed on a small group of six unemployed young people who have gone round the villages collecting tape recordings and photographs relating specifically to past modes of employment and to emigration . |
| 17 | The spread of the HIV virus has continued on a massive scale throughout the decade , to the point where fears of a global depopulation of Black Death proportions have come to seem more plausible . |
| 18 | Once the smile has been interpreted as a greeting , the receiver has to decide on an appropriate means of feedback . |
| 19 | An inquest has opened on a young girl , who it 's alleged was murdered by her father . |
| 20 | An inquest has opened on a brilliant student found hanging in her room at an Oxford college . |
| 21 | The noise and vibration team led by Bill Stubbs has worked on a diverse range of projects from planning permissions for private opencast coal mining companies to th study of noise from Hartlepool Rugby Club . |
| 22 | Maidstone Prison has embarked on a long and costly process to bring integral sanitation to cells , to avoid the ‘ slopping out ’ process and the need to have chamber pots in cells . |