Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 You were going to take on the ones we had last time .
2 Having taken on the teachers and the police , he will now square up to fellow ministers and the voters .
3 In such fields a double need arises : to harmonise licensing requirements for companies intending to carry on the activities in question , and to establish essential standards for the prudential supervision of companies providing financial services .
4 If only she was alive today to pass on the secrets of her success .
5 Some were hanging on the brambles and a few flat , wet clots were lying well out in open ground beyond the clump .
6 Contestants will join him in the arena to try to do a Tyrus — and bring on the tears again .
7 Edward Stanton 's elder son , William , who was master mason to the Mint , attempted to carry on the sculptors ' yard , but was declared bankrupt in 1735 .
8 How then , did these early , isolated molecules , take on the trappings of life ?
9 He switched on the headlights as the car entered the M1 at Brent Cross .
10 Ward switched on the headlights , glancing at me quickly , a tight little smile .
11 ‘ I want to get three or four more experienced lads in their mid-20s to help bring on the youngsters but I do n't want players who are 30 . ’
12 This enchanting white-faced chestnut could be excitable before her races — it was the Royal Hunt Cup winner Come On The Blues , her travelling companion and calming influence , on whom she had her crush — but was admirably genuine , and her home-stretch surge to bring British racing its first great triumph in the Breeders ' Cup ensured that the affection in which she was held during her racing career would not fade .
13 She switched on the lights , dumped her bag on the table and turned to him abruptly .
14 When they were switched on the lights flooded out across the bare , flat expanse of moorland just beyond the perimeter of their property .
15 ‘ Any particular section ? ’ asked Hayman as he switched on the lights .
16 Eloise switched on the lights .
17 He switched on the lights and drove down the tank paths towards the front gate .
18 The security man swung open the door to the boardroom where the party had taken place and switched on the lights , revealing the room as Blanche and Dexter had last seen it the day after the killing .
19 Josie switched on the lights for the department 's makeup mirror , and Lucy winced as the brightness hit her .
20 Indoors , she flicked the rain from her hair and switched on the lights .
21 We carried on the traditions but young ones want to question everything , and maybe they 're right . ’
22 Margaret Thatcher was one of the greatest supporters of a classless society , not just I 'm not just talking about the silver spoon in one 's mouth , it 's the sometimes the stainless steel spoons of the middle class that erm that is a lot of the trouble , and no-one took on the establishments of the professional bodies erm and who have been over the years had a great deal of privilege in this country more than Margaret Thatcher .
23 But they dare n't take on the decisions and responsibility that would allow them to make their own alternatives , and to drop right out .
24 Continuing this political enquiry we should note the belief that was once expressed with some confidence that as workers became more affluent they would take on the values of the middle classes in their society .
25 You need your Warlord near his troops to pass on the benefits of his leadership and to get stuck in alongside the Boyz .
26 This means that we can pass on the benefits to policy holders such as yourself by either reducing the policy charges or indeed er increasing the bonuses wherever possible .
27 It can be extremely frustrating for people who have to travel to London and face the expense of preparing a case — sometimes employing parliamentary counsel to put their case — knowing that decisions are not necessarily taken on the merits of the arguments but on political considerations .
28 " Since it matters to some extent ( and perhaps a good deal ) which rule is chosen , we do best to use convention only to protect decisions that some responsible political institution has actually taken on the merits and to not include under that umbrella decisions by default , that is decisions no one has actually made .
29 At the same time , the proportion of freight carried on the railways between 1980 and 1990 dropped from 9% to 7% , while the proportion using road transport rose to 83% .
30 Then I was told that girls were being taken on the railways so I had to go to Ipswich and take two more exams and started work as a booking clerk at Needham Station when I was sixteen .
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