Example sentences of "[vb pp] on as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although my toys are an important collection , I am wary of them being looked on as investments or high-price commodities like works of art . |
| 2 | Take 3in tip cutting of pelargoniums intended to be grown on as standards . |
| 3 | He is talking this time of the short stories of Guy de Maupassant , only a few of which can perhaps be seized on as crime short stories before their time . |
| 4 | If a woman makes the slightest mistake it 's pounced on as evidence of her general incompetence . |
| 5 | A considerable part of these funds was passed on as dinar loans to domestic enterprises . |
| 6 | but how do you I mean do you have to be taken on as officers of the R A F |
| 7 | Those who succeed are taken on as business management trainees . |
| 8 | The benevolent influence of a family , such as that depicted in the first chapter of Tom Brown 's Schooldays , reached out to the tenants and other members of the local community ; the girls from the cottages came into the big house as dairy or nursery-maids ; the boys were taken on as under-gardeners or grooms . |
| 9 | Each leaf section will produce a small plant , which should be potted up initially into a 2–3in pot , and potted on as growth dictates . |