Example sentences of "have [verb] [to-vb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the PNC Declaration of Independence constituted a major landmark in this process , the time has come to embark on another major step , that of declaring the setting up of a state or government structure . |
| 2 | The Bank has decided to capitalise on short term difficulties by attempting to diminish staff terms and conditions . |
| 3 | Russian airline Aeroflot , which started its Stansted to St Petersburg twice-weekly flights on March 28 , has had to lay on extra flights for tomorrow . |
| 4 | The community has had to rely on occasional ferry trips in fine weather and flights on tiny Islander planes , operated by Loganair , for four years . |
| 5 | But because there is no legal requirement to deposit records ( as with books ) the institute has had to rely on voluntary donations over the years . |
| 6 | The company has had to take on ten extra staff to make up the order . |
| 7 | The nouveaux romanciers themselves have been reluctant to embrace the term , which has tended to occur on those occasions when parallels are bring drawn with novelists in other countries , as at the New York nouveau roman conference in 1982 which many of them attended and which also saw the participation of several leading American postmodernists . |
| 8 | In its first rôle , it has tended to concentrate on low-technology businesses which are managed with a close eye on reducing costs and generating cash . |
| 9 | I noted what my right hon. Friend the Member for Aylesbury ( Sir T. Raison ) said and it is interesting that , in reply , the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent , Central ( Mr. Fisher ) has tried to sit on both sides of the fence on the difficult question of acquisitions and disposals . |
| 10 | Worldwide , the economy has continued to come on stronger than almost anyone forecast , which is why European central bankers agreed to throw another brick at it yesterday . |
| 11 | Erich Fromm , who has continued to work on both lines of development together , as psychoanalysis should , has equally unfortunately dropped the death instincts , and at times the sexual instincts , out of his work . |
| 12 | It has begun to dawn on some investors that Waste Management is set to finance its growth by acquisition through the issue of paper . |
| 13 | Though Alner has failed to finish on both occasions he has ridden Seven of Diamonds this season , the horse won at the two previous meetings on this afternoon 's course , when partnered by Malcolm Batters . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , as will be seen from both Precedent 1 and Precedent 2 , neither the buyer nor the seller has chosen to rely on this maxim . |
| 15 | Often this higher return corresponds to that which the holder would have expected to receive on non-convertible debt . |
| 16 | Often this higher return corresponds to that which the holder would have expected to receive on non-convertible debt . |
| 17 | Alex Barr of Payment Services showed the London Press the £45,000 the Bank would have expected to lose on 31,000 cards over 18 months . |
| 18 | The gridded diagrams show very clearly that an Edwardian cyclist , lacking the eighteen gears of a modern mountain-bike , would have had to dismount on several occasions along the Earsdon Mill ( West Linkhall section of the route ) . |
| 19 | ‘ In what way ? ’ he asked softly , his tone completely changed , as if he knew they had come to tread on sensitive ground . |
| 20 | The following day , Jan. 14 , however , State Department spokesperson Margaret Tutweiler described as a " definite change of position " the strict neutrality the US administration had decided to adopt on this question . |
| 21 | Erm but then weighing things up I 've got to reflect on that one . |
| 22 | ‘ You mean we 've got to go on that ? ’ he said . |
| 23 | You 've got to concentrate on financial control , on your customer and on your people . |
| 24 | Barbara Cartland , you know , who really cares , so long as you 're sort of thinking right , I 've got to concentrate on this , because you know , have this different way of going about things . |
| 25 | ‘ Now I 've got work to do and you 've got to stay on that bed . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've got to work on some stuff for an article , ’ she said . |
| 27 | The national park covers an astonishing 840 square miles — I 've tended to concentrate on northern Snowdonia and even there have barely scraped the surface . |
| 28 | According to Subaire the new party would serve Moslems in the enclave who for years had had to rely on other parties to include Moslem representatives among their candidates . |
| 29 | If evolutionary progress had had to rely on single-step selection , it would never have got anywhere . |
| 30 | He himself would have been desperately pushed if he had had to manage on two-thirds of his salary until Christmas every year . |