Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the flickering candlelight , the withered features took on a grotesque appearance . |
| 2 | Mistakenly thinking it would do no harm to put her at her ease — she was a plain woman with the faintest smell of spirits on her breath even at ten o'clock in the morning — he had mentioned the interesting photographs hung on the stairway leading to the stalls . |
| 3 | It smelt of camphor as if the old clothes hanging on the racks had just been taken out of ancient chests . |
| 4 | In borrowing from structural linguistics the early structuralists took on the task of analysing signs and systems of signification . |
| 5 | The scene is before me as I write , the garden with its sun-warmed walls , the last of the black cherries hanging on the tree , the sky webbed with long pink clouds . |
| 6 | The gradual encroachment of the state in the succeeding centuries took on the dimensions of a tidal wave in the twentieth century . |
| 7 | In well-run firms , the right of the continuing partners to carry on the practice will be expressly recognised and the partnership agreement will contain detailed provisions as to the entitlements of outgoing partners ( Clause 20 ) . |
| 8 | Later in the sequence the gastric contents take on a slightly more homogeneous quality , which may be caused by a reduction in particle size , although more prolonged imaging would be required to confirm this conclusively . |
| 9 | In practice , many family members look to the female members to take on the lion 's share of responsibility for children , elderly relatives , the sick and the disabled , as well as domestic work , sometimes in addition to taking employment outside the home . |
| 10 | Like the rest , the ex-Croydon cars took on the visible signs of war , headlamp masks , white collision fenders and protective netting on the windows . |