Example sentences of "[v-ing] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morrow laughed , bringing on another attack of smoker 's cough . |
| 2 | This Minton did , afterwards taking Tindle back to Hamilton Terrace where his large picture , The Death of Nelson , still in progress , was hanging on one wall . |
| 3 | We might , in the process , find that there is no need for in depth designing and costing on each scheme . |
| 4 | They all speak excellent English and going on last year , are so pleased to be in Britain and so appreciative of everything arranged for them that they make an easy and rewarding group to entertain . |
| 5 | We just thought we 'd better come and explain what had been going on last night . ’ |
| 6 | Gloriously obliv oblivious of what 's going on next door , it could be a huge substructure , deregulation the new in thing . |
| 7 | If I 'd of had bi I 'd have phoned the police and told them there 's something awful going on next door . |
| 8 | It 's also done a publisher 's version of reverse engineering with Reed International Plc 's Cahners Publishing subsidiary , that will see Systems Integration Business folded and Reed taking on Digital News and blending it with its own Digital Review . |
| 9 | Its Market is unquestionably one of the best in Wales with designated market days being Wednesdays and Saturdays , but Fridays are taking on increasing importance . |
| 10 | ‘ Marriage can succeed for an artist only where there is enough money to save him from taking on uncongenial work and a wife who is intelligent enough to understand and respect the working of the unfriendly cycle of the creative imagination . |
| 11 | The organization is infectious ; many people have joined intending to make a small , easily-managed commitment and ended up doing three or four shifts a week and taking on extra work until sometimes their whole life becomes bound up in the organization . |
| 12 | Observers suggested that Azerbaijan 's military action was taking on renewed force following the victory of nationalist leader Abulfez Elchibey in presidential elections [ see p. 38976 ] . |
| 13 | She also enjoyed taking on occasional press and public relations assignments , and brings that experience to her present work . |
| 14 | Infolink , the UK 's leading credit information organisation , said consumers in most regions remain prudent in taking on new credit commitments . |
| 15 | Our travellers also noticed that the highly profitable Japanese office automation lines , sold in the home market and historically proprietary , are now taking on new Unix guises . |
| 16 | The position was rectified only slowly , the USA taking on first part and then , by the end of 1947 , the whole of the burden . |
| 17 | However various kinds of feminists might wish it otherwise , women play a mix of roles in present-day British society : they are wives , mothers , daughters and paid workers , and they somehow juggle all these roles together , largely by taking on part-time work which , as Land points out , is seriously marginalised when it comes to occupational benefits . |
| 18 | Since he had been hailed as the new John Edrich and had already shown himself capable of taking on that mantle , it was a bad blow for England . |
| 19 | Read this proliferating , surging , skipping , mocking , smiling , looping torrent — what an enterprise it is — a man taking on human language . |
| 20 | The message of The First of the Few ( 1942 , Spitfire in the US ) , a biopic of the life of R. J. Mitchell , is that the Spitfire was made possible by one man taking on short-sighted business executives and parsimonious government authorities . |
| 21 | An excessively elevated sense of standards means that there are difficulties about English Departments taking on overseas research students in numbers sufficient to help the university in its financial difficulties . |
| 22 | From 1964 onwards many mergers were actively encouraged by a Labour government seeking to reorganize British industry into large modern units capable of taking on foreign competition . |
| 23 | The role of ‘ Shipping Manager ’ is taking on unprecedented importance in the headquarter buildings of major manufacturers . |
| 24 | But what they were thinking of doing is taking on another person who could file plans away in the plan room once the , once sort of the midmorning rush of visitors had been cleared in , in Hudson House reception . |
| 25 | He had n't thought about himself , but with Tom taking on another farm , a farm that would one day be his own responsibility , it was hardly likely he would have time to take care of Seb too . |
| 26 | Oxford had a lot to do if they were to stand any chance of taking on Italian opposition . |
| 27 | It is a place of confluence , quite noisily so I imagine in winter or during the melting season , for rivers splash down into Arreau from east , west and south , at least four of them , with the Neste d'Aure here taking on more water for the journey north . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Not taking on more work yourself in order to take over financial responsibility from the primary sufferer while he or she continues to drink . |
| 30 | ECONOMIC indicators threw a rosy tint on the prospects for recovery today with polls showing businessmen more confident and consumers taking on more credit , while a leading pundit predicts a further 1pc interest rate cut this year . |