Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | As expected , Graeme Hick has prospered on the Indian tour and regained one essential ingredient — confidence . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The governments of Byelarus , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Moldova , Uzbekistan and Ukraine had called on the Russian government on April 2 not to deregulate oil prices before Oct. 1 , fearing for their economies if the cheap fuel they received from Russia was instead sold to them at world prices . |
| 7 | Tessa had turned on the little light on the bedside table , but otherwise the room was in darkness , and for some moments Bob stood by the door , twisting his head backwards and forwards , trying to take the situation in . |
| 8 | Phoebe had to stand on the cold and excessively clean linoleum floor , far away from the fitted carpets and deep leather chairs of the waiting area . |
| 9 | Gates based his assessment on data which the CIA has collected on the Soviet nuclear power programme since the first Soviet reactor was commissioned in 1954 . |
| 10 | Much of the debate surrounding UDCs has concentrated on the specific evolution of the two longer-standing corporations established in the Docklands of Liverpool and London . |
| 11 | The SDLP had called on the Unionist parties to give a guarantee to continue the talks after the election regardless of its outcome . |
| 12 | Even so , Bicker and Luib had to hunt on the eastern bank to supplement what food they had left . |
| 13 | Also draft of letter I 'll put before Simon for signature once Rob has decided on the crediting point . |
| 14 | In recent weeks , however , Clarke has gone on the public offensive to protect his industry . |
| 15 | Perhaps they got on with their lives under the carpeted floor somewhere , while they were whisked to all the places Masklin had seen on the only map the nomes had ever found . |
| 16 | Everywhere the capricious darting hand of Grace had lighted on the fallen , the ordinary , and they had been briefly lit up and magnified in that illumination . |
| 17 | The concept of a system was not new because Newton had written on the solar system , biologists had been concerned with living systems , and geography had implicitly used notions of the systems concept since early days of the subject . |
| 18 | There was a certain ritual quality in this exchange , as though Melanie had stumbled on the secret sequence of words that would lead her safe over the sword-edge bridge into the Castle of Corbenic . |
| 19 | Certainly there are differences , especially in the better development of marine sediments in the American Pennsylvanian , but these in a way have obscured the resemblances ; for work in America has concentrated on the marine fossils , whereas in Europe we have usually been forced to fall back on the non-marine faunas and floras . |
| 20 | The Pro-note V is the first IBM-compatible machine that Matsushita has offered on the Japanese market — until now it has manufactured and sold only personal computers compatible with Fujitsu Ltd 's FMR series — all the leading brands run incompatible versions of Japanese MS-DOS — indicating a major change in strategy as IBM-compatible machines become more acceptable in Japan with the advent of the DOS/V bilingual operating system . |
| 21 | It would have been very painful for Muldoon to have to pass on the bad news , so he decided to leave for the States and let the Detroit executive personnel Director handle Mark 's affairs . |
| 22 | Henry had decided on the black-and-white minstrel look — rather apt , he thought , since most of the money would be going to Africa . |
| 23 | But instead of giving his long-delayed consent , the king raised a new complaint about the quality of the knights Anselm had sent on the recent Welsh expedition . |
| 24 | Julie had bathed on the previous evening and in view of this and her discomfort it was agreed that shaving and skin preparation would be carried out in theatre . |
| 25 | A GROUP of travelling people who has set up a temporary encampment near the Co Down village of Ardglass have called on the local council to provide a permanent site . |