Example sentences of "[verb] on [art] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plans to build hospitals in particular places , or schools , appeared on the agenda because committee chairmen had canvassed opinion and had advised the secretariats in Tripoli : they went through smoothly enough , suggesting that the occasional displeasing reverse was more the result of failure to plan and to prepare the ground in advance , to carry on the ordinary business of politics , than a result of failure in some mystical process , such as interpreting the general will by introspection . |
| 2 | Always bleating and moaning because he has n't got a son — no one to carry on the Great Name of Graham — She gave a short guffaw . |
| 3 | Friday nights are hot at Apples and Snakes — every week they bring on a new lineup of outstanding poets and performers . |
| 4 | PLEASE NOTE : ONLY INFORMATION GIVEN ON THE NEW FORMS WILL BE CARRIED ON THE BACK PAGE OF THE NEXT ISSUE OF LEADS . |
| 5 | It had been a very long night to pass on a tiny piece of sandwich . |
| 6 | Finally , the whole of the Gospel leads to the commission of the Church , to go out and baptise , to teach , and to pass on the new law of Christianity ( Matt. |
| 7 | So this was not the equivalent of a father wanting to pass on the passionate love of his hobby to his children . |
| 8 | If one person in a twin room cancels , we reserve the right to pass on the full cost of the twin room to the person using that room . |
| 9 | Although she is now slim , Liz confesses to a terrible struggle with her weight , which makes peasant-style clothes , such as Monsoon 's glorious Tibetan embroidered skirt ( see page 16 ) particularly good for her : ‘ I put on a great deal of weight after the twins were born , and when I started diving , it became very obvious because fat floats , so you have to balance your weight with extra diving weights . |
| 10 | Yeah but I 'm not I 'm going home and put on a different pair of shoes though . |
| 11 | I put on a clean pair of socks . |
| 12 | ‘ Put on a fresh pot of coffee , Sindy , ’ Tammuz called . |
| 13 | And Jani Allan — although she lost her libel case — put on a fine show of brittle , asexual sophistication in a cream linen suit and austere black blouse . |
| 14 | Then Petra , a group which looks and sounds like Led Zeppelin , but is given to quoting from St Paul 's epistle to the Ephesians ( 6:11-17 : ‘ Put on the full armour of God , that you may be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil … ’ ) , is for you . |
| 15 | She has suffered much in the last decade but that experience has given her the inner fortitude to shoulder the emotional burden she must carry on the next stage of her life 's journey . |
| 16 | The business sale agreement will usually provide that , if a VAT liability arises from a supply which the parties expected to be outside the scope of VAT , the consideration will be VAT exclusive where this is caused by a breach of warranty by Newco ( for example , that it will carry on the same kind of business as the vendor after completion ) . |
| 17 | Once the school librarian or teacher has mastered the simple stages of switching on the different parts of the microcomputer , e.g. to set up the BBC microcomputer , the user 1 ) Plugs in the computer , the disk drive , the monitor and the printer 2 ) Switches on the microcomputer , the disk drive , the monitor and the printer 3 ) Puts a disk into the disk drive 4 ) Types in a command on the microcomputer s/he will be able to use programs for different applications such as database creation or word processing and the applications are covered later in this book . |
| 18 | ( Thus Auer complains of Gumperz that " sometimes he makes strong claims about the effect of a given type or instance of code switching on the subsequent development of the sequence , which are based on informants ' reports , but fails to reproduce this subsequent passage " ( Auer 1984b : 106 , fn. 10 ) . ) |
| 19 | Sports officer Ian Gardiner said : ‘ We will be submitting a bid for funds to put on a new series of Champion Coaching based on the popularity of the last course . |
| 20 | Six Local Art Societies , Art Gallery in the Town Centre , Queensway , Billingham ( until March 14 ) IT seems to me that the ink was barely dry on my last little piece which suggested that Darlington Society of Arts seemed content to restrict itself to one exhibition per year when , all of a sudden , came news that Darlington , the CAS and Hartlepool Art Club were to join forces respectively the Hambleton , Leven and Yarm art societies to put on a joint show of their work at Billingham . |
| 21 | We put this to you as an answer to all slimmers who say they only need to look at a single cake or bar of chocolate to put on a substantial amount of fat . |
| 22 | And this has prompted one of the oldest museums to put on a special exhibition of sketches that have become collectors ' items . |
| 23 | Primed by Stephanie 's reaction , she had the presence of mind to put on an impressive pretence of knowing all about the recent ‘ mystery ’ consignment . |
| 24 | Angel proceeded to put on an incredible display of histrionics , peacock-blue eyes flashing , nostrils flaring above his furiously pouting mouth , as he shouted and swore at Alejandro . |
| 25 | The only idea that seemed feasible was for the Collector to put on the rusty suit of armour which stood in the banqueting hall and to go out there with a scythe . |
| 26 | Pillars , walls , ceiling , all have been painted , and there are even paintings hung on the upper walls of the nave above the arches , which are a mixture of round and pointed . |
| 27 | Its magnificent sculptured bronze doors still exist but are now on view inside the church , hung on the inner side of the west portal . |
| 28 | Well , each of the seven great churches had a peel of six bells that hung on the outside wall of the church tower . |
| 29 | My father 's feelings towards the General were , naturally , those of utmost loathing ; but he realized too that his employer 's present business aspirations hung on the smooth running of the house party — which with some eighteen or so people expected would be no trifling affair . |
| 30 | And takes on a surprising amount of colour : RED , naturally . |