Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James took on the rather unglamorous task of editing the party paper , ‘ The Nation ’ and , almost single-handedly , established the paper 's reputation and prestige throughout the West Indies . |
| 2 | By the halfway stage he has taken on the slightly desperate , bloodshot aspect of the tragic hero about to be engulfed by the forces he has unleashed : ‘ I shall resolutely ignore everything but the skeletal essentials of my theme , ’ he declares ( ‘ Off , off you lendings ! ’ ) . |
| 3 | In what could be the most crucial casting decision of his career , Stone settled on Val Kilmer to take on the most sought-after male lead role in recent years . |
| 4 | Working at the top end of the market as he did , Roche was taking on the most difficult assignments , but they were also the most remunerative and had the greatest publicity value . |
| 5 | But this is exactly the sort of attitude that has forced RAF pilots to take on the most terrifying assignments and attack runways and hardened aircraft shelters ( built with British expertise ) , to be fired on by Soviet missiles or Soviet antiaircraft guns , or face the threat of German-developed chemical warfare or French Exocet missiles . |
| 6 | From then on the most prominent change leading to the human brain was simply an increase in the area of the sheet of cells which forms the neocortex or neopallium . |
| 7 | Magnus Magnusson , TV presenter , president of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , chair of the Ancient Monuments Board for Scotland and currently chair of the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland , will be taking on the most demanding environmental job in Scotland as the first chair of the new agency . |
| 8 | ‘ If the thought of other women being able to do this , to touch you , hold you , lie with you , brings on the most awful pain inside , makes me feel sick and ill , then I have no intention of letting you out of my sight . |
| 9 | Erm taking on the here . |
| 10 | All this achieved was to take on the even more serious problems of behaviourism itself . |
| 11 | Along with the bastion , the bastion u hung on the on the on the toilet wall , nine times out of ten . |
| 12 | Along with the bastion , the bastion u hung on the on the on the toilet wall , nine times out of ten . |
| 13 | Eric Tait ( left ) , the current director of European operations , takes on the newly created role of international executive director reporting to the chairman , while Frank Hughes serves his second interim term as chairman . |
| 14 | Another recent open winner , Harry Williams ' Derby hope Pond Pavarotti , whose victory at Brough Park last week helped Sunderland win second place in the inter-track competition , setting a new sectional record of 3.71 seconds , takes on the well known Yorkshire-based open racer Mandys Supreme , which is trained by the unattached Derek Tidswell . |
| 15 | The 24-year-old sweeper will lose three days ’ wages for deserting his father 's electrical business to take on the infinitely more difficult job of shoring up the leakiest defence in international soccer . |
| 16 | Often he takes on the legs-apart , guitar pose with Solowka mirroring his every move while massive grins threaten to slice their faces in two . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , just as ways have somehow to be found of taking on the sexually ( or racially ) abusive language heard in the classroom , so , surely , ways have to be found of taking on sexually ( or racially ) abusive language read out to pupils from class novels . |
| 18 | The technique in question is Bob Blake 's Managerial Grid , still going strong 30 years after it was developed in the US , and likely to show new life in the UK now that management consultants P-E International have taken on the somewhat dusty licence . |
| 19 | The three winners ' works will be hung on the apparently dreary corridors of the BBC Television Centre . |
| 20 | Well why not try Wolverhampton the golden glow of the amber shirts of Wolves will take on the proudly bar coded Magpies and would n't we like to see Notts wallop Wolves . |
| 21 | For anyone disposed to take on the often very satisfying task of making banners I can assure them that there are several very kind ‘ Barnabases ’ in the church whose comments and encouragements I have valued . |
| 22 | ‘ This first phase of our Skerneside Revival will carry on the very important initiative of the Railside Revival . ’ |
| 23 | The qualities which they attribute to literacy thus take on the more general significance of justifying the vast expense on western education systems . |
| 24 | The night creatures which had drifted through the streets were no more , and the market stalls and poverty-stricken beggars took on the more comforting image of a capital apparently little changed since Blake 's day . |
| 25 | or the team is first to identify the word in any hang on , hang on the only the time the die is rolled to advance the token is when a word is identified within the one minute time limit comma or a team is first to identify the word in any all play situation . |
| 26 | ( Melastomataceae ) , while in the Malay Peninsula , raindrops run down the longitudinally dehisced capsules of Didymocarpus spp . |
| 27 | Christian Braun , founder and director of the Overholland Foundation , has decided to close down the privately run museum on Museumsquare in Amsterdam . |
| 28 | The Volvo estate accelerated down the straight through the forest towards Port Ann . |
| 29 | To the south you look down the steeply falling park to where the river slowly bends around Dittisham on the western bank , and to the west a view cut through the trees shows the river almost encircling the Sandridge promontory , its last wide stretch before it narrows upstream to Totnes . |
| 30 | There 's nothing around the sides of the stage except cold brick walls and if you put anything there you cut down the already poor sight lines even more . |