Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] have [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal College of Physicians has gone on record as stating that ‘ there are reasonable grounds for the statement that , in genetically susceptible persons , large bowel cancer could be favoured by a fibre-depleted diet ’ . |
| 2 | The importance of authorities for the generation and maintenance of conventions has led on occasion to ill-conceived attempts to explain the nature of authority exclusively by reference to conventions . |
| 3 | In recent months a parcel of galleries have sprouted on the streets between Spring and Grand in SoHo — not an area previously gallery-intense . |
| 4 | Spokesmen for the Chamorro government stressed that a small group of officers had acted on their own authority to ship the missiles , which included Sam-7s and Sam-14s and which had been used to shoot down Salvadorean army aircraft on Nov. 23 and Dec. 4 . |
| 5 | The United Nations High Commission for Refugees had called on the Home Office to reconsider Mr Guzel 's removal on compassionate grounds . |
| 6 | The most common cause for solicitors having to claim on their professional indemnity insurance in personal injury work is the missing of time limits and allowing cases to become statute barred , either by failing to issue in time or failing to serve in time . |
| 7 | A number of writers have speculated on the underlying processes involved in counterurbanization ( for example , Berry 1976 , Hall and Hay 1980 , Fielding 1982 , Champion 1987 ) . |
| 8 | A number of cases have turned on the legality of such conditions . |
| 9 | A number of principles have emerged on remoteness of damage . |
| 10 | A thick cloud of mosquitoes had arrived on time and soon settled on everything and everybody . |
| 11 | Comprehensivization , he muttered to himself , seemed to have had much the same effect on the middle-middle class in England as racial integration in schools had had on similar people in the States . |
| 12 | Welcome back : A plague of wasps has descended on the region . |
| 13 | Having said that , the hon. and learned Member for Burton makes a good point : it would offend against the views of ordinary persons and would be a crying sense of injustice if people who were not party to the aggravated crime and who had sought to distance themselves from it were found guilty because the balance of probabilities had fallen on them to prove their innocence . |
| 14 | The United States House of Representatives had voted on May 22 to incorporate in a foreign aid bill ( which was , however , subsequently defeated ) a provision cutting military aid to El Salvador by 50 per cent , in protest at the failure of the authorities to prosecute the murderers of the priests . |
| 15 | The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has called on consumers to ask restaurateurs the country of origin of their veal . |