Example sentences of "have [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent representations he has received on low flying ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 2 | This resort has developed on either side of an old fishing town , along two stretches of gently shelving beach . |
| 3 | His belief is that work has to go on all year round , whether or not that means taking on the hazardous and snow-covered Carpathian mountains . |
| 4 | Harry Judge has commented on programmed learning that it : |
| 5 | Frank Mort has commented on this kind of separation between the new intellectuals who are happy and confident to mix genre and ignore qualitative and semantic difference ‘ because they already know the map of Western culture ’ and are distinct from those ‘ who do not carry with them those levels of cultural capital . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If an outline idea has been discussed over the lunch table ring up to carry it further , and if you have floated an idea by post and have heard nothing phone up to see if it has fallen on stony ground . |
| 8 | As more and more is understood of the way in which interactions between the child and the environment create privileged opportunities for language learning , so it may be possible to reduce the burden of explanation which has fallen on innate factors . |
| 9 | They now feel that the Foundation has reneged on that agreement . |
| 10 | By nationalising the right to use land for a new purpose — in this case , to build houses on it — the Act has placed on all building land a value which is both high ( because monopolistic ) and arbitrary ( because determined not by the market but by the individual , unappealable decisions of the Central Land Board in assessing ‘ development charge ’ ) . |
| 11 | Instead , he has relied on great fitness and stamina to enable him to keep sprinting in at full pace , and speed of arm and perfect balance to capitalize on the momentum ; combined with an unrelenting desire to keep on taking more and more wickets , it has all proved irresistible . |
| 12 | As the educated urban elite abandon Mr Collor , following a series of media exposes of his political record , he has relied on continued support from rural voters at rallies of up to 70,000 . |
| 13 | Initially supported in its early stages by a grant from the J. Paul Getty Trust ( the first Getty grant to be awarded to an art journal ) , Print Quarterly has relied on generous benefactors and advertising revenue since that date . |
| 14 | More frequently , the MMC has relied on informal assurances that criticized behaviour will be discontinued . |
| 15 | Water has frozen on cold nights in the cracks or joints of rocks and this has split them apart . |
| 16 | The press 's current output has built on existing strengths : its increased concentration on anthropology , social sciences and politics stands alongside established topics such as Islamic studies , history , linguistics and biological science . |
| 17 | Unlike previous education secretaries , he has built on recent changes and amassed a far wider range of powers before setting his plans in motion . |
| 18 | The table he has built on this plan — only a mock-up as yet — is in two halves , each with a half circle cut out . |
| 19 | I think it is important to concede that what we can loosely call the anti-antiracist position associated with sections of the new right and with populist politics has fed on crucial ambiguities in antiracist and multicultural initiatives . |
| 20 | The Working Party has met on several occasions and a research project is under way to provide all relevant background information . |
| 21 | I asked that the link road from to Lane , which had been omitted , should be included in the town plan and Councillor has written on that matter to District Council and they agreed that it should be . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The entire span of Irish Art and Architecture is examined in a book of that name by Peter Harbison , chairman of the National Monuments Advisory Council , Homan Potterton , former director of the National Gallery of Ireland , and Jeanne Sheehy who has written on Irish art ( £14.95 ) . |
| 24 | Offe has written on these issues since the early 1970s ( see Offe , 1984 ; Jessop , 1982 ; Held et al. , |
| 25 | President Carlos Salinas de Gortari has said on many occasions , in his campaign for a free-trade agreement , that if Mexico can not send its products to the United States , it will send its people instead . |
| 26 | As my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has said on many occasions in the House , the Department is more than happy to receive representations from the hon. Gentleman or anyone else about specific cases of blacklisting . |
| 27 | It has taken its PowerServer 340R and has bolted on extra communications and data storage options . |
| 28 | The Chair is obviously referring to the fact recently in the courts , there was consideration of the closure of old persons ' homes , and you know that you are under a legal requirement to consult in respect of those otherwise any decision , to close without consultation can held to be invalid , and that has impinged on some authorities who were going down that route , so there is a duty there . |
| 29 | He has struggled on social security to bring up Louis with girlfriend Debbie Blount . |
| 30 | Modern research has expanded on this foundation , drawing upon the results of aerial reconnaissance and , to a lesser extent , excavation . |