Example sentences of "have [verb] [to-vb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the light of the various responses , the Board has decided to concentrate on specialist franchising . |
| 2 | It has decided to concentrate on laboratory services instead . |
| 3 | The control room , although just workable , is very cramped ( especially as it has had to take on committee work ) . |
| 4 | Here the Committee has preferred to rely on speculation about hypothetical problems rather than on the unchallenged evidence that employed solicitors have conducted cases for years in the lower courts without complaint . |
| 5 | As to the type of employment the interesting feature that I experienced over the last two to three years as shown is that the inquiry level the type of inquiries has tended to focus on manufacturing and the attraction has been the quality of the work force , that is both in skill and its healthiness you know the liability and there are other issues in there too about where Britain is at these days in terms of immunisation wage levels , but it is the people that are themselves the major attractors so the potential work force in the locality that is the major attractor . |
| 6 | John Evans has covered cricket , football , rugby , tennis , swimming and many other sporting events in the past , but in the last five years has tended to concentrate on athletics . |
| 7 | He would soon use these newly acquired talents in the play Jimmy Shine , but the only time in which he has attempted to sing on film were in his two biggest turkeys — Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me ? and Ishtar . |
| 8 | In particular it has attempted to take on board community aspirations and local authority plans rather than ride roughshod over local wishes . |
| 9 | ‘ The boss has refused to appear on television 's Football Focus because they are angling it as Dalglish v Keegan and , in reality , it 's all about the 22 players , ’ said Keegan 's assistant Terry McDermott . |
| 10 | For over a hundred years , penal policy in this country has appeared to focus on custody . |
| 11 | Now Oslear is wondering if the truth will ever come out — especially as ICC supremo Sir Colin Cowdrey has failed to comment on match referee Deryck Murray 's report and on the umpires ' official findings . |
| 12 | And there was virtually no sign of people paying cash when they would really have preferred to buy on credit . |
| 13 | That was how he had come to go on board the Santa Maria del Sud . |
| 14 | The trade union representing the workforce at these plants had threatened to go on strike if their jobs are put at risk . |
| 15 | obviously we 've got to work together on all , are you listening to me ? , on all the different parts of the body , you want them all to come alive , okay , so , this week as I say we 're gon na concentrate on sound , sound , sound , sound , you 've got to play on sound that is the painting , I mean the , the pictures do you , alright that 's fine , at the same does n't matter we 've still got to work on different things , yeah , okay ? , erm , so , as I say we 're going to make a sound machine in different groups , now to give you an example , what I what you to do is be , I 'm going to give you a situation , give , choose a profession , okay , let's say we are in hospital , now I want you each and everyone of you in this group think of the situation , think of a sound that one might hear in a hospital , everyone to themselves just think of a sound , could be a patient screaming , it could be a heart machine , it could be , er exactly , could be that , could be absolutely anything , it could sirens , it could be anything , okay , for everyone I want you to have the sound in your head okay , everyone 's got a sound in their head ? |
| 16 | Mm you 've got to keep on top of it and keep with it . |
| 17 | Now you 've got to keep on top of what you already know . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've got to stay on top of this story ’ , said Tom . |
| 19 | Yeah , but er , this is usually you 've got to work on top of course you 've got ta |
| 20 | Whitlock had wanted to remain on duty for the banquet at the United Nations that evening but Kolchinsky had told him to call it a day . |
| 21 | We 've continued to focus on cash . |
| 22 | ‘ You have come to check on progress , gentlemen . |
| 23 | Judges are receiving firearms training from police but have threatened to go on strike as promised protection has not materialised . |
| 24 | Ticket clerks irritated by a new automated reservation system have threatened to go on strike today . |
| 25 | Classic ethnographic studies of all-male interaction have tended to focus on street gangs and ritual verbal performances , whereas studies of all-female interaction are more likely to focus on small , intimate groups . |
| 26 | Others have had to rely on government funding to keep going , although funding from the Department of the Environment through the Urban Programme has been restricted and only seven centres have been funded on a continuing basis by the Lord Chancellor 's Department , and ( fir the time being ) the Legal Aid Board . |
| 27 | Right that 's got to go on top then , if you 'll un-zip it , that 's right , did n't I ? |
| 28 | I 've got to take it back cos it 's got to go on display |
| 29 | ‘ Well , you see , Doogie 's got to work on Christmas Day — at the hotel . ’ |
| 30 | And he said we have got to get on top of there and clean all the ovens . |