Example sentences of "has [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain has reneged on a 1989 agreement to use Flue Gas Desulphurisation ( FGD ) equipment on at least 12,000 MW of power stations . |
| 2 | ‘ I always rated Pally at Ayresome Park , but there is no doubt he has blossomed on a bigger stage . |
| 3 | The company will also be estopped if the transferee has relied on a false statement in his transferor 's certificate that the transferor was the registered holder of the shares on the date stated in the certificate . |
| 4 | Because of this , the National Retreat Movement has decided on a new form of membership — Parish Membership . |
| 5 | It leaves less to the discretion of the court and has decided on a maximum sentence of just five years . |
| 6 | An inquest has opened on a brilliant student found hanging in her room at an Oxford college . |
| 7 | An inquest has opened on a young girl , who it 's alleged was murdered by her father . |
| 8 | Over the past 12 years , Media Action has broadcast on a wide range of health issues . |
| 9 | Maidstone Prison has embarked on a long and costly process to bring integral sanitation to cells , to avoid the ‘ slopping out ’ process and the need to have chamber pots in cells . |
| 10 | BDO Binder Hamlyn ( phone 071–489 9000 ) has recently expanded its investment management service and has embarked on a joint venture with Matheson Investment managers to give a broader base and access to greater research and expertise . |
| 11 | WALLASEY-based same-day courier service Mercury Express has embarked on a national expansion . |
| 12 | The Community has agreed on a broad definition of the trap as : " a device designed to restrain or capture an animal by means of jaws which close tightly upon one or more of the animal 's limbs " . |
| 13 | In attempting to deal with the observable and measurable aspects of leadership behaviour , and perhaps to simplify for normative purposes , leadership research has focused on a narrow set of styles — democratic , autocratic , and laissez-faire , for example . |
| 14 | The anthropologist 's appetite for information and his curiosity are boundless , and he is naturally particularly attracted by those avenues of inquiry where the answers come hard , suggesting that he has touched on a sensitive and hence significant vein . |
| 15 | The Oxford postgraduate student has hit on a novel way of studying moths on his forthcoming trip to Sumatra . |
| 16 | The Oxford postgraduate student has hit on a novel way of studying moths on his forthcoming trip to Sumatra . |
| 17 | This applies even if one of you , unknown to the other , has gone on a mad spending spree . |
| 18 | Some replica coaches were also made and ‘ Iron Duke ’ has run on a temporary track in Hyde Park , at Didcot and on a short length of track at the National Railway Museum . |
| 19 | The noise and vibration team led by Bill Stubbs has worked on a diverse range of projects from planning permissions for private opencast coal mining companies to th study of noise from Hartlepool Rugby Club . |
| 20 | In an American context , E. D. Hirsch has remarked on a similar conflict of interest between students who want to know the basic meanings of texts , in their historical contexts , and junior academics who believe there are no basic meanings , only a multiplicity of interpretations . |
| 21 | The Ness Historical Society has focussed on a small group of six unemployed young people who have gone round the villages collecting tape recordings and photographs relating specifically to past modes of employment and to emigration . |
| 22 | The spread of the HIV virus has continued on a massive scale throughout the decade , to the point where fears of a global depopulation of Black Death proportions have come to seem more plausible . |
| 23 | It might be a company with financial problems but ITN has put on a glitzier show . |
| 24 | DURATION : You certainly can not hope to see all that Amsterdam has to offer on a two night stay so either be selective or maybe stay longer . |
| 25 | WORK has started on a major business and housing development in north Essex . |
| 26 | And on its site , work has started on a new multi purpose complex which is the latest phase in the revitalisation of the village . |
| 27 | Rebecca 's body has already rejected two kidneys , and she has to rely on a daily cocktail of drugs |
| 28 | He has lived on a collective farm in Ukraine since 1945 but was flown back to France by a French television station . |
| 29 | However , he has insisted on a better system of debtor management with a proper analysis of debtor accounts and a tighter credit policy , has required full explanations of any discounted room rates or complimentaries and has introduced spot checks to compare the Housekeeper 's reports and Reception 's daily letting reports . |
| 30 | Since then , it has survived on a one-off grant from the Scottish Office and money donated by private trusts , but these too have run out . |