Example sentences of "had [vb pp] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This unequal but in general legitimated social hierarchy had depended on a healthy capitalist economy and benign , prosperous welfare State . |
| 2 | The appeal to the EAT was based on the issue of whether the Tribunal had relied on a correct statement of the law when it referred to an excerpt from Harvey on Industrial Relations and Employment Law ( based on the EAT decision in Richmond Precision Engineering v Pearce ( [ 1985 ] IRLR 179 ) which stated that ‘ [ t ] he crucial question is whether the terms offered were those which a reasonable employer could offer ’ . |
| 3 | Marx and Engels , like all their contemporaries , including anthropologists and archaeologists and Morgan in particular , felt that information gained about contemporary peoples whose life depended on a simple technology was valid for understanding the social institutions of prehistoric populations who had relied on a similar technology . |
| 4 | All were owned by the city of Weimar which , unable to afford the insurance premium , had relied on a private security firm and improved alarms to guard the valuable works . |
| 5 | They had stopped on a small rise , at Bernice 's insistence , to compare stories and devise plans . |
| 6 | The demonstrators had marched on a key pumping station at the start of the " Friendship Pipeline " which carried oil from Tatarstan 's oilfields to eastern Europe , and amid chants of " Tatar oil for Tatarstan " they had attempted to put it out of action . |
| 7 | We had done a lot of hard motoring through three countries and , although we had by no means seen all of the Scandinavian birds , we had achieved more than I had expected on a first trip . |
| 8 | During a raid in March she heard that a bomb had dropped on a burning building , killing six firemen and injuring others . |
| 9 | Mr and Mrs Harper had sat in their respective armchairs , Marge had sat on a red leather pouffe and she , Steve and Cliff had occupied the two-seater settee of the three-piece suite . |
| 10 | This was a clear breach of the understanding on which he had come on a joint mission to the pope . |
| 11 | The parlour had come on a long way since I was a boy . |
| 12 | The Vicar 's wife , who had parked on a yellow line while her gay husband went into the shop to get a treacle tart , got such a shock when Wayne stuck his big , hairy white face in through the window that she jumped out and ran away . |
| 13 | Indeed , my father 's face had gone a dull reddish colour , like no colour I had seen on a living being . |
| 14 | I was also misled by work I had done on a simple model of the universe in which the collapsing phase looked like the time reverse of the expanding phase . |
| 15 | They had accepted their invitations only in order to disrupt the proceedings , as they had done on a previous occasion in 1953 . |
| 16 | But someone had built on a large extension to the rear and this housed the kitchen , which as Meredith was to discover , was large , modern and furbished it seemed with every kind of modern gadget . |
| 17 | The President had seen the polls forecasting heavy defeat and had decided on a high-profile last-ditch effort to free the Iranian hostages . |
| 18 | She put him down as the little grey man had foretold on a huge grey granite stone , pitted and scarred and bald . |
| 19 | As we have seen , this had occurred on a small but steady scale since pre-Roman times but new pressures forced a rapid growth in the sixteenth century . |
| 20 | Traffic of this kind had occurred on a large scale in the period following on the October Revolution , but if there had been any ‘ bagmen ’ left by 1921–2 in the Middle Volga region , they would have been ruthlessly stamped out . |
| 21 | In the late 1520s and 1530s , Henry VIII had embarked on a spectacular , even murderous matrimonial career in an attempt to save his kingdom from the first part of that curse . |
| 22 | Aristide had embarked on a European tour on Oct. 24 , returning to the Venezuelan capital , Caracas , on Oct. 31 . |
| 23 | He had embarked on a serious and very likely dangerous undertaking which , until its conclusion , must precede anything and everything in his life . |
| 24 | The Oil Ministry announced on March 6 that damage assessment was under way and that it had embarked on a large-scale rehabilitation effort to restore buildings , pipelines and damaged reservoirs . |
| 25 | A high-level team from the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , visiting six Iranian installations on Feb. 6-13 , failed to uncover any evidence to support allegations that Iran had embarked on a covert nuclear weapons programme . |
| 26 | Whatever else divided them , the Labour leadership , the Communists ( after June 1941 ) and much of the independent left had embarked on a parallel course — promoting popular power through People 's War . |
| 27 | When she returned to Swans ' Meadow , she found Ursula had embarked on a cold-blooded drinking bout and was reluctant to accompany her into the garden , the one venue where Charlotte felt she could safely disclose what had happened . |
| 28 | He had been feeling a bit better for the last few days : He had repaired the fence between the Britches and Ron Paget 's yard , filled two black plastic sacks with rubbish and had embarked on a vigorous assault upon dead and decaying trees . |
| 29 | Starting from scratch in July 1945 , the Government had embarked on a huge legislative programme and laid the foundations for another big instalment in 1946–7 . |
| 30 | Although it may not have been related , within a month he had crashed on a bad weather approach , killing himself and his friend . |