Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] on [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agreement marks the first time Nato has taken on a mission beyond its borders since the alliance was founded in 1949 . |
| 2 | A consistent feature of unpaid caring , demonstrated by all the available detailed studies , is that once a particular relative has taken on the responsibility for the care of an elderly or handicapped person they get rather limited support , if any , from other relatives or friends . |
| 3 | The foregoing account confirms the idea implicit in the theoretical scheme which I sketched earlier : namely , that nationalism is an immensely powerful force , first , because it is sustained by a deep-rooted sense of belonging to a territorial and cultural community , and secondly , because this sense of belonging has become firmly attached to the nation state in a process of political development which is now several centuries old , and has taken on the character of a more or less sacrosanct and unalterable principle of political organization . |
| 4 | A major chain of small grocery shops has taken on the might of the big wholesalers in a battle over the right to sell newspapers . |
| 5 | Matthew A. has taken on the notion of drafting , of provisionality , better than the others . |
| 6 | For me the transcendent landscape has taken on the aspect of patterned fields , or small patches of flower beds . |
| 7 | With no qualifications and precious little experience , she has taken on the job of Princess of Wales and is turning it into a significant career — and at the same time has brought up two small boys . |
| 8 | The multitude of Madonnas for Italian worship in the Renaissance made this a fruitful theme for connoisseurship which has taken on the task of distinguishing authentic works from those by followers or copyists . |
| 9 | If some kind person could send us a copy I have some very keen would-be knitters who would be extremely grateful , not least myself who has taken on the task of teaching them . |
| 10 | Recently , Tina Benson , the captain 's sister , has taken on the role of marketing manager . |
| 11 | A penguin keeper whose own family has flown the nest has taken on the role of mother to one of her birds . |
| 12 | ‘ The father may have been violent , the woman might be involved with someone else who has taken on the role of father . |
| 13 | The two sisters were both in their fifties , both ex-nurses , neither ever married ; they 'd taken on the restaurant as a late-life decision when their father had died and left them a shared inheritance . |
| 14 | We thought the bumpy flight must have brought on a bout of air-sickness , but it was not so . |
| 15 | She might have taken on a job as a waitress for the summer , but she was damned if she was going to let people treat her like a mindless robot because of it . |
| 16 | However , the payments were paid out regularly and if one were to apply the normal UK rules those payments would have taken on the form of income ( see Brodie 's Trust Deeds v IRC ( 1933 ) 17 TC 432 ; Jackson 's Trust Deeds v IRC ( 1942 ) 25 TC 13 and Postlethwaite v IRC ( 1963 ) 41 TC 224 ) . |
| 17 | Given half a chance she 'd have taken on the job of finding a soul-mate for Shannon with all the crusading zeal of a missionary , since she was blissfully convinced that true happiness could be found only in a strong relationship such as the one she had . |
| 18 | Some of the water-pipes in the town of Wilhelmshaven , Germany seem to have taken on a life of their own . |
| 19 | This was a memorandum that seemed to have taken on a life of its own : now here , now there , now one , now several , now alone , now gone , now lurking . |
| 20 | To have taken on the world in that state would have been political suicide . |
| 21 | Soviet society is inevitably becoming more technocratic and under the control of an administrative stratum which many outsiders believe to have taken on the characteristics of a new ruling class ( Hill , Dunmore and Dawisha 1981 , pp. 209–11 ) . |
| 22 | In May 1987 the debtor , who had carried on the business of running a nursing home , sold the business as a going concern and went to live in the Canary Islands . |
| 23 | As far as I know , Sainsburys have n't yet taken that decision they 've they 've hung on the brink for more than six months now . |
| 24 | Hastily he redirected his attention towards the circular screen that he had hung on the wall in place of an oil painting of some horned , scaly jungle monster . |
| 25 | But there have been people so sunk in self-blame they 've taken on the guilt of their firm 's collapse — which really does have to be nonsense . |
| 26 | Just as he had been wont to do as a boy , so this morning after waking , he had lain and thought of the day ahead and what he had to do in it , and he was aware that life had taken on a tinge of colour . |
| 27 | Fürst Franz Thun-Hohenstein remembers : ‘ When the enormous picture arrived packed up , my sisters and I were curious to see and touch something which really came from Decin , from Bohemia , which had taken on a kind of dream-like quality for us ; Decin did live on for us , but was unattainable . |
| 28 | Only one company questioned , who insisted on complete anonymity , had taken on an ex-headhunter into a position it had been seeking to fill , and admitted that it had been a disastrous mistake . |
| 29 | Malcolm had taken on an assistant by this time , Nils Stevenson . |
| 30 | To help publicise the launch of the airline , Branson had taken on the services of Tony Brainsby , a man whose hyperventilated style of press-arousal on behalf of such clients as Paul McCartney had made him a small legend in the pop world . |