Example sentences of "[adj] have [verb] [adv] on the " in BNC.

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1 To date the analysis of this has focused mainly on the roles played by these units in the MNEs ' approach to global strategy , and the administrative procedures adopted to use them effectively .
2 In Moabit there had already been some traffic management in the past , but this had relied largely on the use of one-way streets .
3 In one case this had happened twice on the same land and was about to happen a third time for bulldozer had arrived to destroy a newly erected building where a woman stood in the way , she was one of the nuns helping in the area ; the defence was successful .
4 we did , some had gone out on the plates and then I had three boxes left and I was going round giving them out .
5 Insecure Christian men feeling threatened have fallen back on the Scriptures with authoritarian tunnel vision , while Christian women are learning Greek and Hebrew in order to find a loophole to invalidate this ‘ yoke of bondage ’ .
6 All three have appeared simultaneously on the occasion of the major exhibition at the Hayward Gallery what are their relative contributions to our knowledge ?
7 The couple married in 1986 having worked together on the television series , Taggart , on which she was a wardrobe assistant .
8 Tamils and Sinhalese have lived together on the island for 2,000-odd years .
9 The police reported that a number of fires — believed to be malicious had ignited simultaneously on the fourth floor .
10 The castle 's black-cloaked seneschal had scowled darkly on the previous occasions when Quiss had tracked him down in the kitchens and asked him what was going on and what he intended to do about it ; he made dour excuses and talked of the corrosive effects of salt water and what a mess it made of his pipes and anyway materials were very hard to come by these days — What days ?
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