Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your equipment has to go outside on open roads or gravelled surfaces , remember castors are not always suitable . |
| 2 | The pattern of male involvement , however , has depended primarily on social class with important regional and national variations . |
| 3 | OVER the last four decades , man has relied increasingly on powerful armoury of chemicals in the war against pests . |
| 4 | Guatemala has relied heavily on external aid , especially from the United States , though this was suspended for a time under the Carter administration because of Guatemala 's human rights record . |
| 5 | For manufactured goods , Malaysia has relied heavily on attracting foreigners to its Export processing Zones ( see below ) and letting them fight it out in the exports markets with the minimum of intervention . |
| 6 | Traditionally , the profession has relied heavily on public works ; 25 years ago , more than half of all new commissions were funded by the public purse . |
| 7 | He is the co-author of Le Verre Structurel and has written extensively on international architecture . |
| 8 | More recently , reforestation has occurred naturally on abandoned farm terraces where grazing pressures have been low . |
| 9 | The Wyvern production has drawn heavily on local talent . |
| 10 | It is a curious comment on Thatcherism , however , that the administration most committed to a reduction in the role of the state , and in the need for an independent private sector , has spent more on specific urban regeneration and employment schemes and incentives to private investment in urban areas than any other in recent history . |
| 11 | This discussion has focused mainly on postoperative analgesia , but the question of providing more general pain relief , particularly for ventilated infants , must also be considered . |
| 12 | CSTR actively collaborates with the Departments of Artificial Intelligence , Physics , Electrical Engineering and Linguistics and its research has focused chiefly on automatic speech recognition , systems for generating speech from text , and speaker recognition and verification . |
| 13 | This is similar to optical character recognition ( OCR ) which has concentrated mostly on machine-printed characters , although there has been some effort on handwriting as well . |
| 14 | The literature on home-school-community relations has concentrated mainly on parental participation in school , rather than on school participation in the ‘ communities ’ of the school . |
| 15 | Wilson has worked mainly on Carboniferous faunas collected from surface exposures and boreholes . |
| 16 | The argument has to rely either on imperfect information about the predator 's costs , so that price cutting is a means of building a reputation for being efficient , or on a ‘ deep pocket ’ story where the predator has access to either internal or external funds to finance its activities ( Bolton and Scharfstein , 1990 ) . |
| 17 | But it has to rely entirely on public donations . |
| 18 | I have a lifelong experience of banking , and have had to act constantly on personal judgment . |
| 19 | I would argue with the author on the merits of the wing-down as opposed to the crab cross-wind landing techniques , and feel that he should have concentrated less on right-hand tractor American rotation engines , but other than that I ca n't fault him , and would class the book as absolutely required for anyone aspiring to be a tailwheel instructor . |
| 20 | If the system were to recover from such poor bottom-up information , it would have to rely heavily on syntactic and semantic constraints . |
| 21 | I spoke to Jean Collis , coordinator of Bassetlaw MIND ( the local branch of the national association for mental health ) , who was worried that people with chronic depression and anxiety would have to rely increasingly on voluntary organisations for help . |
| 22 | The country will soon be without a viable coal industry , he said , and will have to rely increasingly on imported energy supplies . |
| 23 | In France , for instance , a country not included in the comparison , the bursts of activity and membership growth — interspersed with long periods of relative dormancy — seem to have depended more on political events ( as in 1936 , 1947 , and post-1968 ) than upon changing economic circumstances ( Sellier , 1978 ) . |
| 24 | Thus Cameron Hall Developments , who built the Gates head Metro Centre , seem to have done so on borrowed money and to have sold out to the Church Commissioners , although they remain in charge of operations . |
| 25 | They are almost in the category of honourable scars , and even some testimony to the quality of the text , since the larvae of the several types of beetle engaged in the battle seem to have thrived best on old and scholarly works , especially incunabula . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've relied more on commercial baby foods for Jake because they 're quick and convenient . |
| 27 | Travelling all day yesterday , she had subsisted solely on British Rail sandwiches and her supper had consisted only of the cereal and milk she 'd bought at a small general store in the nearest hamlet . |
| 28 | In varying degrees these had rich Jacobean and baroque interiors in contrast to the simple interiors in contrast to the simple interiors of the 1820s and 1830s which had depended largely on rich marble Louis chimney-pieces and high quality papers . |
| 29 | In this way there was in human history a cumulative build up of knowledge and success in adaptation to the environment which made human beings very quick to adapt to new problems — much more easily and quickly than if they had depended only on genetic transmission . |
| 30 | The previous year her chief secretary had travelled home on black ice and thick snow . |