Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bourdieu has written on traditional societies and modern society , but does not at all on the face of it seem to have a theory of modernization . |
| 2 | Bishop Crowley has appeared on religious programmes for radio and television . |
| 3 | The resulting debate was the first the parliament has held on green issues . |
| 4 | Since 1987 the hospice has concentrated on supporting patients at home . |
| 5 | A leading politics don at Oxford University has called on local parliamentary candidate , Bruce Kent , to urge his party to support a public referendum on electoral reform . |
| 6 | DSR has acquired on undisclosed terms manufacturing , distribution and marketing rights to the Opus Personal Mainframe line along with current inventory , spare parts and access to the existing customer base . |
| 7 | A GRIEVING family 's plea to have a symbolic teddy bear carved on their seven-week-old daughter 's grave has fallen on deaf ears . |
| 8 | In common with other leading manufacturers , Nike has majored on fit as the latest sports shoe battleground , but the Oregonians have arrived at their solution in a relatively minimalist fashion . |
| 9 | New issues crowd in to join them : environmental management , repairing the damage which socialist concentration on heavy industry has inflicted on Eastern Europe , technological competition in a world where the struggle for economic supremacy is replacing the struggle for military security , migration and refugee flows on an vast scale . |
| 10 | And what of John Deacon , for whom Neil has deputised on recent occasions ? |
| 11 | The police force has split on ethnic lines , with Muslims guarding one end of the bridge and Serbs the other . |
| 12 | The majority of natural hazard research has focused on single hazards but of course any area may be prone to more than one hazard type . |
| 13 | In all these contexts there are high demands on individuals for effective and responsible behaviour , and it becomes crucial to know what precise effects sleep loss has had on normal functioning . |
| 14 | The club had fallen on hard times , and the arrival of a travelling circus of the long hairs , trainee freaks and happening performers seemed like a good idea . |
| 15 | Throughout the late 1960s and for much of the 1970s , the Urban Programme had concentrated on social schemes . |
| 16 | The three parties had disagreed on major issues and the coalition had been undermined by national discontent over recent austerity measures . |
| 17 | Abbott C.J. , with whom Bayley J. agreed on this point , said the payment might have been voluntary if the parties had stood on equal terms , and continued , at p. 735 : |
| 18 | It was a priority for Soviet leaders to limit the damage their intervention in Afghanistan had wrought on Soviet Iranian relations . |
| 19 | In May 1856 , two months after his speech in Moscow , the tsar met Nazimov at Brest and discovered that , in the north-west , his words had fallen on fruitful soil . |
| 20 | Ferenczi had reported on little Arpad , who had a great interest and identification with chickens . |
| 21 | Thousands of homes in the North-East had to rely on stored water for 40 hours after the pollution alert at Barnard Castle the discharge was traced to the vicinity of the Lartington Treatment Works , but its precise source has not been named . |
| 22 | Comprehensivization , he muttered to himself , seemed to have had much the same effect on the middle-middle class in England as racial integration in schools had had on similar people in the States . |
| 23 | Most considerations have concentrated on certain aspects and left others to the imagination . |
| 24 | Of late , the Laney range has focused on solid state technology to fuel its best-selling Linebacker range , resisting the current fetish for sticking a single valve into the preamp section in an attempt to provide the best of both worlds . |
| 25 | Although Jacqueline 's work has appeared on fine art posters and greetings cards , she maintains an integrity to her own working style . |
| 26 | Work has started on developing procedures for dissolving solid samples so that this versatile technique of multi-element analysis can be applied to them . |
| 27 | In recent years there have been some significant advances in studying the auditory system , especially in the analysis of computational maps that recode intensity and phase differences in the two ears into the representation of auditory space ( Knudsen , DuLac , and Esterly 1987 ) , but this work has focused on subcortical mechanisms . |
| 28 | Initial work has focused on general SVQs at levels II and III in the areas of business administration , care , hospitality , leisure and tourism , and technology . |
| 29 | Most serious work has focused on improving Pulse Code Modulation ( PCM ) — the basic method of breaking a waveform into discrete elements for digitisation — and on the transmission of the bit codes that measure the value of the wave form . |
| 30 | Much of the work has concentrated on verbal memory ( for words or passages of text ) and spatial memory ( for diagrams or pictures ) . |