Example sentences of "[verb] on the [adj] [noun sg] 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 | PLEASE NOTE : ONLY INFORMATION GIVEN ON THE NEW FORMS WILL BE CARRIED ON THE BACK PAGE OF THE NEXT ISSUE OF LEADS . |
| 4 | 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. |
| 5 | So this was not the equivalent of a father wanting to pass on the passionate love of his hobby to his children . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | ( 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 ) . ) |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Its magnificent sculptured bronze doors still exist but are now on view inside the church , hung on the inner side of the west portal . |
| 13 | Well , each of the seven great churches had a peel of six bells that hung on the outside wall of the church tower . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Ideally , the community physiotherapist takes on the wider responsibility of not only teaching the carers , but also assessing and treating the patient 's particular problems through a progressive rehabilitation programme . |
| 16 | As Wilfred Owen moves into the second stanza he takes on the bigger issue of what he is really trying to say . |
| 17 | The famous Chapter 5 of the first book , which deals with the transformation of labour from a stage where it is a ‘ part of life ’ to a stage under capitalism when it takes on the imaginary form of a thing separate from the labourer , when it can be bought and sold , is worked out in Formen , in the discussion of tribal , oriental , and ancient societies which it contains . |
| 18 | He will take on the new post of Communications Manager , ‘ leading and co-ordinating all aspects of our public relations ’ , according to Sotheby 's Chairman Lord Gowrie . |
| 19 | Not a happy marriage , and not one that could take on the extra burden of a weeping widowed friend . |
| 20 | He understood now , all right , and there was some comfort in taking on the complete burden of guilt , a kind of purgative sense of martyrdom , not unrelated to self-pity . |
| 21 | We have demonstrated against petty apartheid because we are taking on the entire system of apartheid on all fronts . |
| 22 | Gloucester 's role was basically to preserve the status quo by taking on the temporary leadership of the connection , rather than to carve out a new power base for himself . |
| 23 | Gloucester 's role was basically to preserve the status quo by taking on the temporary leadership of the connection , rather than to carve out a new power base for himself . |
| 24 | Mothers of younger and younger children have been taking on the dual burden of paid work and child rearing ( see Hunt , 1968 ; Martin and Roberts , 1984 ; Joshi , 1985 ) . |
| 25 | Taking on the difficult task of choosing a winner is London-based Olive Hurford-Porter , whose connection with the amateur operatic movement spans five decades as performer , choreographer and director . |
| 26 | Marcuson found himself increasingly taking on the editorial running of the paper . |
| 27 | Yesterday he was taking on the anti-government creed of the 1980s which left economics to the free market . |
| 28 | Thus the right hemisphere is well-placed to undertake the early parallel , preconscious scanning of large amounts of information , the left taking on the later function of conscious elaboration of selected items . |
| 29 | Immediately the smug features reassembled themselves in his imagination and took on the friendly demeanour of an irrelevant sibling . |
| 30 | Phil 's first big break in showbiz was when , as a child actor , he took on the challenging role of Arthur Dodger in Charles Dickens ' classical-rock musical ‘ Camelot ’ where he learned all he knows re : homelessness … |