Example sentences of "have [be] [adj] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often musical ideas and phrases were taken from western records , which it has been possible to buy on the black market at high prices ( for ⅕ of the average monthly wage ) . |
| 2 | Because British intelligence has been reluctant to spy on a legitimately elected government and has also been forbidden from keeping ministers under surveillance , MI5 has welcomed the CIA 's intervention and given it a free rein in its British operations , always provided that it can share the resulting information . |
| 3 | It was already making such good progress that it 's been able to grow and improve in spite of so much petty interference as the Labour Group has been able to put on it . |
| 4 | that is more than Mark Enson and Mark Nicholas earned from their benefits , more even than Kenny Dalglish has been able to spend on building up Blackburn Rovers into a middle-of-the-table Second Division team . |
| 5 | As a result BIS has been able to focus on service provision and customer care and support , and the development of an attractive portfolio of gateways to third party services . |
| 6 | It has been difficult to decide on a speciality for the whole country and the Comlon Board has accepted that regional differences may require a change in attitude . |
| 7 | There has been some focusing on why people may not be able to come to a CAB and which groups may be affected . |
| 8 | Since then he has been busy working on a medical book about brain tumours in a bid to increase public awareness and raise vital funds for research . |
| 9 | ‘ A company which has grown in the past two or three years may have been unable to move to larger premises , partly because it has been unable to pass on its present lease . |
| 10 | The fact that it would have been tricky to die on a hill with more people around than at a Harrods sale , unless I 'd packed a gun and some razor blades , was irrelevant . |
| 11 | Other companies might have been prepared to rest on the laurels earned by the Clio and spend 1992 consolidating . |
| 12 | He claims that Mr Maitland should have been able to rely on the references and should be compensated for the full amount plus lost interest . |
| 13 | They should have been able to live on that , but Teck was worried about losing his status at court if he did . |
| 14 | In the same period , kin links were an important mechanism for recruiting labour , and so living in the parental household would have given young people increased chances of finding work , as well as providing them with accommodation which they might not have been able to afford on their own . |
| 15 | The secret is how to listen to this inner voice without which the Holy Ones would not have been able to pass on the messages they had been given . |
| 16 | In any case , the DES realized that it would have been unrealistic to insist on the receipt of fully-fledged regional plans before giving its blessing to well-founded initiatives being undertaken by institutions in the context of developing regional plans for the training of full-time staff . |
| 17 | Boy would have been happiest to stand on the end of a pier from which big ships , real proper ocean ships , embarked ; but he would have settled for just an ordinary pier , a small one — so long as it was big enough for him to walk away from the city , into the wind , turn his back on everything and stand there looking west at an empty sea , or a far horizon , and think about America , or somewhere . |
| 18 | But for the present it will suffice to say that on this matter Lanfranc , no less than Anselm , would seem to have been content to rely on the tradition of the Canterbury monks , supported by documents which gave historical support to the testimony of the living word . |
| 19 | During the Iran-Iraq war , Iraq appears occasionally to have been able to draw on a US coverage to chart the movements of Iranian forces . |
| 20 | In the minutes of 1847 , Mr Alfred D. Blott is described as the senior of the two ‘ Station Clerks ’ , he had been first appointed on 18 September 1838 , the day after the final section of the L & B Railway was opened . |
| 21 | Proceedings had been due to resume on Monday next week , but the commission was on standby to travel down over the weekend if necessary if there was an improvement in his client 's health . |
| 22 | The trial had been due to begin on Jan. 28 , but was delayed after Noriega 's lawyers claimed that the prosecution had used procedures which threatened to deny the defendant a fair trial . |
| 23 | The Pact for Economic Stability and Growth [ see p. 37078 ] , which had been due to expire on March 31 , 1990 , was on Dec. 4 , 1989 , extended until July 31 , 1990 . |
| 24 | The mandate of the provisional President , Joseph Nerette , which had been due to expire on Jan. 8 after a three-month term , was extended indefinitely [ see p. 38523 ] . |
| 25 | Azeri pressure was also said to be behind Turkey 's decision not to go ahead with deliveries of electricity amounting to 30-35 Mw per day , which had been due to start on Dec. 1 . |
| 26 | Poring over the sparse details lie had been obliged to enter on his landing card . |
| 27 | Five of these six idiopathic patients had been difficult to control on acid inhibitory treatment . |
| 28 | Even if they had been willing to rely on relatives , they could not do so ( Anderson , 1977 ) . |
| 29 | Since those days I have sometimes wished that I had been able to record on tape the conversations I had with Gilbert Harding , who was an intellectual . |
| 30 | On the eve of their presentation to the Women 's International Professional Council , a group of British tennis writers , plus two from France , were summoned to hear Gerry Smith suggest that all they really wanted to do was to give the women players the same sort of voice in the game as the men ; that they had no intention of tearing the women 's game apart and that if they had been able to carry on negotiations quietly and in confidence , there would have been no problems . |