Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] on this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The church of St. John the Baptist has stood on this site for at least I 200 years but at what date the Christian religion first came to Halling we can only guess . |
| 2 | Modern research has expanded on this foundation , drawing upon the results of aerial reconnaissance and , to a lesser extent , excavation . |
| 3 | Indeed , by failing to acknowledge what applied research has to say on this matter , the Griffiths report proceeds from a false premise ( that care by the community — in its present form — is desirable and will continue ) to a false conclusion ( that publicly provided services can be increasingly restricted to an enabling and facilitating role ) . |
| 4 | They assure me that er , preparatory work has started on this erm , and that when Jenny gets back from Dublin this will become top priority for her . |
| 5 | It upset him , as much as it would have upset his wife , to know that the boy had eavesdropped on this most intimate family moment . |
| 6 | What is more surprising , when considering what advocates of testing have to say on this subject , is the lack of ideas on how such information could ever help schools . |
| 7 | Many hunters and men moving close to nature have commented on this sixth sense , warning them of danger . |
| 8 | From the many written questions that my hon. Friend has tabled on this matter , I note not only that the numbers of people in residential and nursing care have increased substantially , as we all know , but also the surprising fact that there has been only a modest fall in the numbers of people in local authority care . |
| 9 | If they had been able to take more time over preparation of their findings and reasons the difficulties this court has faced on this appeal might not have arisen . |
| 10 | The jury of the prestigious Italian Salimbeni book prize for publications on the history and criticism of art has decided on this year 's winners . |
| 11 | He is not the only person to have responded on this point , which just shows how powerful anecdotes can be as memory aids . |
| 12 | This is not to say that a science and technological education had to take on this character , for clearly there were and always have been those who are committed to inspiring in students a love of , and a care for , their subjects in those disciplines . |
| 13 | The Commission has commented on this ‘ problem ’ in a way which is rather surprising given the stated free-market aims of the EEC : |
| 14 | At the start of the conference , the 18 countries which together comprised the European Community and the European Free Trade Area had agreed on this freeze as a common target . |
| 15 | in Trafalgar Square , central London ; a church has stood on this site since at least the thirteenth century . |
| 16 | Kadhafi said that the government had decided on this dual response because France — which did not seek extradition of its suspects — had acted " in conformity with international law and did not infringe upon the sovereignty of Libya " . |
| 17 | Now that the dust has settled on this epic season Boro fans are beginning to realise just how lucky they are to have Lennie Lawrence at the helm . |
| 18 | Here we were disturbed by no one , it seemed that the whole world had stopped on this Scottish Sabbath . |
| 19 | Millions of typists throughout the world have trained on this keyboard layout and are ( understandably ) resistant to change . |
| 20 | They had to ask each other about one element in the writing that they wanted to know more about , and each writer had to act on this question . |
| 21 | As it was impractical to remove this essential structural element , the new first-floor construction had to terminate on this line , so the added floor was restricted to the east side of the central truss . |
| 22 | He warned that the reconciliation process would not progress until the North had moved on this issue . |
| 23 | As time has gone on this emphasis has diminished partly as a response to the pressures of the marketplace . |
| 24 | For centuries a Royal Mile eating and drinking house has stood on this site . |
| 25 | A house has stood on this site since the year 1216 , when the Bishop of Lincoln ordained a vicarage here , but it has been rebuilt over and over again , and last of all in 1856 . |
| 26 | The sort of problems the owners ’ party have had on this trip so far are a tap that wo n't stop dripping , a blind that wo n't stay down in one of the bedrooms , eh ? , and a lady who thought one of her suitcases had been stolen , only it turned up in someone else 's room . ’ |