Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are concerns that , once released , GEMs might exhibit some previously unknown pathogenicity , might take over from some naturally occurring bacteria or pass on some perhaps unwanted trait to indigenous bacteria . |
| 2 | Unless you do something about it you will be losing money — money you could have invested in new equipment , or better marketing , or taking on more employees . |
| 3 | They often study psychology after developing some expertise in it through education , community , health , or social services work , and they usually return to or take on such work , rather than becoming professional psychologists . |
| 4 | Well I know that my , if I was to name my busiest member of staff , it 's the person that took on that |
| 5 | The leaflets , softer in tone than much of the BMA campaign , suggest that hospitals that fail to compete in the new NHS market could go bankrupt ; GPs will be forced to compete for patients , with those that take on more having less time for patients ; while ‘ opted out ’ hospitals may drop some specialist services if they are not financially viable . |
| 6 | Sooner or later , however , Mr Gandhi will decide to cut the puppets ' strings and bring on another election . |
| 7 | We might , in the process , find that there is no need for in depth designing and costing on each scheme . |
| 8 | All she wanted was not to know again , so that she could stay a little child and never have to grow up and face the world without her mother to wake her in the mornings and teach her things and tell her stories and pass on all her wisdom about the world and men and how babies came and why the best any woman could hope for in this life was to be able to make one man happy . |
| 9 | Add power to cruise revs ( all the while keeping the yoke fully aft ) and roll on more bank until the upper wing is almost vertical , and the Aircoupe will twizzle round like a good ‘ un , with nary a murmur or complaint , and will even climb in this state on a good day . |
| 10 | Is there anyone in the area who might consider joining us and taking on this position ? ’ |
| 11 | In later chapters we shall see Marxist writers borrowing fundamental theoretical notions , not just from Morgan , but also from others , such as the British anthropologist Taylor , and the German anthropologist Ratzel , and taking on these writers ' simple-minded theories of history in spite of the fact that they were influenced by philosophical positions totally foreign to Marxism . |
| 12 | Part of the point of selling state businesses is to raise hard cash , and taking on more debt to fund worker buyouts in return for low or non-earning equity stakes ( which may prove to be worthless in the long run ) is not a real option for the government . |
| 13 | She wants women to pay more attention to their achievement needs , and ends with a celebration of throwing off feminine values , and taking on some masculine ones : giving up ‘ guilt and shame and the tireless self-discipline of women ’ for ‘ magnanimity and generosity and courage ’ ( 1971 : 330 ) . |
| 14 | The aim is to ease the stress of house-buying by giving advice and taking on some of the workload . |
| 15 | My day starts when I climb into my ‘ green machine ’ and switch on that ‘ phone . |
| 16 | Taking a gamble , Seb bought a second plough and took on another ploughman . |
| 17 | The Prince was becoming enthused , and as he grew more confident about the area he had targeted and took on more projects , he began to make increasingly serious and significant speeches . |
| 18 | Well my my mother had five children with her previous husband and my father met my mother while this fella was ill and he eventually died with T B and my father married my mother and took on these five children i in , in South Wales . |
| 19 | Later , she gave up the childminding and took on some secretarial work in the mornings which still allowed her to continue with her lunch-time job . |
| 20 | ‘ It shall be the duty of every local authority to enforce within their district the provisions of this Act and of the orders made under those provisions , and for that purpose to institute and carry on such proceedings in respect of contraventions of the said provisions and such orders as aforesaid as may be necessary to secure observance thereof . |
| 21 | Under section 71(1) of the Act , it is the duty of each local authority to enforce within its district the provisions of the Act and ‘ for that purpose to institute and carry on such proceedings in respect of contraventions of the said provisions … as may be necessary to secure observance thereof . ’ |
| 22 | Daniels proposed to add two forms to the Senior , one at the top and one at the bottom , and to take on another master . |
| 23 | He once swore , he said , that he would never give up his freedom and take on such a big post , but now here he is . |
| 24 | The reason for this lies in a theory called secondary reinforcement which says that the praise will become associated with the more powerful extra reward and take on some of the strong reinforcing properties of that reward . |
| 25 | The third reason why we 're , we 're pleased to see you here is that erm as a trades council , we 've and this er and Dick mentioned this in his introduction , we 've initiated a major international programme , major in terms of our size obviously as er as a local body , involving links between union activists here primarily in France er , in northern France , but also links now developing in Spain with the new ferry going between Portsmouth and Bilbao , we 're starting to meet with the unions in Spain who are interested in speaking about the , the , the differences in wages in terms and conditions working for the same ferry company , doing the same jobs in the port , a comparative look at how the , the wages terms and conditions differ and we want to , we want to go and visit them in the autumn and , and work out , and work on more links on a sector basis , so that our colleagues down in Bilbao in northern Spain can link up with people in the , in the , in similar sectors here and we 've done this over the last three and a half years with the unions in France , we 've had exchanges of all sectors , the public sectors , transport , erm , health , social services , shop workers . |
| 26 | ( 1 ) Subject to the provisions of these Rules , a body corporate may carry on business consisting of the provision of professional services such as are provided by individuals practising as solicitors or by multi-national partnerships provided that before commencing any such business such body corporate shall have been recognised by the Council as being a suitable body to undertake the provision of such services and provided that at all times while carrying on such business it remains so recognised . |
| 27 | We should consider whether taking on this role , in a context of inadequate overall expenditure , might not increase our administrative workload and the level of stress from our clinical work and adversely affect our relationships with our patients , our staff , and each other . |