Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | With that he started putting on the shabby jacket he always kept hanging on the hook on the back door . |
2 | The dismantling of the welfare infrastructure and the encouragement of the pursuit of profit has at times taken on the mantle of a moral endeavour . |
3 | Put on , on the bottom of the blank line , rather than putting it top of the total line . |
4 | Fortunately , Britain takes on the presidency of the European Community on July 1 so the Prime Minister could convene a conference to rethink the Maastricht conclusions . |
5 | Taking on the presidency at a low point in Italian political life ( his predecessor , Giovanni Leone , had resigned over the Lockheed scandal , and Prime Minister Aldo Moro had recently been assassinated by the Red Brigades — see pp. 29053-55 ) , Pertini was credited with restoring the country 's confidence and self-respect . |
6 | It does not necessarily follow that any individual who has not taken on the attitude of the generalized other is any less complete than the person who has and acts accordingly . |
7 | Her major musical films included Evergreen ( 1934 ) , an untidy but profitable adaptation of a West End stage success ; First a Girl ( 1935 ) , in which Matthews amusingly impersonates a female impersonator in a British version of the German Viktor und Viktoria , and the fascinating It 's Love Again ( 1936 ) , in which Matthews is a struggling dancer who takes on the character of a fictional celebrity dreamed up by two desperate newspaper men . |
8 | This ruling appeared to have been accepted , however reluctantly , by Sassou-Nguesso , and during April the conference began to take on the character of a national assembly . |
9 | Inexplicable , unprecedented and catastrophic , Waldsterben took on the character of an apocalyptic plague . |
10 | Last summer , the place took on the air of a cheap seance , with ringing bells and flickering lights . |
11 | If my information is helpful to Eliot , who apparently has the energy to carry on the struggle against the new overlords , then he is welcome to it . |
12 | He said decisions were likely to be taken on the treaty in the New Year . |
13 | Although some doctors carry on the tradition of the medical profession in refusing to accept these ‘ outsiders ’ , more are now realising that osteopaths and chiropractors can relieve pain . |
14 | Dan Wagoner 's own new work , first staged in Plymouth in October , has a jokey title , Turtles All The Way Down , and has something to do with a Bertrand Russell lecture when it was suggested that the Earth is not round but carried on the back of a giant tortoise which stands on turtles all the way down . |
15 | In her room , Belinda put on the dress with an uncertain frown . |
16 | We have discussed this possibility with the company and have been informed that they are unwilling to take on the operation on a commercial basis . |
17 | Baldwin and Samuel said that they were willing to serve under the Prime Minister and render all help possible to carry on the Government as a National Emergency Government until an emergency bill or bills had been passed by Parliament , which would restore once more British credit and the confidence of foreigners . |
18 | Instead they took on the passivity of the adored object in an equation — homosexual desire translated into female adoration — that has haunted English pop ever since from the Beatles through the Bay City Rollers to Wham ! ; as one of Wham 's managers , Simon Napier-Bell , makes explicit in his memoir of the sixties : |
19 | I sha n't take on the marchioness without the right weapons . " |
20 | In other words , whilst women , as it were , merely conducted the animal-like repetitive tasks of carrying on the reproduction of the human race , men , by one supreme symbolic act , imposed themselves upon nature and enacted a cultural rebirth . |
21 | The summary is essentially confined to factual information , otherwise it would take on the shape of a formal report requiring certain strict legal procedures — of which more later . |
22 | A major chain of small grocery shops has taken on the might of the big wholesalers in a battle over the right to sell newspapers . |
23 | Such was the confidence of the little girl they used to call ‘ Shorty ’ at school that she was now considering taking on the might of the English legal system . |
24 | It was beginning to take on the aspect of a full-scale expedition , and both women were looking forward to it immensely . |
25 | When meditating deeply before such an idol it appears as if the image takes on the aura of a live human-being . |
26 | In the light of such feelings , the denial of the existence of class takes on the force of a moral imperative , rather than a statement of fact . |
27 | The two sisters were both in their fifties , both ex-nurses , neither ever married ; they 'd taken on the restaurant as a late-life decision when their father had died and left them a shared inheritance . |
28 | In their hands , structural anthropology and semiology took on the study of the structural form of meaningful systems . |
29 | The House will wish to satisfy itself that any decision to enact the Bill is taken on the basis of a full consideration of that assessment of the Bill 's environmental effects . |
30 | The cult of sport sometimes seems to take on the quality of an Orwellian nightmare . |