Example sentences of "[verb] on [adj] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It affects us directly — a balanced diet means we have the necessary energy to carry on living life to the full . |
| 2 | Certain restrictions on competition are allowed in co-operative R&D ventures , including an obligation not to carry on independent R&D in the same field as the cooperative venture ( or to enter into R&D agreements with third parties in the R&D field assigned to the joint venture ) , and the inclusion of limited territorial protection clauses restricting some of the production and marketing activities of other participants . |
| 3 | But Japan Air Lines ( JAL ) experienced only a 3.5% drop in the number of passengers carried on international routes in the year to March 31st . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A naked bulb of high wattage hung on half-exposed wires from the centre of the sloping ceiling . |
| 6 | Usually , the contract will mention the fee , but this provision might be useful if the supplier takes on additional work at the request of the other party and no mention is made at the time of agreement of the charge for this extra work . |
| 7 | This idea of enlightenment , of living in the light , takes on particular importance alongside the notion of ideology ( Chapter 6 ) . |
| 8 | The crisis brought on severe misgivings on the London stock market , where the shares fell sharply . |
| 9 | Following his departure , will take on overall responsibility for the management of Courtaulds Health Environment and Safety Services ( CHESS ) . |
| 10 | Individuals will take on different roles within the group . |
| 11 | We lack systematic knowledge of the circumstances under which grandchildren might take on significant responsibility for the support ( either personal or financial ) for their grandparents in contemporary Britain . |
| 12 | When the German army followed them , they kept on the move , taking on odd jobs along the way , until they ended up in Warsaw . |
| 13 | The role of ‘ Shipping Manager ’ is taking on unprecedented importance in the headquarter buildings of major manufacturers . |
| 14 | Australian Pinot Noir/Chardonnay £5.99 A wonderful golden honey colour with lots of bubbles that kept on fizzing right to the end of the glass . |
| 15 | He gradually took on full-time work in the same company , and gained three promotions within a year . |
| 16 | I took on additional work in the Council , bullying them to set up a committee to draft out statutory requirements for caravan sites — which later became the basis for a Private Member 's Bill — and still had time to dig the vegetable garden and walk miles with the children , just for the pleasure of it . |
| 17 | The principle took on particular importance in the light of the development of totalitarian communism , and the Roman church saw the threat to be endemic in the growth of the modern state apparatus , including its welfare institutions . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Dave Bull , who many of you will know as a fanatical ‘ Stiff ’ and athlete in his own right , has been banned from carrying on shot-putt practice in the bar . |
| 20 | As this agenda spreads to other sections of the press , to radio and to television , it produces a ‘ self-enforcing conformity ’ whose importance ‘ lies not in the nuances of attitude taken on different items on the political agenda , but rather in the common agreement on that agenda itself … ’ . |
| 21 | No 2 Wing Royal Naval Air Service members , including Jack ( centre ) , taken on active service in the Eastern Mediterranean , circa 1916 . |
| 22 | Rates in this market have taken on particular importance in the recent past for three main reasons . |
| 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 | An examination of the historical pattern of change serves four main purposes ; purposes which take on great significance in the context of contemporary debates concerning the proper representation of all political opinion and the nature of bias in the press . |
| 25 | ‘ The way I understand it firms are obliged to take on disabled men from the war . ‘ |
| 26 | This optimism was partly reflected in the fact that 40 per cent claimed they intended to take on new employees within the next six months . |
| 27 | In the case of general practitioners it may be necessary for family health services authorities to take on delegated authority from the Medical Practices Committee for recruiting general practitioners and approving average list sizes . |
| 28 | There was also the prospect of extending the scheme worldwide and the Institute was about to take on statutory responsibilities under the Companies Act 1989 . |
| 29 | There are many plants that give off scent during the day but which seem to take on fresh strength in the evenings . |
| 30 | Every spell of cold , wet weather brings on coarse rattlings in the chest , a great accumulation of mucus in the air passages , or constant colds one after another . |