Example sentences of "taken on the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever action is taken on the final report of the Buea project ( and I have fears that the heavy reliance on expatriate experts in the project and in drawing up the report may not contribute to its being widely read and followed in Cameroon ) there can be no question that the project marks an important landmark in curriculum planning in Africa . |
| 2 | The surveyors until recently seemed to have permanently taken on the boom-led guise of deal-makers , Ken Houston writes in Property . |
| 3 | MAJOR-GENERAL Michael Skinner , who has died aged 60 , was Director General , Weapons , from 1986 to 1988 , when many important decisions were taken on the future equipment of the Army . |
| 4 | The dungeon had taken on the squalid smell of the cave back in hell . |
| 5 | The readings were taken on the right arm of the seated subject after a minimum of 10 minutes ' rest . |
| 6 | The second section shows the action taken on the particular version of the module , and the name of the LIFESPAN user who carried out the action . |
| 7 | He was taken on the indispensable visit to Holford Glen , and it was there , seated by the side of the brook , that the brief exchange took place which Coleridge was still repeating in his old age : ‘ Citizen John , ’ Coleridge remarked , ‘ this is a fine place to talk treason in ! ’ |
| 8 | They asked the individual chief officers to prepare reports to the committees on action that could be taken on the detailed recommendations of Friends of the Earth . |
| 9 | The discovery instead went to a professional astronomer , Konrad Rudnicki , who shortly thereafter found the comet on photographs taken on the large telescope at Palomar Mountain . |
| 10 | In his day he has taken on the big guns of industry , commercialised culture and of whole countries ( who can easily forget his devastating portrait of Mrs Thatcher and the fawning Saatchi brothers ? ) . |
| 11 | Mark Jones , the exhibition 's curator , has taken on the dual task of tracing the history of forgery from archaic Babylon to contemporary California , while at the same time tracing the history of how forgery is understood . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Clearly the point had arrived in September 1947 where fundamental decisions had to be taken on the American commitment to Korea . |