Example sentences of "[to-vb] on a [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they have been just very bad , and if they have someone to stand up for them , they are given three strokes of the whip , usually by Sheldon Parry , the born-again television director , and then made to put on a short green smock for the duration of the service . |
| 2 | priding themselves on their hard-headedness , they were eventually prepared to take on a poor commercial risk , or found a college as a pure give-away gesture , in order to win a richer prize — prestige . |
| 3 | What could be more appropriate than for it to take on a great nineteenth-century house to complement the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century interiors at Ham and Osterley ? |
| 4 | ( Given this prestige , it would he unseemly for him to take on a menial local job . ) |
| 5 | So by the time you 've played around with type sizes , switched fonts and merged text with graphics the whole document is beginning to take on a whole new look . |
| 6 | If by it we mean a support system to strengthen and assist those who wish to engage in political lobbying , well and good , but if we are to take on a proper campaigning role as Oxfam has done , then this would require additional staff with the necessary experience and specialisation . |