Example sentences of "[verb] on the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for this is that women are forced to carry on the main productive activity by themselves because of their subjection . |
| 2 | Hopefully it will take constructive criticism well and will carry on the excellent scientific work of the NCC . |
| 3 | Impressively placed and considerably exposed , it hangs on the vertical right wall of the corner with a straight drop to North-West Gully , an uninterrupted 150ft ( 45m ) below . |
| 4 | A strong lemon smell , from a local herb known as black branch , hung on the hot steamy air . |
| 5 | The linking of the elements thus takes on the only allowable form of " one-to-many " . |
| 6 | Level Three , on the other hand , is an entirely different kettle of fish as Rambo , strapped into the seat of a stolen tank , single-handedly takes on the entire Soviet Army . |
| 7 | Back to form Sandy Cottage takes on the classy Lovely Charlott in the 6th Year Marathon . |
| 8 | In many cases it obviously would be and if there was any element of duress brought on the other contracting party under the modern development of this branch of the law the proposed breaker of the contract would not benefit . |
| 9 | embed sentences in relations to reality in such a way that they can take on the general pragmatic functions of representation , expression and establishing interpersonal relations . |
| 10 | Charing Cross — should take on the relocated Royal Brompton and Royal Marsden hospitals |
| 11 | Simultaneously , the His15 and Arg17 side chains of HPr would separate and the active centre would take on the strained open conformation ( Fig. 2 a ) , ready for the next cycle ; formation of hydrogen bonds to His15 and Arg17 would help to stabilize the open conformation and the protein would be in an overall energy minimum . |
| 12 | Although he had helped to set up British Aerospace as a nationalised company , he was convinced it could not take on the huge rival plane-makers in the United States unless it was unfettered from government control . |
| 13 | The sink was squared-off and old fashioned , with a white splashback and a tilting mirror ; Forester switched on the fluorescent shaving light and tried to tip the mirror to look at himself , but it would n't stay in place until he found out how to tighten a chrome-plated hexagonal nut on the hinge . |
| 14 | There was no central heating in the Old Rectory and she seldom switched on the two-bar electric fire in her bedroom , knowing how worried the Copleys were by their her bills . |
| 15 | He sacrificed precious time by taking on the onerous administrative post of tutor , which he held from 1929 to 1942 , and also the pious labour of bringing out volume two of the posthumously published Early Age of Greece ( 1931 ) of Sir William Ridgeway [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | If your camcorder is one of the new low-light models which can take pictures down to levels of 2 lux , you could simply switch on the normal top lighting in your lounge and start recording some perfectly adequate pictures . |
| 17 | An Oxford bedsit is home for the philosopher who took on the Czechoslovakian secret state . |
| 18 | And so , after General Marshall had spent a night in meditation on the consequences , the failed haberdasher from Independence , Missouri , took on the seventy-year-old national warhorse with his belligerent scowl , his dark glasses and his frayed , oak-leaf-encrusted battle cap ( he was believed to have a man on his staff who did nothing but fray his caps ) . |
| 19 | In the twenties , Mr. Cripps , described by A.G. Street as the ‘ prince of grocers ’ , was still carrying on the old established business . |
| 20 | Tonight , over in the nurses ' home on Huntley Street , a bunch of junior doctors would be putting on the usual end-of-year revue . |
| 21 | It had taken on the private circulating libraries and won , but in winning the battle it lost a war , perhaps even the war that Gladstone so acutely saw they were fighting . |
| 22 | An illustration of the complex pattern of cross-party allegiances in the early 1690s is provided by the stance taken on the abortive Triennial Bill of 1693 . |
| 23 | She has taken on the sophisticated royal machine and beaten it at its own game . |
| 24 | These three carry on the irresponsible practical jokes and illicit enterprises of their seniors , borrowing boats while in harbour and exploring themselves into danger , invariably rescued by improbably patient sailors . |
| 25 | She even put on sheer stockings and a brief pleated skirt instead of her usual jeans , then , as final proof of her new outlook on life , she put on the new pink sweater and danced out into the sitting-room , calling . |
| 26 | Paul Warren put on the usual impressive display in the Grumman Tigercat , Norman Lees flew David Gilmour 's Mustang N51RR and Peter Henley put Mosquito T.III RR299/G-ASKH through its paces in a smooth , co-ordinated display showing the lines of this classic British World War Two aircraft . |
| 27 | The declining popularity of bonfire night in the back garden is having two effects : a dramatic cut in the number of people hurt by fireworks , and booming business for the firms that put on the big public displays . |
| 28 | The declining historical significance of nationalism is today concealed not only by the visible spread of ethnic/linguistic agitations , but also by the semantic illusion which derives from the fact that all states are today officially ‘ nations ’ , though many of them patently have nothing in common with what the term ‘ nation-state ’ is commonly held to mean ; that therefore all movements seeking to win independence think of themselves as establishing nations even when they are patently not doing so ; and that centralisation and state bureaucracy will , if they possibly can , put on the fashionable national costume . |
| 29 | I also had a plaster of Paris cast on my leg ( which had been injured in a fall some weeks before ) and consequently had some difficulty in walking , I was put on the Regimental Mini Bus which was run purely to ferry married personnel to their married quarters after functions . |
| 30 | Earlier , on Feb. 6 , the union leader Ajami had said in London that " pressure will have to be put on the Kuwaiti royal family to honour " decisions taken at Jeddah in 1990 [ see p. 37759 ] . |