Example sentences of "[vb infin] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fisher , who had gone to Melbourne briefly in 1897 with high hopes of being selected for Australia , was determined to see Otago cricket prosper , and convinced the local authorities that Crawford would be the type of coach who could bring on the young Otago players . |
| 2 | But the compensations for being unable to read or carry on a casual conversation are overwhelming . |
| 3 | He suggests a reason for this — the power of habit : " People can carry on a great tradition while proposing a philosophy which denies its premises . |
| 4 | They can carry on a normal life like going to school or work and having fun with their family and friends , but they will be infectious to other people for the rest of their lives . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , sounds can carry on a quiet evening and you do n't want your father asking why you were acting daft . |
| 6 | A delegation travelled to Lisbon to present their case ; FLEC-Renewal president José Tiburcio Luemba called on Portugal to revise the agreements which had brought about the independence of Angola in 1975 , and said that his movement would carry on an armed struggle until independence for Cabinda had been achieved . |
| 7 | Yet , as Samuel warns : ‘ even if nation is expelled from the class-room , it will still carry on an underground existence in the corridors and playground and an altogether more uninhibited one on television and the football terraces . |
| 8 | Do carry on the good work , in September with encouragement to all new people in your class , and in January with the renewal of your own membership . |
| 9 | Hopefully it will take constructive criticism well and will carry on the excellent scientific work of the NCC . |
| 10 | She has suffered much in the last decade but that experience has given her the inner fortitude to shoulder the emotional burden she must carry on the next stage of her life 's journey . |
| 11 | Young birds learn from their parents and will carry on the same method . |
| 12 | The business sale agreement will usually provide that , if a VAT liability arises from a supply which the parties expected to be outside the scope of VAT , the consideration will be VAT exclusive where this is caused by a breach of warranty by Newco ( for example , that it will carry on the same kind of business as the vendor after completion ) . |
| 13 | Her personal life ceases to mean a great deal to her ; the main focus of her interests may take on a strong religious flavour . |
| 14 | ‘ I am sure that as classes get bigger and lectures replace the old tutorial and seminar systems , books will take on a higher perceived value as they become more central to the course . ’ |
| 15 | Other modules like ‘ History of art ’ , ‘ Media studies ’ and ‘ Tourism ’ already have or can take on a European context . |
| 16 | This is noticeable after a long soak in the bath ; the pads of your fingertips will take on a wrinkled appearance . |
| 17 | Today , in the early 1990s there seems to be every possibility their taste for autocracy and power might persuade the police that secrecy should take on a new dimension , so that sedition could acquire new status as a deviance , while even the ‘ espionage ’ of ethnography could well become actionable . |
| 18 | This means that an artist can take on a new manager who can — take commission on all new projects , while the former manager continues to earn from all previous albums for a specified time . |
| 19 | His long-held belief that spinners could not be trusted had been vindicated , and from now on Test cricket would take on a new dimension . |
| 20 | I can look after her , Dorothea thought , and we will do the garden together , I shall take on a new lease of life . |
| 21 | Wilson ( 17 ) has suggested that to exploit the potential market , producers must take on a new , invigorating , active , forward-looking stance and lay aside the conservatism , traditionalism and isolation which have hindered development in the past . |
| 22 | Your shopping receipts will suddenly take on a new significance ! |
| 23 | Both there and at Keetmanshoep the Germans built headquarters stations which could take on a new strategic role in time of war . |
| 24 | No longer will there be any threat or coldness , for the compassion softens everything and all life can take on a new meaning . |
| 25 | Best of all , his work would take on a new virility once he rooted himself in the earth and responded to what he called its ‘ music ’ , experiencing its moods as ‘ symphonic , dramatic ’ . |
| 26 | While a white working-class female psychologist may take on a new professional identity which erases her class background , a black woman psychologist of any class is always distanced from such an identity by her ‘ race , . |
| 27 | Such movements , however , do not necessarily and simply entail the substitution of a smaller conjugally-based family for a traditional extended family ; rather it would appear that at these times kin may take on a new significance , and that we may need to look at a network of relationships much wider than the conjugal family . |
| 28 | Your shopping receipts will suddenly take on a new significance ! |
| 29 | Finance may take on a new urgency . |
| 30 | Under this circumstance , the ‘ old ’ attitudinal stance must take on a new meaning , if it is to be repeated in the changed context , inasmuch as it will be directed against different counter-attitudes . |