Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although all but 78 paratroop snipers were killed , the Australians were forced to surrender within four days , leaving the 2/2 Independent Company and some Dutch troops to carry on the fight 160 miles ( 257km ) to the east at Dili . |
| 2 | Just for a change I teamed up with a few fellow warriors to take on the Witchlord in Gremlin 's RPG-for-the-masses , Heroquest . |
| 3 | Forty years later , I found some areas of the real island of Bali overrun with drunken Australian footballers carrying on the GI tradition on their end-of-season trips . |
| 4 | Davidson , who was second to Richard Meade at Badminton 10 years ago on J J Babu , is among riders from 10 overseas countries taking on the British . |
| 5 | In America , where there was a comparative absence of a long term aristocracy , these social hierarchies took on a particularly strong pecuniary emphasis . |
| 6 | In their very independence , these cultural practices take on a certain ‘ facticity ’ or ‘ materiality ’ , very much like the profane materiality of the practices of every-day life . |
| 7 | Three identical aprons hung on a crooked coatstand . |
| 8 | It only took a little adaptation for many familiar songs to take on a new life and vigour , especially with the accompaniment of timbrels , clapping and dancing . |
| 9 | In particular , the development of expert systems for use in medical , legal , commercial or educational contexts has meant that many person-computer exchanges take on a conversational quality . |
| 10 | FASHION lovers will soon be able to snap up top label clothes at bargain prices as revolutionary new superstores take on the High Street giants . |
| 11 | It is built along the lines of the most severe late-Seventeenth Century North German instruments , and with its acerbic Kirnberger III tuning , the most innocuous harmonic passages take on a distinctly tangy flavour . |
| 12 | For the last few days she had seen them , not as her parents but as two hating individuals carrying on a private war behind screens . |