Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] on a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This was a cardboard cylinder with a light bulb inside , which rotated and sent out pulses which purportedly brought on a transcendental state . |
2 | 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 ] . |
3 | The whole net of relationships between community and subculture , class and centralizing monopoly capitalism thus took on a different shape . |
4 | For the causal relations of events would be just the same irrespective of whether or not the causal chain temporarily took on a mental aspect ( as in property dualism ) or ( as in substance dualism ) ‘ went mental ’ for a while . |
5 | The defendant in Southwark London Borough v. Charlesworth ( 1983 D.C. ) was a shoe repairer who also carried on a secondary business as seller of second-hand goods . |
6 | Eliot 's life , for the eight years still left to him , now took on a different pattern . |
7 | The station as a point of departure literally and metaphorically took on a particular intensity for the post-First World War generation of young British literati . |
8 | At the same time they maintained — and who could blame them ? — their party affiliations ; and once our mortal danger had passed these increasingly took on a partisan character . |
9 | When Pauline and Chris Lloyd of Dudley moved house then took on a new garden with a 1 in 3 slope . |
10 | With a hopeless shrug of resignation she hurriedly put on a slim linen dress , which she had only thrown into her case at the last minute . |