Example sentences of "have [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent representations he has received on low flying ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 2 | Harry Judge has commented on programmed learning that it : |
| 3 | A GRIEVING family 's plea to have a symbolic teddy bear carved on their seven-week-old daughter 's grave has fallen on deaf ears . |
| 4 | If an outline idea has been discussed over the lunch table ring up to carry it further , and if you have floated an idea by post and have heard nothing phone up to see if it has fallen on stony ground . |
| 5 | As more and more is understood of the way in which interactions between the child and the environment create privileged opportunities for language learning , so it may be possible to reduce the burden of explanation which has fallen on innate factors . |
| 6 | Instead , he has relied on great fitness and stamina to enable him to keep sprinting in at full pace , and speed of arm and perfect balance to capitalize on the momentum ; combined with an unrelenting desire to keep on taking more and more wickets , it has all proved irresistible . |
| 7 | As the educated urban elite abandon Mr Collor , following a series of media exposes of his political record , he has relied on continued support from rural voters at rallies of up to 70,000 . |
| 8 | Initially supported in its early stages by a grant from the J. Paul Getty Trust ( the first Getty grant to be awarded to an art journal ) , Print Quarterly has relied on generous benefactors and advertising revenue since that date . |
| 9 | More frequently , the MMC has relied on informal assurances that criticized behaviour will be discontinued . |
| 10 | Water has frozen on cold nights in the cracks or joints of rocks and this has split them apart . |
| 11 | The press 's current output has built on existing strengths : its increased concentration on anthropology , social sciences and politics stands alongside established topics such as Islamic studies , history , linguistics and biological science . |
| 12 | Unlike previous education secretaries , he has built on recent changes and amassed a far wider range of powers before setting his plans in motion . |
| 13 | I think it is important to concede that what we can loosely call the anti-antiracist position associated with sections of the new right and with populist politics has fed on crucial ambiguities in antiracist and multicultural initiatives . |
| 14 | Bourdieu has written on traditional societies and modern society , but does not at all on the face of it seem to have a theory of modernization . |
| 15 | The entire span of Irish Art and Architecture is examined in a book of that name by Peter Harbison , chairman of the National Monuments Advisory Council , Homan Potterton , former director of the National Gallery of Ireland , and Jeanne Sheehy who has written on Irish art ( £14.95 ) . |
| 16 | It has taken its PowerServer 340R and has bolted on extra communications and data storage options . |
| 17 | He has struggled on social security to bring up Louis with girlfriend Debbie Blount . |
| 18 | Responding to a campaign by environmental groups , B&Q , a do-it-yourself and gardening chain , has decided on conservation grounds to stop stocking peat cut from bogs designated as sites of special scientific interest ( SSSIs ) . |
| 19 | dying as it has done on other nights |
| 20 | The forced reference reset can occur at this level , and has done on numerous occasions . |
| 21 | In all these contexts there are high demands on individuals for effective and responsible behaviour , and it becomes crucial to know what precise effects sleep loss has had on normal functioning . |
| 22 | My right hon. Friend will agree that those questions must be answered and that we have to get to the very heart of the scandal to ensure that it should not happen again , not only in Leicestershire but elsewhere , and those responsible for the cover-up are made to realise what they have done and the subsequent effect it has had on numerous children . |
| 23 | In 1988 , he was awarded an honorary masters degree at Guangsi Province University and has lectured on European art to post-graduate students there . |
| 24 | The Indonesian government has embarked on large-scale commercial harvesting of sago palms in Irian Jaya ( the western half of New Guinea ) , threatening the livelihood of tribal people who depend on sago starch as a basic foodstuff . |
| 25 | More typically , however , the ‘ New Left ’ has drawn on Latin America 's own political tradition , resurrecting the work of Mariátegui and embracing earlier , non-Marxist , liberation struggles . |
| 26 | The governing body must be able to demonstrate that it has acted on reasonable grounds following reasonable investigations . |
| 27 | However energetic such a group may be , it has to draw on popular ethnic support . |
| 28 | Arthur Scargill , president of the National Union of Mineworkers , has called on other trade unionists to take action today to defend the coal industry , which is being run down despite the Government 's rescue package reprieving 12 of the original 31 pits earmarked for closure . |
| 29 | Now he has called on other schools in the town to unite in a crusade against violence and drug abuse . |
| 30 | Malaysia has called on developing countries , particularly those dependent on timber and timber products , to " be conscious of negative attempts by the developed West " . |