Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Managing Director Stuart Hyslop said the posters with slogans on issues including the poll tax , crime , health and employment are carried on a commercial cash basis and no other party has approached the company to book space . |
| 2 | ‘ Get in and socialise with the family , ’ Peter Shearer told Mr and Mrs M. You re not just teaching one child , you 're taking on the whole family , ’ this being a family of fifteen children , some with social and behavioural problems , and eight still of school age . |
| 3 | Balance sheet , quote for three thousand pounds to strip the existing roof covering , and basically well , they 're putting on a new roof . |
| 4 | There are now nearly 200 National Trust shops around the country , and the town shops , which are open all year round , are taking on a new look . |
| 5 | We have demonstrated against petty apartheid because we are taking on the entire system of apartheid on all fronts . |
| 6 | Trees are preparing for winter and their leaves are taking on the beautiful colours of autumn . |
| 7 | Holy Trinity 's young recruits are put on a ten-week course , followed by a residential weekend concentrating on ‘ the person and work of the Holy Spirit ’ . |
| 8 | It is a preference which is relatively easy to unlearn : when patients with high blood pressure are put on a low-sodium diet , within six to eight weeks many discover that the foods they used to eat seem unpleasantly salty . |
| 9 | This means they are taken on a daily basis to farms and other work-places outside the prison . |
| 10 | Present day ‘ time travellers ’ step into a specially designed car and are taken on an exciting trip through more than 1,000 years of Carrickfergus history . |
| 11 | The EEB declaration makes it clear that European environment groups ‘ believe that when decisions are taken on the respective competence of the Community , Member States and regional and local government in actions to protect the environment , the overriding objective must be to secure the highest quality of life for the Community 's citizens . |
| 12 | When the toggle keys are switched on a two-letter code appears in the Status Line ( see the screen on page 2 ) . |
| 13 | Further , even smaller corporates may be treated as non-private under Rule 5 — 5(4) where they : ( a ) are carrying on a main business which is not investment business ; ( b ) enter into a futures transaction as an integral part of its main business ; ( c ) have , in the firm 's reasonable belief , sufficient experience and understanding to waive protections provided for private customers ; and ( d ) have received a clear warning of the protections under the regulatory system which they would lose , including a statement of its rights to request to be treated as a private customer . |
| 14 | More interested in the style than the fashion , Huggy Bear are carrying on the feminist tradition of punk bands like The Slits and X-Ray Spex with all the musicality of Pete Duel & The Shit or Alien Sex Fiend . |
| 15 | Embedded in his initial instructions to Joshua concerning the actions the people are to take on the seventh day we find the clause , ‘ … when they make a long blast with the ram 's horn ’ . |