Example sentences of "has [vb pp] on [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | One could almost imagine oneself back into the Middle Ages but for the fact that technology has marched on through the centuries to replace rough-hewn bows of Yew with fibreglass ones , equipped with very advanced sights . |
2 | His modest apology for tardiness in producing this volume is unnecessary in any terms , considering the magnitude of his task , and when in addition one realises that he has pressed on with the completion of the work during his convalescence from a serious illness , it is clear that his apology should be replaced by the public 's commendation . |
3 | I think it 's more likely to happen on the third or fourth flight , once the bird has caught on to the idea of freedom , which is why it 's important to keep it reasonably hungry . |
4 | Raisins were first included in American cookies only six years ago , but the idea has caught on with a vengeance . |
5 | While I admire the saddle-stitching on the suitcase , Karl has moved on to a conference about the length of Gisela 's fringe . |
6 | Baton Rouge , Louisiana-based Fifth Generation Systems , a little spitfire in the MS-DOS world , has moved on to the Unix scene with its first Unix product , Fastback Plus Unix , a $345 backup and restore utility for Intel Corp 80386 and 80486 machines running UnixWare , Interactive , SCO Unix , System V.3/V.4 and Consensys V.4.2 . |
7 | It is undoubtedly a good thing that royal reporting has moved on from the tradition of deferential reverence in which James Whitaker first learned his trade . |
8 | Verily , the game has moved on from the days when Bobby Locke could , for instance , win seven tournaments in his baptismal year on the US circuit , and four Open Championships on this side of the Atlantic , and yet virtually never feel the need to depart from his habitual draw . |
9 | On the evening of Thursday 1 August , The Royal Academy will open its doors for Country Living readers to view the exhibition that has become on of the highlights of the London Season . |
10 | Because the practice is something in which people share , there are behavioural criteria for saying that someone has cottoned on to the use of an expression . |
11 | The former England winger said : ‘ As someone who has spouted on over the years about contracts , I am not about to walk out on my one with Crystal Palace . |
12 | He said : ‘ As someone who has spouted on over the years about contracts , I am not about to walk out on my one with Crystal Palace . ’ |
13 | What I want to make sure first of all is that erm you understand what has gone on before the scene that we actually want to find ourselves in . |
14 | IN THE first part of this book Michael Shallis gives an interesting non-technical account of how modern physics has gone on from the common-sense notion of time to a whole series of fundamental changes . |
15 | It would be absurd to adopt a rigidly determinist view of what has gone on in the formation of culturally transmitted marriage laws . |
16 | Yeah he is he has put on about a stone since he 's stopped smoking though |