Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] have [be] [verb] on " in BNC.

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1 It was also resolved that this article should appear in ‘ Contact ’ to inform members of Convocation of the course of action that has been forced on Standing Committee by Hong Kong Branch due to their noncompliance with the standing orders of the Branch Constitution .
2 It is an authoritative review of the research that has been done on a fascinating fauna .
3 I think the research that has been done on the children affected by the Zebrugge ferry disaster and the Jupiter cruise ship sinkings has shown , for instance , that children in secondary schools are actually being affected in their exam performance .
4 These conclusions were consigned to the inside pages , since they did not fit the script that had been written on Scotland 's behalf .
5 After the shooting , the IRA had acknowledged that all three men were members of its mid-Ulster brigade and had been killed on ‘ active service ’ .
6 Just how it came to be extinguished was something of a mystery , and even the Israelis who live in Ben Ami — the farming settlement that has been built on the site — had scarcely heard the name .
7 Aubrey had been at his most affected , protesting volubly at the trick that had been played on him .
8 When the absurdly naive theatricals by which the clerks seek to cloak their scheme for preventing the miller 's stealing — which has increased from the " curteis " to the " outrageous " with the illness of their college 's manciple — reveal their design to him , he determines to steal yet more , out of pride , and out of his own version of measure for measure , but not out of covetousness : As soon as the two clerks can stop and consider the trick that has been played on them , we see that the miller 's action , motivated by his pride , hits directly at the pride of the clerks : Another offence to John 's pride leads him later to attempt to bed the miller 's wife , hearing the success of Alayn with the daughter ( 4199 – 209 ) .
9 There is absolutely no correlation between those figures and the degree of constraint that has been applied on districts .
10 The shields of his men broke bows against the shields of his enemies , and the shouting that had been going on all the time rose to a shattering yell .
11 I mean , I think a lot of national organisations that are giving , I trust that are giving money to people actually do want to know that sort of detail about where the money is going , because , if I go through this , I mean , I would have to say that I should imagine that a very small percentage of the money that has been collected on these flag days will actually get back into Oxfordshire .
12 And you can line up a special treat to celebrate when the battle is won — using the money that has been saved on a holiday or to buy yourself something special .
13 Eh , , I mean there 's a idea the money that 's been spent on the railways instead of on motorways we 'd be a lot better off , and I think and Partners subscribed to that because I think that erm , had more money being spent on the railways that we would have been much better off , oh I 'd much rather go on a train journey than on a motor bridge journey .
14 They er di the strange thing about the critics is it 's a theatre town and being like er Nottingham has been made m much more so by the the money that 's been spent on the theatre as in Norwich .
15 They er d the strange thing about the critics is it 's a theatre town and being like er Nottingham has been made m much more so by the the money that 's been spent on the theatre as in Norwich .
16 They er d the strange thing about the critics is it 's a theatre town and being like er Nottingham has been made m much more so by the the money that 's been spent on the theatre as in Norwich .
17 They er d the strange thing about the critics is it 's a theatre town and being like er Nottingham has been made m much more so by the the money that 's been spent on the theatre as in Norwich .
18 The blue-tit that had been swinging on a bramble , singing " Heigh , ho , go-and-get-another-bit-of-moss , " stopped his acrobatics and flew into the wood .
19 The screen replaces the car windscreen , and on it is shown a road scene that has been recorded on video tape , and transferred to disk .
20 Yesterday evening I went through the village and along the road leading to the village that had been attacked on the evening of the 12th June .
21 The one positive thing to emerge from privatisation so far has been the degree of accountability that has been imposed on Group 4 , far more stringent than the level the police and prison officers are used to .
22 ‘ I believe the importance of genetic influences has been diminished in the amount of work that has been done on environmental influences .
23 We need now , therefore , to consider the empirical work that has been done on the topic of acquired distinction ( and on acquired non-distinctiveness or equivalence ) .
24 Some of his biology is not too sound ; his statement that the gulls of the northern hemisphere may be exceptional — ‘ In the majority of species such gradual variation is not seen , and all the members are equally interfertile ’ — seems based on a plentiful lack of knowledge of the work that has been done on geographical variation in many groups of animals , including birds .
25 Thirty of the first 40 titles are mono ( contrary to the original Savoy notes provided with six of these ) , and all are marked ‘ AAD ’ — surely an eccentricity given the work that has been done on the original signal ?
26 An excellent example is the work that has been done on the hippocampus .
27 We thank you for those in Exeter who have granted permission for the work that has been done on this church building , and for the help that has been given towards the planning of the new building .
28 Otherwise , the excellent work that has been done on education and exhibitions will have to cease .
29 The neglect of the subject as a whole is no doubt simply due to the disproportionate amount of recent linguistic work that has been done on English or closely related languages .
30 Father , we are thankful for the work that has been completed on the church building and we rejoice at the skills and abilities that have made it possible .
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