Example sentences of "we have [verb] on [art] " in BNC.

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1 We have relied on the fact that the charge distribution on cylinder 1 is uniform .
2 It 's an anomaly that a ) we want the parabear to descend safely and not too far distant , while b ) we have to rely on a fair breeze to elevate the lifting kite and carry the droppable load .
3 Whatever the rights and wrongs of this debate , the fact remains that we do not live in a perfect world and , like it or not , we have to rely on a large amount of data derived from animals .
4 We have to rely on the occasional incident of this kind occurring naturally , and study that .
5 In this mailing from the Office you will already see that a National Draw is taking place , this was planned 12 months ago to increase our income , now we have to rely on the profit to see us through the lean times .
6 We have heard on the television that there will be another and there are lots of people who are in , in absolute despair , because of what happened to their houses and their properties and their furniture and everything else and I think it is only right and proper and I can only say that West Sussex County Council has by so many people that it has
7 ‘ Being in Brighton has been beneficial to all of us , the food is good and we have trained on the Downs , ’ said Tolstikov , who could have expected more recognition at home following last year 's London win but instead found life harder , not better .
8 Despite this finding , the two classes of junction we have created on the basis of their phosphorus chemical shift can not be clearly distinguished in terms of the energetics of the B I -B II transition .
9 When we have decided on a root , then the tree automatically becomes directed : Each arc is given an arrow pointing away from the root , as in Figure 4 .
10 If we have decided on a moderate degree of modulation , it is well to know what is most effective and what subsequent progressions ( to return to the tonic ) are good .
11 We have decided on the cuts as a result of strong competition from Mercury , whose prices until now have been around 20 per cent lower than ours . ’
12 We have to take on the people that are necessary to deliver the services .
13 In other words , not only do we not have in front of us an exact cost for the works that are being voted through in this Bill — we have to go on the basis of an outdated figure of £1.4 billion , which is in itself an enormous amount — but the Government are saying that they do not have the foggiest idea whether the amount involved will accord with their investment criteria .
14 ‘ Have we not all , ’ he heard himself saying from the pulpit , ‘ as we have gazed on the ruins of the mighty Colosseum … = ’ Well , a few more of his congregation would have done that by then .
15 The decisions that we have made on the interior and justice portfolio — to deal with terrorism more closely in an intergovernmental agreement — open up the possibility of much greater co-operation against terrorism .
16 Let us assume that we have fixed on a particular language .
17 It is for instance a continuous and powerfully effective factor in the change of lexical meaning ; and as it happens , we have touched on a syntactic case in this very chapter , in the development of fixed relative order for classes of adjectives in prenominal position ( cf. , too , the emergence of " characteristic " and " occasion " values for prenominals and postnominals , respectively ) .
18 ‘ For some time now we have operated on a customer-led basis , ’ explained Paul .
19 Perhaps we have hit on the real reason for scheduling … land ear-marked for government use but no one else 's ?
20 To link things up we have to act on the information rather than wait for the information to act on us .
21 In fact it is not — it is a gloss which we have imposed on the accounts and stories they have provided .
22 Here we have stumbled on the first of many .
23 We have concentrated on the three most important diagnostic signs : upward or downward straggle in individual batches ( figure 11.2 ) , wedge-shaped data where batches with higher medians have greater spread ( figure 11.3 ) , and curvy lines in a scatterplot ( figure 11.11 ) .
24 In the first half of this book we have concentrated on the discovery and history of Madeira , its social and economic development , together with a description of its topography .
25 So far we have concentrated on the meaning of specific symbols .
26 So far we have concentrated on the internal distribution of power .
27 In this chapter we have concentrated on the officially designated inservice development identified with the Inservice Panel set up by the Project Coordinating Team .
28 It is sadly not practicable to feature all the 200 plus entries to the competition so we have concentrated on the four teams who received gold awards in the finals .
29 Only when we have settled on the perfect sauce will — Ah , Egbert ! ’
30 ‘ Still , eh , we have to concentrate on the future .
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