Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as Maastricht comes into force , the commission and Belgium , which takes on the EC presidency next month , intend to work however many hours a week it takes to push through the works-council directive . |
| 2 | A distinction between the state , as the institution which carries on the function of government , and the government as the politicians currently in office , makes it possible to oppose policies without denying legitimacy , or even to challenge the legitimacy of particular ministerial procedures , without confronting the constitution as a whole . |
| 3 | And in this issue , I review yet another anti-heron gizmo which switches on the fountain when the heron alights . |
| 4 | In some cultures the mother proceeds to the status of a matriarch , when she takes on the authority of mother to the whole extended family or tribe . |
| 5 | Her major musical films included Evergreen ( 1934 ) , an untidy but profitable adaptation of a West End stage success ; First a Girl ( 1935 ) , in which Matthews amusingly impersonates a female impersonator in a British version of the German Viktor und Viktoria , and the fascinating It 's Love Again ( 1936 ) , in which Matthews is a struggling dancer who takes on the character of a fictional celebrity dreamed up by two desperate newspaper men . |
| 6 | When the appointment of three arbitrators is required , each party chooses one arbitrator , and the arbitrators-dual appointed-dual in this way choose the third arbitrator and it is he who takes on the presidency of the arbitration authority . |
| 7 | ( 1937 , You 're in the Army Now in US ) , the improbable tale of an American hoodlum who takes on the identity of a murdered gambling companion and finds himself in the British Army , where he slowly comes to understand the habits of self-effacing Englishmen . |
| 8 | You play Indy , who takes on the Nazis as he searches for the precious power-giving material , Orichalcum . |
| 9 | He is survived by his wife , Betty , and his son Stuart ‘ Tiger ’ Surridge , who carries on the family firm . |
| 10 | She switches on the light . |
| 11 | He describes himself as a ‘ TV animal ’ who switches on the set at home as soon as he walks through the door . |
| 12 | Few of the facts are disputed , while everything hangs on the intention behind the actions . |
| 13 | Whoever takes on the trout farm will have their work cut out . |
| 14 | Notice that it takes on the formatting contained in the paragraph mark that follows it . |
| 15 | It reads as a separate vertical volume and without being an actual pedestal , it takes on the function of a pedestal . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | He takes on the role as band spokesman with relish and enjoys being interviewed , whether it be with the NME or a fanzine about to make its first appearance . |
| 18 | Then we would visualise an alarm clock with carrots for fingers and imagine that when the alarm goes off it switches on the television set . |
| 19 | ‘ You plug it in when you go away and it switches on the light for you at the same time every evening , and switches it off too . |