Example sentences of "on the " in BNC.
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1 | With many sexually active before their sixteenth birthday and with drug taking on the increase , education needs to start young . |
2 | From then on the number grew impressively fast . |
3 | The multitude of Madonnas for Italian worship in the Renaissance made this a fruitful theme for connoisseurship which has taken on the task of distinguishing authentic works from those by followers or copyists . |
4 | The first year you 're running on adrenalin and you 're going to take on the world . |
5 | Friends talked the matter over far into the night and then went home , to their families or to the loneliness of dingy bed-sitting rooms , to carry on the debate in diaries and notebooks , poems and letters . |
6 | Running a modern-day coaching inn became a fashionable activity after the painter John Fothergill took on the Spread Eagle at Thame in the 1920s and , later , the Three Swans at Market Harborough . |
7 | Loiseau took on the challenge . |
8 | He asked me where a ladder like that could be found , and I took him round to the one that hangs on the side of the potting shed . |
9 | The linoleum tiles in the middle area of the floor were rimmed by some new type of carpet , there was a false ceiling and false blinds had been hung on the walls . |
10 | And after all , what price can you put on the immense satisfaction of taking dew-fresh vegetables to the kitchen within minutes of harvesting them ? |
11 | From then on the stall training must be continued , with a little done on every flight . |
12 | It is by making use of this complexity of an extended observing participation I believe anthropology can edge beyond its contemporaries in the other social sciences , so that the ‘ thick description ’ which Geertz ( 1975 ) urged us to use , takes on the ‘ finer grain and detail ’ necessary for an anthropology at home ( MacDonald 1987 : 120 ) where access to the social group or community studied is readily available to any demand for analytic reassessment . |
13 | In the main , the college has produced little radical comment or research of note during the four decades of its existence , for the various chief officers have jealously ensured that any consolidation of ideological excellence at this location has been neutered , and under Home Office direction its senior courses have primarily been used to provide a stream of suitably acquiescent candidates for the ACPO ranks , who readily take on the symbols and metaphors of dominance which feed the appetite for power Stead warns against . |
14 | She cleared her desk onto the floor , made coffee and switched on the typewriter . |
15 | She put on the other record , save Pergolesi for later when surely they 'd be alone . |
16 | Pretzels , I say , for God 's sake , bring on the pretzels . |
17 | They were in a windowless hole of a dressing room , backstage of the El Paradiso — another charity , bring on the bloody drag ! |
18 | Was there a wind to swing the great plantation bell which he had brought home and hung on the oak beside the east gate ? |
19 | She switched on the television . |
20 | Geraldine switched on the television . |
21 | A nurse switched on the television in the lounge . |
22 | She stumbled to her feet , crossed the dark room and switched on the light . |
23 | He looked at the springy , sharp-edged lawn , the borders of stocks and pansies backed by honeysuckle and late roses , the baskets of purple trailing lobelias , red geraniums and white alyssum hanging on the walls . |
24 | I switched on the light in the bedroom . |
25 | I switched on the light in the hall . |
26 | I stepped forward and switched on the light in the kitchen . |
27 | There 's more light , Harriet has switched on the kitchen light . |
28 | Names like Danny Blanchflower and Christy Ring , shouts of ‘ Up Down ’ and ‘ C'm on the Dube ’ crowded into her mind from the dinner tables of her childhood . |
29 | You switch on the kettle and sit on the stool . |
30 | Groups order through us , we place a ‘ bulk ’ order and pass on the saving when we send out the disks . |