Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The industrial north of Italy , in turn , has depended heavily on a reserve army of the unemployed from the south — the more backward Mezzogiorno — and now increasingly from North Africa . |
| 2 | WordPerfect has given up on the Wild West theme in favour of giving away peagreen baseball hats . |
| 3 | From Wolhusen the circular itinerary now continues south on road 10 which has come in on the left ( ie east from Luzern . |
| 4 | But Romania 's official press has reported extensively on the ethnic unrest across the border , while , for example , failing to report on the radical reform and street demonstrations taking place in other Warsaw Pact countries . |
| 5 | JAMES FREEMAN , chairman of the Mid-Hants Railway plc , the company which runs the Watercress Line between Alresford and Alton , has reported favourably on the past six months trading in a briefing for shareholders and members , writes RICHARD BEAN . |
| 6 | Although headed by opposition MPs , it has grown independently on a national basis and held its first large scale rally in Colombo in late February 1991 . |
| 7 | UNIVERSITIES ' rugby , poised to sign a long-term sponsorship contract , has missed out on an immediate injection of £35,000 after an embarrassing hitch resulted in the deal being kicked firmly into touch by student authorities . |
| 8 | As with most artists who have become mythical personalities in the popular imagination , such attention has focused primarily on the anecdotal and tragic details of Kahlo 's admittedly fascinating life . |
| 9 | A convoy of vintage Rolls-Royce cars has set out on a nostalgic journey . |
| 10 | The analysis of authority has concentrated exclusively on a one-to-one relation between an authority and a single person subject to it . |
| 11 | ‘ Your mother has gone off on a little holiday , ’ he had announced vaguely and Katherine had returned to New York and to school . |
| 12 | I have only come across one women at the Humboldt University who has worked seriously on the Russian Avant-garde . |
| 13 | The group , with a total of 1,500 customers , has focussed primarily on the financial sector , where it generates 69.8% of turnover . |
| 14 | The debate concerning the factual consequences of insider dealing has centred mainly on the predictive power of economics . |
| 15 | Railway enthusiasts , understandably , have let off steam about the matter and say the town has lost out on a major tourist opportunity . |
| 16 | PAUL Gascoigne has splashed out on a secret honeymoon for his sister . |
| 17 | The club 's Jarrow born manager Jimmy Mullen ( Backtrack , December 10 ) was obliged to send a deputy to last Friday 's manager of the year awards the entire team has shoved off on a sponsored fortnight in Bermuda . |
| 18 | Erm but I say there , there were a couple of erm objections that came up during the course of the conversation which really resulted because you , you 'd fallen down on the actual structure , but having said that then again there were two or three examples that you apacked and you got through very well and you , you recovered yourself well on that and , and I say really I think that 's er that 's covered most of the bits that , that I felt were , were there . |
| 19 | Van Gelder had n't made any mistakes about her , Talbot thought , except that he 'd missed out on the wide green eyes and a rather bewitching smile . |
| 20 | This time bomb is ticking away , colleagues , and in about twenty years ' time , we 'll be back to where we were we 'll have a lot of people who 've got small pensions , based on their previous employment with a health authority or a local authority , British Gas or the electricity companies then they 've had to go out on the open market and they will be under-funded and have inadequate pension when they retire . |
| 21 | Unless you take a different view , our own preference would be to pursue the question of a travelling display as actively as we can , recognising , however , that if it does not prove feasible for reasons of finance and other resources to mount such a display in the foreseeable future we may have to fall back on the reduced-size Barrel Vault display . |
| 22 | Thus , we would have to fall back on the anthropic principle to explain why the electron has the mass and charge that it does . |
| 23 | The broader track from the Horse Fair was better for riding ; he would not have to pass by on the narrow path where he had stumbled over Aldhelm 's body . |
| 24 | He appears to be something of a Lingfield specialist , having won twice on the all-weather flat track . |
| 25 | They may also have missed out on the crucial period of sociability , relatively early in life , when dogs learn about their wider environment . |
| 26 | The W.C. , however , was outside , and I used to indulge in a small secret smile when , having crept out on a freezing night to the little ‘ necessary house ’ , I must needs sit facing an outdated calendar showing a picture of ‘ A Sunny Haven ’ . |
| 27 | The more serious test came that evening when , having lunched out on a huge cote de boeuf , we were unexpectedly presented with the full fruits of our labours at dinner . |
| 28 | ‘ My , but we must have got up on the right side of the interrogation cell this morning . ’ |
| 29 | If he had been walking out with any other girl in service in the town they could have stayed in on a wet night and talked by the kitchen range , but with the Hogans hovering around he had to bring Patsy out into the rain . |
| 30 | He would have to leave early on a sick call , he said . |