Example sentences of "on [noun] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a crucial role for partnerships in taking on responsibility for the local co-ordination of education . |
| 2 | He had put on weight in the short time since going to Mrs Gracie 's ; he was plump . |
| 3 | The week before England took on Scotland for the Grand Slam , Harlequins travelled to Gloucester for a league match . |
| 4 | And Oxford take on Cambridge in the 119th Varsity Athletics match . |
| 5 | In any other case , bankruptcy proceedings must be begun in the county court for the insolvency district in which the debtor has resided or carried on business for the longest period during the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the bankruptcy petition ( r 6.9(2) ) . |
| 6 | Even if your company 's main task is , for example , to carry on business in the chemical industry , this can probably be changed , if you wish to , merely by going to the annual general meeting . |
| 7 | A company is allowed to carry on business in the usual way until steps are taken to enforce the charge . |
| 8 | Three main developments should be noted : ( 1 ) the opening up overseas of branch offices of English or Welsh partnerships ; ( 2 ) the creation of new partnerships overseas carrying on business in the English firm-name and involving some , or all , of the English partners together with foreign lawyers ( the counterpart of the multi-national practices which will shortly be set up in the UK ) ; ( 3 ) associations between English and foreign ( typically from the USA ) firms to carry on business together in a third country or as a regional or transnational grouping . |
| 9 | the transaction , even if internal and concluded between persons carrying on business in the same State , produces effects in another State ; |
| 10 | Redcar take on Ripon in the first round of the Yorkshire Cup and Andy Rogers replaces Jim Butcher at prop , while Mike Donoghue returns to the second row . |
| 11 | He turned down £1.5 million to fight someone even less credible than Foreman in April , a guaranteed £5.5m to take on Bowe for the undisputed crown next summer , an opportunity to win the titles in the ring and the star prize , a chance to fulfil his avowed lifetime ambition . |
| 12 | Buckinghamshire under 21s are taking on Yorkshire in the semi final of the county championship … kick-off is at 2 |
| 13 | It became the last stop for taking on provisions for the large convoys of merchant and naval ships crossing the Atlantic . |
| 14 | She is trying for a Fleet Street career — but vowed to carry on actions against the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail . |
| 15 | Even though the annual value of these rights could hardly have been as much as £100,000 a year , the Company was ready to outdo the Bank of England and the East India Company and take on £9½m. of the National Debt , which would have been about a quarter of the total outstanding after the Treaty of Utrecht . |
| 16 | The County Union is looking into the Boyce Hill boy 's absence and Lockwood will wait for the outcome before he names the squad to take on Hertfordshire in the second match in July . |
| 17 | Fans perhaps remember him best in Carry On Doctor as the hapless Dr Kilmore , who is found in compromising positions with nurses . |
| 18 | Potential difference of amplitude appearing across the entire secondary of the source transformer T 1 is connected through the unknown impedance Z 1 to the whole , one-tenth and so on tappings of the upper primary of the detector transformer T 2 through a range switch . |