Example sentences of "[noun prp] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Bank along with Jimmy Hill Have shaken on a deal , With common aims and much good will It 's virtually sealed . |
| 6 | So the ANC has embarked on a programme of mass action to put pressure on the government . |
| 7 | It was an opportune moment to return because the citizens of Aberdeen had embarked on a series of ambitious street improvements at the same time as the technology had developed to enable the exploitation of the plentiful local granite for building purposes . |
| 8 | The newcomer could scarcely have opened his account in more spectacular fashion , scoring with an overhead kick from 10 yards after Speedie had nodded on a cross from Trevor Peake . |
| 9 | When Camille had choked on an Aztec cuff-link , a sizeable piece of jewellery such as had then been fashionable , Constance 's mum had held her upside down by the ankles and banged her until she disgorged it , while Scarlet had knelt in the unutterable anguish of one about to be bereaved , determining to destroy herself without hesitation should Camille not survive the experience . |
| 10 | Wilson therefore regularized a practice he had begun in 1964 when outsiders such as Professors Nicholas Kaldor and Robert Neild had been recruited into the Treasury , a practice which Heath had followed on a smallish scale . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't you dare ! ’ she squealed , trying to push him off the edge of the sun-lounger and into the swimming-pool , which was how the accident yesterday had happened , fooling around by the poolside like a couple of kids when Ruth had slipped on a supposedly non-slip surface and wrenched her ankle . |
| 12 | Lewis was perfectly correct , even politically correct , to insist that Bowe had reneged on a pledge to fight him first . |
| 13 | Of Callejas 's new Cabinet , also sworn in on Jan. 27 , Benjamin Villanueva Tábora was Economy and Commerce Minister in 1977-79 and Finance Minister in 1981 ; Ramón Medina Luna had been a Deputy Economy Minister ; Manlio Martínez had served on a previous occasion as Planning Minister ; Col. Francisco Zepeda Andino had served as Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force ; and Rodolfo Rosales Abella of the opposition PLH had served briefly as Labour Minister in the last few months of the presidency of José Simeon Azcona . |
| 14 | It is important not to allow this to obscure the fact that , at the height of his power , Eadwine had embarked on an ecclesiastical programme to establish a separate northern province of the Anglo-Saxon Church . |
| 15 | UNDERCOVER star JOHN MATHEWS has gone on a crash diet after ballooning to 15 stone … |
| 16 | On Sept. 19 the RJO announced that it was freezing his release because Israel had reneged on a pledge to release 80 Arab detainees in the earlier transfer — 20 more than the 51 prisoners and nine bodies which were handed over . |
| 17 | Pilger had laid on a lot of beer . |
| 18 | Canada , Scandinavia , the Soviet Union , Japan and China have agreed on a pact for joint environmental protection and scientific research in the Arctic . |
| 19 | In an American context , E. D. Hirsch has remarked on a similar conflict of interest between students who want to know the basic meanings of texts , in their historical contexts , and junior academics who believe there are no basic meanings , only a multiplicity of interpretations . |
| 20 | A former television presenter who hit the headlines amid claims he was the Son of God has embarked on a lecture tour to set the record straight . |
| 21 | Once upon a time Fenna had brooded on a hoard for so many years and with such desire that it had quickened and grown , diamonds breeding and bringing up their young under his weight . |
| 22 | In a series of radio interviews on May 8 Annie Murphy revealed that she and Casey had embarked on a love affair in Ireland in 1973 and that she had given birth to his child two years later . |
| 23 | Federal and state governments in Australia have embarked on a series of national initiatives which show a firm commitment to tackling social inequalities in health . |
| 24 | Britain has reneged on a 1989 agreement to use Flue Gas Desulphurisation ( FGD ) equipment on at least 12,000 MW of power stations . |
| 25 | Toronto had scored on a sacrifice fly and a single in the second inning and on a home run by Ernie Whitt in the fourth inning . |
| 26 | By the time that she had balanced the tray on a small table , the silver teapot carefully placed where Matey could preside over it , Mrs Darrell had embarked on an attack on Dr Neil and the profession which he had taken up . |
| 27 | By going beyond the scented ashram walls of Subud , Lorne and Lydia had touched on an unsuspected world on the brink of disappearing . |
| 28 | A high-level team from the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , visiting six Iranian installations on Feb. 6-13 , failed to uncover any evidence to support allegations that Iran had embarked on a covert nuclear weapons programme . |
| 29 | The move was sharply criticized by environmental experts , who said it would set back research and also meant that NP had reneged on a pledge that work on environmental problems would not suffer under privatization . |
| 30 | AFTER A YEAR of negotiations , 122 A tape and electronics companies , 97 from Japan and 25 from the West have agreed on a new standard for home video . |