Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will want to be able to build high capacity systems so going to take on the class of applications that have traditionally been associated with a mainframe . |
| 2 | I only have to switch on the news to hear things a whole lot crazier than that . ’ |
| 3 | Not daring to put on the light , she sat up and felt for the glass of water on the bedside table . |
| 4 | The room was growing very dark , yet Breeze did not like to put on the light . |
| 5 | In addition to the above Kent have also very generously offered to take on the Handicraft and Soft Toy stall . |
| 6 | He scrambled out of his sleeping bag and went to fetch a torch he kept for when he wanted to read late , not liking to put on the light and get all the other going . |
| 7 | IN A move which highlights the hard times facing the City , more than 200 institutions yesterday agreed to take on the risk of underwriting the £5.3billion water sell-off at commission rates worth a total of just £33million . |
| 8 | As a result , people in these institutions quickly came to take on the roles and goals which these institutions required for their survival . |
| 9 | He 's always looking to take on the back row and his sheer physical strength is phenomenal … |
| 10 | Coleridge even dares to take on the subject of the workings of Nature , as it were , as he attempts to describe the power and intensity of the earth breathing ; his reference to the ‘ ceaseless turmoil seething , as if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing ’ shows the poet getting almost as close to the heart of creativity as it is possible to do . |
| 11 | Although the authors see some advantages in a system within the local authority , they conclude that claimants would be better served by independent tribunals and feel Social Security Tribunals are well placed to take on the task . |
| 12 | ‘ You do n't have to switch on the computer , load the program and recall a file from disc — you just switch on and it 's there , ’ Lyndon-James says . |
| 13 | Right , we , we , we did actually draw , or we not draw , we , we adopted a constitution during the year and the officers that are erm elected are the Chair , the Secretary and the Treasurer , erm and other , together with other such officers , yeah to determine by general meeting , erm , so it 's really only those three , er and we have sometimes had Advice Chair if there 's only been one Chairman have n't we , one Chair person erm so I think people need to say if they do n't wish to carry on the jobs they 're doing and if anybody wishes to nominate anyone in a particular post then slip at the bottom of the minutes could be filled in and either brought to meeting or sent back to the Secretary . |
| 14 | The cult of sport sometimes seems to take on the quality of an Orwellian nightmare . |