Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some theorize that income distribution is mainly a result of government action ( wage policy , taxation , etc. ) while per capita income is mainly a result of transnational forces ( for example , the price that exports bring on the world market ) . |
| 2 | Sometimes it is possible to decide what particular activities bring on an attack of giddiness . |
| 3 | All readers hang on a minute Careto Profaine good stuff . |
| 4 | The sun has warmed the walls of the garden , the cherries hang on the tree . |
| 5 | I do remember seeing two — maybe three — cars pass on the Silcaster road , but I did n't notice anything shown up in their headlights . ’ |
| 6 | Mikey Smith was stoned to death but his words live on de same |
| 7 | Our relationships take on a completely new dimension as we deepen our relationship with God . |
| 8 | Together the two relationships take on a more dynamic quality and the determinate relationship is mediated by human practice . |
| 9 | Crackers and flares take on a whole new meaning when you work for the Olefines business . |
| 10 | Singing together unifies and inspires us ; music touches our emotions , and words take on a deeper meaning . |
| 11 | If the analyst normalises to the conventional written form , the words take on a formality and specificity which necessarily misrepresent the spoken form . |
| 12 | Wiz sounds as elusive and fragile as ever — lost somewhere in his own private world — while musically the songs take on a rougher-edged , gritty power . |
| 13 | The police and the majority of defendants put on an arrogant front . |
| 14 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |
| 15 | Westminster NALGO is predicting massive redundancies in the borough unless private companies take on the existing staff . |
| 16 | The barriers take on a variety of forms including cartel agreements or arrangements , national market organisations ( such as co-operatives or trade associations ) which discriminate against other EC nationals , and abusive monopolisation of markets . |
| 17 | In March or April the flocks take on an even whiter appearance as the males moult into ‘ whiter than white ’ plumage with only a black mantle . |
| 18 | Hedgerows take on an additional dimension on foggy days ; when the distant landscape is blotted out immediate surroundings assume a new prominence . |
| 19 | Many in the music business sneer at coverage in the regional press but Gedge has always encouraged it , especially in the Middleton paper where articles take on the role of a public letter home . |
| 20 | Events in our own lives take on a pattern , as if we really were walking with God in our midst , guided continually by his presence . |
| 21 | Later in the sequence the gastric contents take on a slightly more homogeneous quality , which may be caused by a reduction in particle size , although more prolonged imaging would be required to confirm this conclusively . |
| 22 | EVENTS / Conkering heroes take on the world |
| 23 | As a Celtic-mad kid of 11 , Creaney stood wide-eyed on the Parkhead terraces to watch his heroes take on the best in Europe . |
| 24 | The therapists take on the role of director , facilitator , organizer , reinforcer , and teacher . |
| 25 | In effect governments take on a commitment to support a part of the costs of several hundred projects at any one time , such ‘ counterpart funding ’ in countries like Kenya or Tanzania frequently amounts to a nominal commitment of about $200 million per year . |
| 26 | Strangely , as they soar ever upwards , the balloons take on a mushroom-shape as if there 's been a nuclear explosion beneath . |
| 27 | His judgements take on the ex-cathedra ring of a Lawrence : ‘ I believe in you as a painter . ’ |
| 28 | A third group of carers take on the job because they feel that they have to . |
| 29 | Although his wife 's chintz chaircovers bring on a certain nausea whenever I am obliged to call . " |
| 30 | When tenants take on a lease they may make extensive alterations to the premises in order to make them better suited to the type of catering enterprise they intend to undertake . |