Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had lunch in the parlour , a dreary room with slippery , brown leather chairs , a harmonium against one wall , and a case of dead , stuffed birds hanging on another . |
| 2 | ‘ He 'll need sons to carry on this place . ’ |
| 3 | Sir , I thought it appropriate as someone with 11 years ' tree planting and habitat management experience to pass on some hedge-cutting tips . |
| 4 | Unions also opposed a further government emergency measure of June 26 , creating a new wage indexing mechanism , which could only be used twice in a year and which forbade employers to pass on increased wage costs to consumers through higher prices . |
| 5 | Contemporary with the alterations to the main east-west road , at least one or perhaps two possible public buildings were constructed immediately to the south on Sites 1 and 2 , each with a frontage carried on four columns and set so close to the road that the new roadside drains had to be diverted . |
| 6 | I was really proud of having recorded one rhythm pass on all of ‘ Rust In Peace ’ though . ’ |
| 7 | At the ‘ buying ’ stage the department takes on all the roles of the critical customer , including complaining loudly , if the quality is n't sufficiently high . |
| 8 | A note on her office door explains that shifting heavy loads without the help of porters brought on muscular back spasms . |
| 9 | In this strange institution we did not even know all the people who worked in the same room as ourselves , as the action went on twenty-four hours a day , and we were on duty on varying shifts . |
| 10 | He would himself take on the Finance portfolio , with Minister of Agriculture Madun Dulloo taking on Foreign Affairs and further appointments to follow . |
| 11 | He admits that in the Eighties the card took on some people who were not quite of the calibre of its existing client portfolio . |
| 12 | Woodhill Echo went on last year to win a £1,000 open at Brough Park before finishing third in the Scottish Derby . |
| 13 | The front doors were almost bare of paint and shadows cast by the gas flame took on weird shapes . |
| 14 | Even when no political or social statement was intended , the most abstruse philosophical inquiry , the most obscure historical research , the narrowest psychological study took on political meaning . |
| 15 | Very few husbands took on any household chores . |
| 16 | Suddenly the one-off singles deal took on lengthier proportions and a second single was chosen from the pack . |
| 17 | The roof went on first . |
| 18 | Utopia significantly improves the management of vital technical information , track end-user requests , log all action taken on those requests , and also automatically escalate the routing of information to solve day-to-day problems . |
| 19 | Its counterpart on Ermine Street was a two-phase structure , beginning life as a building measuring 25.9 by 13.1 m ( 84½ by 43 ft ) , with a shingled roof carried on two rows of massive posts 5.8 m ( 19ft ) apart . |
| 20 | Though I have never heard of any one collaboration between restaurateur and artist proving more lucrative than the next , there does not seem to be any shortage of artists who will in effect take on certain risks in order to get their work out on the town . |
| 21 | It was to broaden the opportunities to take on this role , particularly for the new and smaller client , that the Law Society of Scotland introduced the Commercial Health Check scheme in April 1992 as part of Scottish Business Services . |
| 22 | The tolerance and willingness of schools to take on disruptive or time consuming pupils will change in the new climate of LMS . |
| 23 | Second , at the end of the Thatcher years welfare services have become more fragmented and pluralistic , characterised by " a blurring of boundaries and diffusion of power " ( Klein 1987 ) as the private and voluntary sectors take on new and more important roles as providers , and new types of public–private partnerships are formed . |
| 24 | In this case the message sent on the SWIFT system from the US bank to the UK bank is that your ( NOSTRO ) account has been credited by us with $10 000 , in return pass on this amount to the named beneficiary , the UK exporter . |
| 25 | Those organisms who have more offspring pass on more of their genes to the future and those genes are increasingly represented in the future if some kind of natural factor , like the environment or the climate or other organisms determine who has the greater reproductive success . |
| 26 | After 28,000 miles perhaps winning or losing takes on less significance . |
| 27 | Above Dorothea 's head , six new , blue mugs hung on six newly-erected hooks , for Florence Ames thought of all things and was constantly suggesting improvements — not that she insisted upon them or took anything in hand , only looked and suggested and then left the idea to be considered , accepted or rejected . |
| 28 | But adjustment went on all the same because it was the only way of making yourself tolerate a condition which you loathed . |
| 29 | In the Jon Hollingworth Inter-Departmental cup finals at Hammersmith , ITD took on Environmental in a battle for this year 's honours . |
| 30 | While Hewitt 's decision to use this term is based partly on his belief that there is no characteristic variety of English used solely by ethnic Caribbeans , it is also motivated by the lack of symbolic meaning attached to this variety : it was not the case that the London English of young blacks took on any specialized symbolic meaning of race or ethnicity . |