Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In such fields a double need arises : to harmonise licensing requirements for companies intending to carry on the activities in question , and to establish essential standards for the prudential supervision of companies providing financial services . |
| 2 | If only she was alive today to pass on the secrets of her success . |
| 3 | How then , did these early , isolated molecules , take on the trappings of life ? |
| 4 | Josie switched on the lights for the department 's makeup mirror , and Lucy winced as the brightness hit her . |
| 5 | Margaret Thatcher was one of the greatest supporters of a classless society , not just I 'm not just talking about the silver spoon in one 's mouth , it 's the sometimes the stainless steel spoons of the middle class that erm that is a lot of the trouble , and no-one took on the establishments of the professional bodies erm and who have been over the years had a great deal of privilege in this country more than Margaret Thatcher . |
| 6 | Continuing this political enquiry we should note the belief that was once expressed with some confidence that as workers became more affluent they would take on the values of the middle classes in their society . |
| 7 | You need your Warlord near his troops to pass on the benefits of his leadership and to get stuck in alongside the Boyz . |
| 8 | This means that we can pass on the benefits to policy holders such as yourself by either reducing the policy charges or indeed er increasing the bonuses wherever possible . |
| 9 | It can be extremely frustrating for people who have to travel to London and face the expense of preparing a case — sometimes employing parliamentary counsel to put their case — knowing that decisions are not necessarily taken on the merits of the arguments but on political considerations . |
| 10 | At the same time , the proportion of freight carried on the railways between 1980 and 1990 dropped from 9% to 7% , while the proportion using road transport rose to 83% . |
| 11 | Bowled over … the girls taking on the boys at their own game . |
| 12 | Relatives had taken on the boys of her family but did not want the responsibility and lower wages of the girls . |
| 13 | It was then that we took on the giants of the Premier Division , Clutton Town , in the FA Cup . |
| 14 | This is the heart of the notion of the inner city ; at the very moment that policy draws the boundaries of the inner city a place takes on the qualities of coherence that it does not possess , embodies all the contradictions that are part of the original concept . |
| 15 | With a group of other Australians , I first went there in 1973 , to see Graeme Langland 's Kangaroos take on the Lions before a much smaller crowd than honoured Ellery 's boys last year . |
| 16 | The hurricane would never blow itself out ; and at its eye was a figure already taking on the lineaments of a familiar enough twentieth-century ‘ type ’ , the male-dominated , passion-ridden female so well-known to the readers of the novels of Barbara Cartland . |
| 17 | The report comes as the Department of Trade and Industry takes on the tasks of the now defunct Department of Energy . |
| 18 | If I had the courage to grow out my hair and take on the streets without frill or face paint , bangles or heels and all such accessories of fear and vanity , then I would be seen far less and see much more . |
| 19 | The following survey was taken on the streets of Bradford . |
| 20 | You might get through a few months , gross good luck see you to a year , but from then on the odds against survival lengthened considerably . |
| 21 | Home Alone 2 : Lost in New York carries on the adventures of smart schoolboy Kevin who outwits blundering thieves Harry and Marv , played by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern . |
| 22 | The doctor must come from virtually nowhere if he is to join the powerful Irish representation which is anticipated will cross the Atlantic to take on the Americans at the height of summer . |
| 23 | ‘ It all depends on how he ( Brand ) plays , ’ said the Spanish star , delighted to be back in contention a week after finishing second in Switzerland and two weeks before he takes on the Americans in the Ryder Cup again . |
| 24 | Hanging on the hours like heliotropes |
| 25 | Trainer Henry Cecil , however , was satisfied enough to let All At Sea take on the likes of Arazi and Ireland 's Brief Truce . |
| 26 | The new firm will take on the likes of Prudential Re in America 's mainstream market for brokered property-casualty reinsurance ( the insurance that primary insurers themselves take out ) . |
| 27 | NCUBE TAKES ON THE TERAFLOPPERS WITH ORACLE-RUNNING 65,384-PROCESSOR NCUBE 3 FOR 1994 |
| 28 | To help publicise the launch of the airline , Branson had taken on the services of Tony Brainsby , a man whose hyperventilated style of press-arousal on behalf of such clients as Paul McCartney had made him a small legend in the pop world . |
| 29 | Does he not realise that many Members on both sides of the House and many staff who work here have to eat morning , noon and night in those cafeterias , and that there is a desperate need to take on the services of people who are qualified and at the forefront of their field in this subject ? |
| 30 | The affair , dubbed Baftagate by members of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts , is taking on the dimensions of a drama itself . |