Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Women builders can work from our workshops and take on private commissions , if they want to set up on their own , ’ she said . |
| 2 | YOUR VERY OWN MANAGER There has been a surge recently in the number of smaller fund management companies keen to take on private clients |
| 3 | There are more than 200 stockbroking firms eager to take on private clients , ranging from the independent , old-fashioned type of broker through to some of the larger international firms or subsidiaries of the clearing banks . |
| 4 | A council spokesman said said the decision to end the system was taken on economic grounds . |
| 5 | Or , it could be behaviour which is seen as eccentric or bizarre , such as not wearing shoes and socks in conventional situations or carrying on prolonged conversations with the plants in one 's garden . |
| 6 | The nationwide protest against the Poll Tax has taken on historic proportions . |
| 7 | Our more natural inclination was to hide in the dim recesses of the games shed and carry on enthralling discussions about boyfriends and the origins of the universe . |
| 8 | He gradually took on full-time work in the same company , and gained three promotions within a year . |
| 9 | As time goes on , our membership and our finances will decide when we can take on full-time officials . |
| 10 | Although the LEA remains the employer of the staff in the school , the governors take on extensive powers over staffing and responsibilities under employment law . |
| 11 | Or again as Jevons says ‘ Originally a market was a public place in a town where provisions and other objects were exposed for sale ; but the word has been generalized , so as to mean any body of persons who are in intimate business relations and carry on extensive transactions in any commodity . |
| 12 | In addition , Invesco will take on European shares , while Gartmore accepts foreign shares , UK gilts and holdings in offshore funds . |
| 13 | Courses in the first , second and third years are chosen from biological and management sciences , Ecological Science and Agriculture ; in the fourth year study units will be taken on rural land management . |
| 14 | ‘ … a fiscal and accounting entity with self-balancing set of accounts recording cash and other financial resources together with all related liabilities and residual equities or balances and changes therein which are segregated for the purpose of carrying on specific activities or attaining certain objectives in accordance with special regulations , restrictions or limitations . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ People are often taken on short-term contracts , proper jobs are very hard to come by . |
| 16 | When the German army followed them , they kept on the move , taking on odd jobs along the way , until they ended up in Warsaw . |
| 17 | And yet men do have reason to be concerned if , on these occasions , women find their lonely anger or isolated oppression is understood and shared by other women , so that personal struggles take on political dimensions . |
| 18 | The final decision on where to apply for planning permission to build is certain to be taken on political grounds . |
| 19 | There might have been an economic argument for Britain to stay out , but the decision was quite clearly taken on political grounds . |
| 20 | But as we know that MI5 taps telephones and keeps files on people simply to pass on political information to the government , one can assume that Kinnock 's call to Turnbull is not the only piece of politicised telephone tapping that goes on . |
| 21 | Even when no political or social statement was intended , the most abstruse philosophical inquiry , the most obscure historical research , the narrowest psychological study took on political meaning . |
| 22 | Get set : Marathon runners will take on four-legged competition in a long distance run at Llanwyrtyd Wells , Powys . |
| 23 | At the meeting-place of roads on the Plateau d'Iraty there are four things you can do : go unadventurously back the way you came , to Esterençuby ; carry on due east over the Col Bagargui along a tolerable but not always reassuring road into Larrau and the valley of Mauléon ; turn sharp left along a somewhat hazardous stretch of track rather than road towards the village of Men dive ( I funk Ed this route myself , after a short trial run , but bad roads do get mended or improved in the Pyrenees , so one year 's experience may be different from the next ) ; or turn to the right along the very scenic road into the Forêt d'Iraty itself . |
| 24 | The white man 's burden had to be carried on strong backs . |
| 25 | Pioneering NHS industrial units in large hospitals thus took on subcontracted work from local factories . |
| 26 | The task of the academic is to teach and engage in research , and , if required , to take on administrative duties . |
| 27 | Come on darling look . |
| 28 | First , places tend to take on specialized functions , in addition to the universal ones , thereby creating a spatial division of labour , at a variety of scales . |
| 29 | Every conversation , every event , took on fresh colour and significance . |
| 30 | ‘ We 'll take on fresh food and water when we reach Ibiza , ’ Nathan announced . |