Example sentences of "on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Women builders can work from our workshops and take on private commissions , if they want to set up on their own , ’ she said . |
| 2 | YOUR VERY OWN MANAGER There has been a surge recently in the number of smaller fund management companies keen to take on private clients |
| 3 | There are more than 200 stockbroking firms eager to take on private clients , ranging from the independent , old-fashioned type of broker through to some of the larger international firms or subsidiaries of the clearing banks . |
| 4 | A council spokesman said said the decision to end the system was taken on economic grounds . |
| 5 | Or , it could be behaviour which is seen as eccentric or bizarre , such as not wearing shoes and socks in conventional situations or carrying on prolonged conversations with the plants in one 's garden . |
| 6 | Apparently this did not produce the desired reaction from Stanley , so Wyatt went on 17th December to see Scott who , with a disarming naïveté , immediately agreed to a proposal from Wyatt that he should take him on as an equal partner and relinquish half the work to him . |
| 7 | The nationwide protest against the Poll Tax has taken on historic proportions . |
| 8 | Our more natural inclination was to hide in the dim recesses of the games shed and carry on enthralling discussions about boyfriends and the origins of the universe . |
| 9 | He gradually took on full-time work in the same company , and gained three promotions within a year . |
| 10 | As time goes on , our membership and our finances will decide when we can take on full-time officials . |
| 11 | Although the LEA remains the employer of the staff in the school , the governors take on extensive powers over staffing and responsibilities under employment law . |
| 12 | Or again as Jevons says ‘ Originally a market was a public place in a town where provisions and other objects were exposed for sale ; but the word has been generalized , so as to mean any body of persons who are in intimate business relations and carry on extensive transactions in any commodity . |
| 13 | In addition , Invesco will take on European shares , while Gartmore accepts foreign shares , UK gilts and holdings in offshore funds . |
| 14 | Courses in the first , second and third years are chosen from biological and management sciences , Ecological Science and Agriculture ; in the fourth year study units will be taken on rural land management . |
| 15 | ‘ … a fiscal and accounting entity with self-balancing set of accounts recording cash and other financial resources together with all related liabilities and residual equities or balances and changes therein which are segregated for the purpose of carrying on specific activities or attaining certain objectives in accordance with special regulations , restrictions or limitations . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ People are often taken on short-term contracts , proper jobs are very hard to come by . |
| 17 | We might , in the process , find that there is no need for in depth designing and costing on each scheme . |
| 18 | The reason for an indemnity is that such a covenant does not automatically pass on each transaction ; the burden of it needs to be handed down expressly to each subsequent buyer . |
| 19 | But the trouble he took on each occasion was the same . |
| 20 | record the decision taken on each change , ie. approved or rejected , on the Changes Log |
| 21 | Finally , record the exercise that you take on each day that you record the details of your food and drink . |
| 22 | His whole life seemed to hang on each letter in Annie 's hand , his eyes following it until she handed it into the crowd or placed it on a pile to one side and then he would fix on the next letter and the next . |
| 23 | ( 3 ) If you are wise , you will have written the minutes of the previous meeting in such a way that the action to be taken on each item is recorded against it . |
| 24 | Boeing predicts that revenue passenger miles ( RPMs — the number of passengers carried on each flight multiplied by the distance of the flight ) will continue to grow by 5.4% a year over the next 15 years . |
| 25 | When the German army followed them , they kept on the move , taking on odd jobs along the way , until they ended up in Warsaw . |
| 26 | And yet men do have reason to be concerned if , on these occasions , women find their lonely anger or isolated oppression is understood and shared by other women , so that personal struggles take on political dimensions . |
| 27 | The final decision on where to apply for planning permission to build is certain to be taken on political grounds . |
| 28 | There might have been an economic argument for Britain to stay out , but the decision was quite clearly taken on political grounds . |
| 29 | But as we know that MI5 taps telephones and keeps files on people simply to pass on political information to the government , one can assume that Kinnock 's call to Turnbull is not the only piece of politicised telephone tapping that goes on . |
| 30 | Even when no political or social statement was intended , the most abstruse philosophical inquiry , the most obscure historical research , the narrowest psychological study took on political meaning . |