Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The millionaire Boss has agreed to appear on a new TV programme called Takeover , which highlights an outlawed squatter group who have seized buildings in eight US cities for use by the homeless . |
| 2 | Red faces at Hoesch , a German steel and engineering group , because its supervisory board has failed to agree on a new chief executive , and will now have to look outside . |
| 3 | A co-operative may have more difficulty in raising a large initial sum of venture capital and hence be at a greater risk of starting with too big a burden of interest on loan capital ; but , having got started on a sound financial footing , it would be under no special difficulty in doing as well as ordinary firms . |
| 4 | However , he would not have been around to negotiate with the RAF and would have had to rely on a tenuous radio link with the LRDG main base . |
| 5 | An Astropath on board a barge bound on the long slow haul from Karkason to the dwarf partner star , Karka Secundus , had chanced to eavesdrop on a telepathic message from the mining world to one of those agric planets that Sagramoso had seduced , using pirates paid with power crystals as his emissaries — pirates who had made themselves scarce with their illicit starships when the crusade had come through the Warp to Karka 's Sun . |
| 6 | The car , a green Morris Minor , had been toppled over the edge of a shallow depression in the wasteland , and had lurched to rest on a grassy plateau about ten feet from the ridge like a clumsy animal going to earth . |
| 7 | Alice said , " I have come to report on an agreed squat — you know , short-term housing — surely you know … " |
| 8 | While MICHAEL PALIN goes Pole to Pole , ZODIAC MINDWARP and enigmatic KLF mastermind BILL DRUMMOND have decided to go on an Arctic adventure all of their own and without the help of special medication … |
| 9 | That is where the power of the edge , the fringe , should n't be underestimated : artists have had to take on a self-sufficient approach which I applaud . |
| 10 | In others , where the courts have been unable to find any contract between the parties , the courts have had to rely on an equitable doctrine of confidence . |
| 11 | The others have preferred to compete on a local-for-local basis with many others whose limits are purely national . |
| 12 | Most of the titles have continued to work on a similar principle , whereby the title and image work towards a paradoxical suggestive propriety . |
| 13 | In the older nation states , after the war , fascist parties disappeared ( although they have begun to re-emerge on a small scale in recent years ) , regional and nationalist parties have been formed within existing states , there has been a succession of new political parties ( and destruction of them by military intervention ) in Latin America , while in some European countries there has been a revival of liberal and ‘ centre ’ parties and the emergence of ‘ green ’ parties . |
| 14 | Asian , American and European logging companies have begun exploiting on a massive scale the world 's largest remaining native forest in Siberia , now part of the Russian Federation . |