Example sentences of "has [verb] [adv] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A convoy of vintage Rolls-Royce cars has set out on a nostalgic journey . |
| 4 | The analysis of authority has concentrated exclusively on a one-to-one relation between an authority and a single person subject to it . |
| 5 | ‘ Your mother has gone off on a little holiday , ’ he had announced vaguely and Katherine had returned to New York and to school . |
| 6 | Railway enthusiasts , understandably , have let off steam about the matter and say the town has lost out on a major tourist opportunity . |
| 7 | PAUL Gascoigne has splashed out on a secret honeymoon for his sister . |
| 8 | The club 's Jarrow born manager Jimmy Mullen ( Backtrack , December 10 ) was obliged to send a deputy to last Friday 's manager of the year awards the entire team has shoved off on a sponsored fortnight in Bermuda . |