Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the scale of each consultation exercise , and the make–up of the consultation list has differed depending on the topic in question , there are a number of key tasks which have to be carried out . |
| 2 | Because it is not one of the more imposing buildings for which public funds are more readily available , it has had to rely on the care and attention of those who live around it and they are among the poorer people of the city . |
| 3 | The majority of research has tended to focus on the pattern recognition level , with the higher level processes being progressively of lesser interest . |
| 4 | As the term ‘ socialisation ’ suggests this research has tended to concentrate on the macro-level , emphasising the influence of the social structure on the individual . |
| 5 | THE president of Liss WI , Heather Gold , welcomed members to the recent meeting and announced that Jean Pay has volunteered to serve on the committee . |
| 6 | British Rail Engineering has refused to comment on the award . |
| 7 | Carmen Callil said : ‘ I 've been working with Frances Coady since 1986 , when she joined Jonathan Cape , and one of the greatest pleasures of my working life has been to observe the publishing genius she has brought to beat on the creation of Vintage . |
| 8 | The local valuation office has declined to comment on the matter , although the Inland Revenue said mistakes were inevitable in such a huge valuation market . |
| 9 | Over the last two years , however , it can hardly have escaped your notice that a new software application called desktop publishing has begun to appear on the scene . |
| 10 | Over the millennia , nature has learnt to capitalise on the abundance of iron and its mild reactivity to perform many important biochemical reactions , these include oxygen transport , which depends on the iron maintaining its Fe(II) oxidation state , to bioredox catalysis ( for example in the production of metabolic energy ) where iron rapidly undergoes reversible oxidation state changes . |
| 11 | The horse has evolved to walk on the tip of the equivalent of the third finger in the human hand : the other ‘ fingers ’ have been lost in evolution . |
| 12 | Indeed , it appears that in terms of its expected percentage vote the Right has failed to capitalise on the electorate 's wish to punish the ruling Socialists . |
| 13 | Foster City , California-based Blyth Holdings Inc says that the Norwegian Police Force has chosen to standardise on the company 's Omnis Seven Plus Windows-based software on thousands of personal computers to be linked to unidentified Unix servers running the Ingres relational database management system . |
| 14 | She glanced down at him as though he were something she 'd found smeared on the sole of her shoe after visiting an abattoir . |
| 15 | And I did n't feel any more afraid , walking into the flats , than I would have felt walking on the road at night you know in in where I 'd been before . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't give notice , ’ Leith butted in , having got started on the honesty trail . |
| 17 | This may have helped draw on the Enemy 's hasty stroke , thinks Gandalf at III , 88 . |
| 18 | They were absolutely not a disaster for women , obviously I would have preferred to stay on the shadow cabinet , but we have three women in the shadow cabinet , and we have a number of women in senior positions outside the shadow cabinet . |
| 19 | Listening to her talk about the make of corset she wore and the neckline shape that best suited her , speaking on these matters with the kind of solemnity they would only have brought to bear on the country 's economic situation or the future of the United Nations , they regarded her with the polite incomprehension with which they would have looked at a Martian . |
| 20 | The surgeon may have refused to operate on the passenger because it was her own baby . |
| 21 | ‘ KISS ’ IS the record that made Prince unnecessary ; it contains everything that is great about him and after he had released it , he could quite easily have gone to live on the Moon and he would not have been missed . |
| 22 | If the Prince of Wales had not stood up and spoken as he did that day , the government might have remained entrenched on the subject for considerably longer than it was . |
| 23 | Having started dancing on the advice of a PE teacher , he was accepted at 16 into the Royal Ballet Upper School , the only black student there . |
| 24 | He would have liked to stand on the roof of the train and leap along from car to car like one of the bad guys in that Western . |
| 25 | I should have liked to trample on the face of the first German I could find and kick him over and over again in the stomach . |
| 26 | I was asked if I wished my name to be withdrawn a second time but I declined , feeling it would be wrong to have to continue to rely on the goodwill and hospitality of friends in order to continue playing . |
| 27 | Indeed , Bethurum Loomis argued that Wulfstan 's disillusion with Æthelred , and perhaps with Cnut too , can be traced in his work , stressing that he modified his views on royal sanctity , seems not to have wished to rely on the king 's ability to keep public order , and eventually stated that bishops should direct all affairs , both lay and ecclesiastical . |
| 28 | Those dealing with the replies do not want to have to keep getting on the phone to the PROs concerned . |
| 29 | While Namibia , Hong Kong , Taiwan and Spain won a trip to Scotland for the finals , by contrast RWC appeared to have failed to maximise on the potential of the Qualifying Tournament . |
| 30 | He knew the time because they had arranged to meet on the hour but he was a few minutes late and she was waiting . |