Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her successor , Margaret Moore , successfully carried on the established pattern . |
| 2 | Your shopping receipts will suddenly take on a new significance ! |
| 3 | Your shopping receipts will suddenly take on a new significance ! |
| 4 | On the contrary , if the student body were to take its right to learn ( Lernfreiheit ) seriously , and were to be vigilant in seeing that it enjoyed the kinds of academic freedom I spelt out earlier , it would necessarily take on an assertive role . |
| 5 | The trick is to augment this top light with more accented and directional lighting , so switch on a nearby standard or table lamp . |
| 6 | She sat on the edge of his bedding , leaving her hand where it was , the physical contact suddenly taking on a new meaning . |
| 7 | This was a cardboard cylinder with a light bulb inside , which rotated and sent out pulses which purportedly brought on a transcendental state . |
| 8 | She always smiled and only put on an angry face when she was being teased . |
| 9 | That humble little abode for plant pots , trowels and gro-bags has suddenly taken on a new meaning in the light of the latest Sunday night shocker Lady Chatterley . |
| 10 | Mr Copeland also worked out what would have happened if a competing firm in the same industry had merely taken on the same amount of debt as the LBO did , without being bought out . |
| 11 | He plans to continue his involvement with Linlithgow Union Canal Society and , added , ‘ I 'm young enough to take on a new challenge . ’ |
| 12 | One more summer term to winter still the house had not looked upon anyone she saw as suitable enough to take on a satisfactory residence within her proud walls , if only she was . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , assistant manager Terry McDermott claimed Newcastle are good enough to take on the Premier League now and still be winners . |
| 14 | There were some excellent investigative programmes from Panorama , World in Action , This Week , First Tuesday and Twenty-Twenty Vision , which probed government scandals in the 1980s , but no journalist was bold enough to take on the Prime Minister herself . |
| 15 | It ultimately failed and the shipowners emerged victorious , offering only to take on an extra man on each ship to reduce unemployment . |
| 16 | In addition to those covenants mentioned by Scott LJ above examples of those which have been deemed to touch and concern the land include : a covenant for quiet enjoyment ; a covenant by the landlord agreeing to supply a housekeeper to clean a block of flats ; a covenant in which a landlord agreed not to open a public house within half a mile of the tenanted premises ; a covenant placing an obligation on the tenant to repair ; and a covenant in which the tenant agreed not to carry on a particular trade at the premises . |
| 17 | The annual summer event , held in Castle Park , normally takes on a Victorian theme but organisers decided to change it to coincide with July 4 . |
| 18 | Employers could not pass on the extra costs to the consumers either at home or abroad because of international competition — British goods would have been even more expensive than foreign goods . |
| 19 | Well the other thing that 's in the back of my mind is I happen to know that Cath is just taking on a new worker |
| 20 | Relations with western Europe thus took on a high profile and Finland was among the EFTA countries seeking to negotiate with the European Communities ( EC ) a single European Economic Area [ see pp. 38307 ; 38353 ; 38 ] . |
| 21 | The whole net of relationships between community and subculture , class and centralizing monopoly capitalism thus took on a different shape . |
| 22 | The Cabriolet was already taking on an adaptable demeanour , but when I hit the distortion channel things became serious ; these humbuckers are capable of some pretty heavy stuff . |
| 23 | The compromise nevertheless allowed individual member states to diverge from this target , with the UK retaining its less ambitious aim of reaching the target by 2005 rather than 2000 , and Greece , Ireland , Portugal and Spain also not taking on a 2000 target for their individual performance . |
| 24 | Best taken on an empty stomach so half an hour before food . |
| 25 | And then I met someone from the Kaplan galleries which showed thinking bishops in their robes such as you see in the windows of the galleries in St James'/ The gallery had just taken on a new director and were proposing to show modern art — people like Tinguely and Marcelle Cahn who at that time were n't known . |
| 26 | " The old bird we were chasing just put on an extra spurt , and I banged my chin on the ground so hard I though a tree had fallen on me ! " |
| 27 | Probably publicans were just carrying on an old tradition of involvement in popular sports . |
| 28 | This certificate normally carries on the reverse side a form of renunciation . |
| 29 | These are replacements but are still carried on the original pendentives . |
| 30 | Yet , as Samuel warns : ‘ even if nation is expelled from the class-room , it will still carry on an underground existence in the corridors and playground and an altogether more uninhibited one on television and the football terraces . |