Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your equipment has to go outside on open roads or gravelled surfaces , remember castors are not always suitable . |
| 2 | Boswell 's description of the location corresponds with today 's scenery : wild heathland has altered little on Skye : ‘ The country around is a black dreary moor on all sides , except to the sea-coast , towards which there is a view through a valley … the place itself is green ground , being well drained , by means of a deep glen on each side , in both of which there runs a rivulet with a good quantity of water , forming several cascades which make a considerable appearance and sound . ’ |
| 3 | Walton has commented usefully on this , arguing that the use of the phrase ‘ the best interests of the child ’ has often confused rather than helped child care debates , creating the illusion that these interests constitute an objective fact . |
| 4 | The Inland Revenue has commented further on the tax treatment of ex gratia payments made on the termination of an office or employment , as set out in Statement of Practice SP 13/91 . |
| 5 | During 1912 , when numbers had reached 172 , it was decided that entry would have to be restricted for the next year , as " the Board of Education has commented adversely on the size of several of our classes and has refused to countenance it " . |
| 6 | The industrial north of Italy , in turn , has depended heavily on a reserve army of the unemployed from the south — the more backward Mezzogiorno — and now increasingly from North Africa . |
| 7 | The pattern of male involvement , however , has depended primarily on social class with important regional and national variations . |
| 8 | Even the Chancellor of Oxford University , Roy Jenkins , has to wait outside on the steps of the Clarendon buildings on a cold November morning , when the Sultan of Brunei is in town . |
| 9 | A provision could therefore be included in the contract that the buyer has not made its purpose known , has relied exclusively on its own skill and judgment , or that the seller claims no expertise in relation to the suitability of the goods for any stated purpose . |
| 10 | OVER the last four decades , man has relied increasingly on powerful armoury of chemicals in the war against pests . |
| 11 | Mr. Lloyd , however , has relied strongly on passages in the judgment of Slade L.J . |
| 12 | In order to finance expansion on this scale , the government has relied heavily on payments and other inputs from the community . |
| 13 | Guatemala has relied heavily on external aid , especially from the United States , though this was suspended for a time under the Carter administration because of Guatemala 's human rights record . |
| 14 | However , there are many in Britain who feel that the US approach , which has relied heavily on the CD4 measure in licensing other potential anti-AIDS drugs , is wrong , and that the decision to put a patient on AZT should be more broadly based , using a number of factors — including the best current estimate of likely long-term risks and benefits — rather than a simple formula . |
| 15 | In trying to analyse the reasons for conferring upon the management of the company substantial power to run the company the law has relied heavily on a variety of conceptions of the company . |
| 16 | For manufactured goods , Malaysia has relied heavily on attracting foreigners to its Export processing Zones ( see below ) and letting them fight it out in the exports markets with the minimum of intervention . |
| 17 | In considering this question , Rhodes relates it specifically to the case of the UK : ‘ prominence is given to manufacturing only because Britain , as most other advanced countries , has relied heavily on manufacturing activities as a source of net exports and employment ’ ( 1986 , p. 139 ) . |
| 18 | Traditionally , the profession has relied heavily on public works ; 25 years ago , more than half of all new commissions were funded by the public purse . |
| 19 | She has relied more on her Policy Unit and ad hoc groups , and intervened more in departments . |
| 20 | In other cases , however , the court has relied more on the procedure for review laid down in the lease . |
| 21 | I was asked to refit some buttons which has come apart on a settee cushion . |
| 22 | But Romania 's official press has reported extensively on the ethnic unrest across the border , while , for example , failing to report on the radical reform and street demonstrations taking place in other Warsaw Pact countries . |
| 23 | JAMES FREEMAN , chairman of the Mid-Hants Railway plc , the company which runs the Watercress Line between Alresford and Alton , has reported favourably on the past six months trading in a briefing for shareholders and members , writes RICHARD BEAN . |
| 24 | " Heinrich has to stand here on the deck while you drone on , said Tilda . |
| 25 | We camp Lappish style in a lavvu that Tor , he of the wall-to-wall shoulders , has paddled here on his deck . |
| 26 | The 27-year-old Spaniard , who has won twice on the US Tour in the past , added : ‘ The rough is still too high for my liking , but is not set up as difficult as I 've seen US Open courses . |
| 27 | He is going through a dry patch at the moment as he has won only on match in the five tournaments he has played so far this year but I am sure he will work his way back again , he has got it in him . |
| 28 | Although headed by opposition MPs , it has grown independently on a national basis and held its first large scale rally in Colombo in late February 1991 . |
| 29 | Such regulations did not in themselves stop inhumane treatment , but they heralded a movement that has grown steadily on each side of the North Atlantic , both in numbers of its adherents and its influence on legislation . |
| 30 | ‘ If frustration level has anything to do with [ creating ghosts ] , then Bird is our man , ’ said Karen Foerstel , who has written extensively on Capitol ghosts . |