Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] on a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The analysis of authority has concentrated exclusively on a one-to-one relation between an authority and a single person subject to it . |
| 4 | He would have to leave early on a sick call , he said . |
| 5 | The only disadvantage is having to stay indoors on a lovely day . ’ |
| 6 | He had not much enjoyed the campaign , and whether because of this or of the result , he had to go immediately on a two-day walk from Kingham to Oxford to purge himself of his ‘ humours ’ . |
| 7 | ’ It would n't be an overstatement to say we 've carried near on a hundred tons of material of one sort or another up this driveway to our house , whereas it could have been done in a couple of days with permission to drive up . ’ |
| 8 | At a time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely in that time with such grace and preconception-shattering nerve . |
| 9 | AT A time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely with such grace . |
| 10 | But Mrs. Pridmore had seized gratefully on a familiar name . |
| 11 | On the window was a blue-and-red peacock she had stencilled there on a wet afternoon when the garden was blanked out with grey rain . |
| 12 | And at the moment , all five of them have joined together on a single campaign , which is about trade . |
| 13 | Five years in the making , ‘ The Century of Tung Ch'i-ch'ang ’ marks the first time the two Chinese museums have participated jointly on an international exhibition . |
| 14 | Second , the ASB believes that analysts have concentrated unduly on a single figure in the accounts , earnings per share . |
| 15 | Last year the town missed out , but the borough council , residents and business people have worked together on a new ten-point plan which includes regenerating the town centre by making it fully pedestrianised , building a new shopping development and improving access for disabled people . |
| 16 | JMTC and Gillotts School , Henley-on-Thames have worked together on an exciting project to develop new teaching materials describing an everyday or industrial application of chemistry . |