Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] on [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these have several domes carried on pendentives and were built between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries . |
| 2 | In order to identify those most at risk and encourage potential restorers from the public and private sectors to take on buildings in need of rescue , the Buildings At Risk Service has been set up . |
| 3 | for heads to take on tasks themselves |
| 4 | I am in favour of that , but that is different from setting up international agencies whose legislation and ideas may have devastating effects on industries in western countries while leaving eastern countries to carry on processes over which the rest of us have no control . |
| 5 | He leant over to where keys hung on hooks in the wall and took a huge , rusting one down . |
| 6 | I wonder how fast other lenders pass on reductions and why the time varies . |
| 7 | More and more people these days take on step-grandchildren when their children marry . |
| 8 | Beside the path hung dishevelled pink chrysanthemums , like pink cloths hung on bushes ( 18 ) . |
| 9 | With just a few basic materials , I now have paintings hanging on walls in relatives homes . |
| 10 | Kerry Packer has launched a complex , lowly valued and hostile bid for Bond 's media interests whilst efforts to pass on stakes in British Satellite Broadcasting and Airship Industries have so far failed . |
| 11 | She says that flat paintings hung on walls are outmoded . |
| 12 | The chief superintendent had a corner office with a view down onto the place where tenders took on loads of aviation fuel from huge land-based tanks . |
| 13 | But in a first hint that she may be prepared to modify her views , the Prime Minister will tell the President that , if the deployment of new short-range missiles in Germany becomes unrealistic , Britain is certainly prepared to consider the alternative of stand-off missiles carried on Tornados . |
| 14 | Sets of dinner-plates have been muddled up , nozzles switched on candlesticks and there are thumb prints in the middle of each salver where the dealers have felt the thickness of the silver . |
| 15 | First the sadness and disarray , then the evanescent transcendence ; then the bodies put on clothes again , and there is a prowl of word and gesture before they go their separate ways . |
| 16 | Would the soil in their bodies pass on germs ? |
| 17 | The shadows took on forms and approached him , wreathed in the phantom smoke that matched that which had taken them from his life . |
| 18 | Although as Eleanor Gordon has remarked , the family wage was hardly a reality for most Scottish working-class families , its notional existence had an impact on wages paid to women : if the normal " women 's wage " was low , employers taking on women for newly created jobs were unlikely to look to the male rate as a guide . |
| 19 | To use the words of Henry James : ‘ in the light , strange and coloured , like that of a painted picture , which fixed the impression for her , objects took on values not hitherto so fully shown ’ . |
| 20 | Gareth 's eventual ambition is to become a freelance commercial artists taking on commissions for a living . |
| 21 | Looking recently at some vintage notes on the early nineteenth century , I was struck by how many were classified as ‘ useless ’ , one ‘ the worst possible ’ and another ‘ so bad that proprietors in desperation left grapes hanging on vines ’ . |
| 22 | There are 20 cloaks and robes hanging on pegs here , made of various materials but none identified by any visible insignia . |
| 23 | Numerous sponge bags hung on pegs , some with rubber ducks poking out ! |
| 24 | Another two jackets hung on hangers on pegs on the wall . |
| 25 | Brachiopods have probably always filter-fed , living off small organic particles brought on currents . |
| 26 | Forum theatre with two teachers taking on roles and children in two groups as advisers . |
| 27 | Norman was 19th in putting ( putts taken on greens hit in regulation ) ; Levi was 124th . |
| 28 | The Emperor rode on a finely bedecked mule led by six pages , and was concealed behind red curtains carried on poles . |
| 29 | That will not just include the admission of new partners and the nature of the partnership business ( which in the case of solicitors can not really changeand see ss24(7) and ( 8 ) above ) but will extend to matters of policysetting up new departments to take on types of work not previously accepted or closing departments which have proved unprofitable , opening and closing branch offices , expelling partners , changes to the name of the firm , raising additional capital from the partners themselves or by way of loan , and other matters which one way or another can significantly affect the liabilities of each partner . |
| 30 | Second , most lawyers take on cases on the basis that they will not ask for an upfront fee , but a percentage of the amount of damages won instead — often as much as 40% . |