Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the scale of each consultation exercise , and the make–up of the consultation list has differed depending on the topic in question , there are a number of key tasks which have to be carried out . |
| 2 | Life or death has come to depend on the proper functioning or malfunctioning of super-sensitive equipment over a couple of seconds . |
| 3 | Jip tells of something he has seen written on a wall : ‘ If the human brain was simple enough for us to understand we 'd be so simple we could n't ’ ( 88 ) . |
| 4 | To rectify this and to make sure the Concert Halls can promote themselves as a fully-fledged venue , the board has decided to embark on the final refurbishment step . |
| 5 | Because it is not one of the more imposing buildings for which public funds are more readily available , it has had to rely on the care and attention of those who live around it and they are among the poorer people of the city . |
| 6 | Ironside , who joined Boro for £40,000 in the close season , has agreed to return on a month 's loan . |
| 7 | And whereas the said John Weston Foakes has requested the said Julia Beer to give him time in which to pay such judgment , which she has agreed to do on the following conditions . |
| 8 | The millionaire Boss has agreed to appear on a new TV programme called Takeover , which highlights an outlawed squatter group who have seized buildings in eight US cities for use by the homeless . |
| 9 | In the past few years the appeal system has been successfully used to overcome the resistance of reluctant local authorities , and development has tended to proceed on an ad hoc basis with new centres sited where developers can acquire land easily rather than on the basis of any strategic plan . |
| 10 | Finally , it may be noted — as this previous point suggests — that the account presented by Parsons and others has tended to dwell on the eu functions ( positive functions ) at the expense of the negative or dys functions of this pattern of family living . |
| 11 | While in the United States the unfolding tale of corruption and mismanagement at the EPA has tended to focus on the usual mainstays of White House interference and ‘ sweet-heart ’ deals with past industrial employers , little attention has been paid to the Lysenkoist assaults of the Reagan administration on the EPA 's scientific integrity . |
| 12 | The majority of research has tended to focus on the pattern recognition level , with the higher level processes being progressively of lesser interest . |
| 13 | In the specific context of developing strategies for increasing teacher effectiveness , the importance of this personal dimension has often been neglected , at least in the U.K. Thus teacher education has tended to focus on the needs of children or the needs of the institution , rather than the individual needs and motivations ( including career motivations ) of teachers . |
| 14 | While much previous research by geographers , economists , sociologists and planners has tended to focus on the cases and consequences of industrial decline in the conurbations of northern Britain and London , this research attempts to break new ground both in examining the cause of economic growth and prosperity in southern England and in seeking to assess the extent to which the benefits of growth have been equally shared amongst different segments of the population in such areas . |
| 15 | As the term ‘ socialisation ’ suggests this research has tended to concentrate on the macro-level , emphasising the influence of the social structure on the individual . |
| 16 | THE president of Liss WI , Heather Gold , welcomed members to the recent meeting and announced that Jean Pay has volunteered to serve on the committee . |
| 17 | They have envied the power which violence has seemed to confer on the republican community , and they hope to draw attention to their alienation , too . |
| 18 | Improvements in certain allowances were made , described as divisive by the unions , but the company has refused to compromise on a reduction in the shorter working week . |
| 19 | British Rail Engineering has refused to comment on the award . |
| 20 | Carmen Callil said : ‘ I 've been working with Frances Coady since 1986 , when she joined Jonathan Cape , and one of the greatest pleasures of my working life has been to observe the publishing genius she has brought to beat on the creation of Vintage . |
| 21 | One of the last jobs of Leicester serviceman Taffy he retires shortly has involved working on a machine of the type he first handled fifty years ago when he joined the B U. |
| 22 | Throughout the year the Committee has continued to meet on a fortnightly basis to consider not just those issues referred to above but many others . |
| 23 | The agency adds : ‘ Determined to reduce the influence of conservationist non-governmental organisations on CITES and its partners , Lapointe has delivered CITES on a silver platter to the poachers and smugglers . ’ |
| 24 | The local valuation office has declined to comment on the matter , although the Inland Revenue said mistakes were inevitable in such a huge valuation market . |
| 25 | Over the last two years , however , it can hardly have escaped your notice that a new software application called desktop publishing has begun to appear on the scene . |
| 26 | Over the millennia , nature has learnt to capitalise on the abundance of iron and its mild reactivity to perform many important biochemical reactions , these include oxygen transport , which depends on the iron maintaining its Fe(II) oxidation state , to bioredox catalysis ( for example in the production of metabolic energy ) where iron rapidly undergoes reversible oxidation state changes . |
| 27 | The horse has evolved to walk on the tip of the equivalent of the third finger in the human hand : the other ‘ fingers ’ have been lost in evolution . |
| 28 | Red faces at Hoesch , a German steel and engineering group , because its supervisory board has failed to agree on a new chief executive , and will now have to look outside . |
| 29 | Indeed , it appears that in terms of its expected percentage vote the Right has failed to capitalise on the electorate 's wish to punish the ruling Socialists . |
| 30 | Foster City , California-based Blyth Holdings Inc says that the Norwegian Police Force has chosen to standardise on the company 's Omnis Seven Plus Windows-based software on thousands of personal computers to be linked to unidentified Unix servers running the Ingres relational database management system . |