Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be a company with financial problems but ITN has put on a glitzier show . |
| 2 | WALLASEY-based same-day courier service Mercury Express has embarked on a national expansion . |
| 3 | More recently , Exmoor National Park has decided on a more active policy of land purchase as the only sure way of conserving existing agricultural landscapes . |
| 4 | Forest boss Brian Clough has agreed on a swap deal involving Northern Ireland winger Kingsley Black going to Hillsborough plus £200,000 cash coming Forest 's way . |
| 5 | Mr Hawke has embarked on a crusade to join the airlines in smashing the pilots ' claim , seeing it as a crucial challenge to the cornerstone of his government 's economic policy , the wages accord between government , employers and unions . |
| 6 | IBM Corp 's board has settled on a pay and benefits package for new chief executive Louis Gerstner , who takes up his post today , valued at over $7m : he will receive an annual salary of $2m , a one-time transition payment of $5m and a string of other incentives including a performance incentive potentially worth $1.5m a year , $500,000 long-term incentive tied to performance over three years and options on 500,000 IBM shares — far more than predecessor John Akers got . |
| 7 | The relative esteem in which stones have been held at different times has rested on a number of factors . |
| 8 | The company will also be estopped if the transferee has relied on a false statement in his transferor 's certificate that the transferor was the registered holder of the shares on the date stated in the certificate . |
| 9 | Beauty therapy has moved on a pace . |
| 10 | Over the past 12 years , Media Action has broadcast on a wide range of health issues . |
| 11 | Underpinning research has continued on a number of topics . |
| 12 | In attempting to deal with the observable and measurable aspects of leadership behaviour , and perhaps to simplify for normative purposes , leadership research has focused on a narrow set of styles — democratic , autocratic , and laissez-faire , for example . |
| 13 | Nebbins was Mr Cooper 's only horse who worked very hard , pulled the plough and the hay cart , and his , all the other jobs that a horse had to do on a farm . |
| 14 | Blanche 's eyes had focused on a group of American youths at the bar sporting baseball caps . |
| 15 | On May 9 the Speaker of the House of Representatives , Arthit Urairat , announced that the government and opposition parties had agreed on a number of constitutional revisions , including one which would bar a non-elected person , such as Suchinda , from becoming Prime Minister . |
| 16 | Whether or not the subject of a mosaic was chosen by the client , the mosaicist had to rely on a number of aids and methodical practices when organising his work . |
| 17 | The SJP lads had to rely on a topsy-turvy 6–21 , 21–8 , 22–20 victory for league stalwart John Wickers over Peter Hance to secure their share of the points from the last game of the evening . |
| 18 | The widely-scattered smoke-swirls from destroyed weapons and vehicles showed that the enemy had advanced on a broad front . |
| 19 | For Macpherson everything about the general run of American movies ‘ belonged to the 1910 period ’ when the industry had alighted on a certain type of narrative film as being most suitable for its mass audience . |
| 20 | As long as historical materialism no longer saw itself as involved in the objective crisis complex , as soon as it understood its critique exclusively as positive science and the dialectic objectively as the law of the world , then the ideological character of consciousness had to take on a metaphysical quality … . |
| 21 | Luce had n't intended to take it ; her lips had parted on a purely reflex action . |
| 22 | Industry sources said KLM had insisted on a 40pc share , while BA wanted an 80/20 or , at the very least , a 70/30 split . |
| 23 | Next up , and light years away from the real world , PLANET GONG have survived on an even more meagre diet of dodgy rock ideology and space cadet wizardry , commanded by the absurd Ronald McDonald persona of Daevid Allen — long time centrifugal force in the Land Of Gong . |
| 24 | The Governors of the eight US states abutting the Great Lakes have agreed on a series of voluntary pollution controls . |
| 25 | The Bank along with Jimmy Hill Have shaken on a deal , With common aims and much good will It 's virtually sealed . |
| 26 | This and the previous chapter have concentrated on an analysis of some of the major behavioural influences and This and the previous chapter have concentrated on an analysis of some of the major behavioural influences and determinants of individual demand . |
| 27 | This and the previous chapter have concentrated on an analysis of some of the major behavioural influences and This and the previous chapter have concentrated on an analysis of some of the major behavioural influences and determinants of individual demand . |
| 28 | Maps in the eastern Irish Sea area have been updated , and work has begun on a review , incorporating newly released commercial data , of the maps from the Moray Firth . |
| 29 | WORK has begun on a new , purpose-built shed at The Railway Age in Crewe , Cheshire 's newest and most innovative tourist destination . |
| 30 | Work has begun on a £13.3 million development for Foss Development Corporation to build three , four and five storey office buildings and three storey car park in York . |