Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Inland Revenue has commented further on the tax treatment of ex gratia payments made on the termination of an office or employment , as set out in Statement of Practice SP 13/91 . |
| 2 | During 1912 , when numbers had reached 172 , it was decided that entry would have to be restricted for the next year , as " the Board of Education has commented adversely on the size of several of our classes and has refused to countenance it " . |
| 3 | The industrial north of Italy , in turn , has depended heavily on a reserve army of the unemployed from the south — the more backward Mezzogiorno — and now increasingly from North Africa . |
| 4 | Even the Chancellor of Oxford University , Roy Jenkins , has to wait outside on the steps of the Clarendon buildings on a cold November morning , when the Sultan of Brunei is in town . |
| 5 | In trying to analyse the reasons for conferring upon the management of the company substantial power to run the company the law has relied heavily on a variety of conceptions of the company . |
| 6 | However , there are many in Britain who feel that the US approach , which has relied heavily on the CD4 measure in licensing other potential anti-AIDS drugs , is wrong , and that the decision to put a patient on AZT should be more broadly based , using a number of factors — including the best current estimate of likely long-term risks and benefits — rather than a simple formula . |
| 7 | In other cases , however , the court has relied more on the procedure for review laid down in the lease . |
| 8 | I was asked to refit some buttons which has come apart on a settee cushion . |
| 9 | But Romania 's official press has reported extensively on the ethnic unrest across the border , while , for example , failing to report on the radical reform and street demonstrations taking place in other Warsaw Pact countries . |
| 10 | JAMES FREEMAN , chairman of the Mid-Hants Railway plc , the company which runs the Watercress Line between Alresford and Alton , has reported favourably on the past six months trading in a briefing for shareholders and members , writes RICHARD BEAN . |
| 11 | " Heinrich has to stand here on the deck while you drone on , said Tilda . |
| 12 | The 27-year-old Spaniard , who has won twice on the US Tour in the past , added : ‘ The rough is still too high for my liking , but is not set up as difficult as I 've seen US Open courses . |
| 13 | Although headed by opposition MPs , it has grown independently on a national basis and held its first large scale rally in Colombo in late February 1991 . |
| 14 | Since its inception in 1980 , the superfund has moved slowly on the country 's 11 000 dangerous dumps . |
| 15 | A former Car of the Year winner , it has done well on the Continent but has been under-rated here . |
| 16 | In the last couple of years , Paul Merton has emerged from a tidal wave of British comic talent , that swelled at the beginning of the Eighties and continues to rain all around us , and has done so on a laugh raft all of his own . |
| 17 | The experts claim it 's not a vintage year , so the spotlight has shone firmly on the models . |
| 18 | All of which tends to confirm a belief that General Holomisa has advanced far on a scheme to forge an informal alliance with Mr Mandela and his organisation , the African National Congress . |
| 19 | It has performed superbly on the Swanage Railway where it is ideally suited to the kind of work undertaken at that location . |
| 20 | The young bird has to perch upright on the rim while it grows its feathers . |
| 21 | The new enlightenment 's assault on social democracy has focused particularly on the concept of ‘ dependency ’ . |
| 22 | During the 1980s the discussion about disparities of prosperity between different regions in the UK has focused increasingly on the issue of the North-South divide . |
| 23 | As with most artists who have become mythical personalities in the popular imagination , such attention has focused primarily on the anecdotal and tragic details of Kahlo 's admittedly fascinating life . |
| 24 | In view of the educational importance of explanation , it is surprising that so little research has focused directly on the development of children 's ability to give and understand explanations ; or on how children actually cope with explanations in the classroom . |
| 25 | To date the analysis of this has focused mainly on the roles played by these units in the MNEs ' approach to global strategy , and the administrative procedures adopted to use them effectively . |
| 26 | Since the second world war , US foreign policy has rested largely on the identification of ‘ goodies ’ and ‘ baddies ’ , in the context of global superpower . |
| 27 | The analysis of authority has concentrated exclusively on a one-to-one relation between an authority and a single person subject to it . |
| 28 | Finally , exegesis of Keynes ' work has concentrated inordinately on the ‘ model ’ of the General Theory , to the exclusion of Keynes ' earlier economic ideas and also his epistemology . |
| 29 | Moreover , conventional medicine has concentrated mainly on the treatment of chronic and acute illness , and until recent years the role of preventive medicine has suffered comparative neglect . |
| 30 | The work of the CLE to date has concentrated mainly on the problems of unemployment and inflation , and the CLE has developed a widely accepted framework for looking at those subjects . |