Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | McDonnell Douglas Corp has given up on its idea of floating its McDonnell Douglas Information Systems International Ltd Pick and Pick-under-Unix business on the London International Stock Exchange , and instead has agreed in principle to sell it to its management , who will retain effective day-to-day control , backed by a few blue-chip investors including Baring Capital Investors Ltd . |
| 2 | This does n't mean that ICL has given up on the Texas Instruments Inc Sparc line , simply that it can now pick and choose from the two superscalar implementations on offer , says Mike Coote . |
| 3 | Iris Murdoch 's fiction has centred rather on a search for goodness , most often by means of loving relationships ; Amis 's with a sense of decorum and indecorum — with social habits and rules made , altered and broken by the changing generations . |
| 4 | More recently , reforestation has occurred naturally on abandoned farm terraces where grazing pressures have been low . |
| 5 | SHELL has lost out on an oil bonanza worth at least £1 billion through a decision to cut its stake in exploration territory west of Shetland . |
| 6 | Hewlett-Packard Co has swung back on the offensive in the US with a predatory enhanced workstation trade-in programme , which it says accepts the broadest range of workstations , personal computers and X terminals in part exchange for new Precision Architecture RISC workstations and X stations . |
| 7 | Ishida Aerospace has picked up on an Eighties Cold War idea generated by the US military , which has financed the design , construction and flight testing of a propeller-driven VTOL plane , namely the Osprey , whose features were shown in your illustration . |
| 8 | Traditionally , language teaching has concentrated only on the three levels of the formal language system — pronunciation , grammar , and vocabulary — and the way in which they function within the sentence , on the assumption that other aspects of communication will follow fairly automatically . |
| 9 | " Heinrich has to stand here on the deck while you drone on , said Tilda . |
| 10 | Violence has erupted again on an estate which has been plagued by joyriders . |
| 11 | Labour has campaigned strongly on its £1 billion ‘ recovery package ’ while Mr Lilley , a firm believer in Thatcherite non-intervention , has had to rely on promises that recovery is just around the corner . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So far the WACC Forum Programme has concentrated only on two or three aspects under this heading , namely , communication and theology , the electronic church and the introduction of communication studies in theological education . |
| 14 | WordPerfect has given up on the Wild West theme in favour of giving away peagreen baseball hats . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | A convoy of vintage Rolls-Royce cars has set out on a nostalgic journey . |
| 17 | But the blanket screening has backfired badly on the Department of Defense in Dublin . |
| 18 | BUILDING tycoon Sir Lawrie Barratt has given up on Chancellor Norman Lamont 's feeble attempts to halt the recession . |
| 19 | ‘ Salamanca has cut back on its staff , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Just when that dream person is deciding to redial your number he or she is in for a surprise — the second sitting has moved in on your table . |
| 21 | Dynacord 's bass research has concentrated largely on speaker technology , and these units represent the company 's answer to the relatively slow response characteristics of speakers in the low frequency range . |
| 22 | CSTR actively collaborates with the Departments of Artificial Intelligence , Physics , Electrical Engineering and Linguistics and its research has focused chiefly on automatic speech recognition , systems for generating speech from text , and speaker recognition and verification . |
| 23 | In view of the educational importance of explanation , it is surprising that so little research has focused directly on the development of children 's ability to give and understand explanations ; or on how children actually cope with explanations in the classroom . |
| 24 | Ahead , her father 's horse had pecked slightly on landing , throwing his rider up his neck . |
| 25 | He was entitled to his moment of pride ; shooting had gone well on the set of The Viking — astonishingly well considering it had been done on a ludicrously small budget and with television crews much more accustomed to slapstick children 's shows than gritty drama . |
| 26 | Standardised tests had shown that ‘ whereas his two older brothers had scored better on verbal ability than on visual motor ability , Balbinder had performed equally poorly on both ’ . |
| 27 | The penetrating grey eyes had narrowed thoughtfully on her pale face . |
| 28 | He seemed unoffended , though his eyes had narrowed thoughtfully on her . |
| 29 | The most telling accounts were to be seen in the local press whose journalists had gone along on routine reporting assignments and tried to come to terms with the decidedly un-pop star look of the performers on stage . |
| 30 | Blood had congealed thickly on the end of the smashed fibula . |