Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not outsiders who began and brutally carried on this war . |
| 2 | No effort has been made to enhance the room , unless you count three small prints randomly hung on separate walls , Une Baigneuse by Seurat , a Degas of a woman drying her hair and a Bonnard of another woman in a bath . |
| 3 | For a time he adopted a Stoical attitude to outface suffering , but this only brought on middle age prematurely . |
| 4 | The two main additional floors are largely carried on new masonry crosswalls which are , in turn , carried on their own new strip-footing foundations . |
| 5 | Cattle were no longer taken on long drives , but were delivered by rail and cattle drives were then made illegal . |
| 6 | On the back of their expected thirty thousand pound cash injection they 've already taken on extra staff . |
| 7 | The photographs in the Leica were the only pictures of the flier that were ever taken on British soil . |
| 8 | Particularly when VATable goods are usually taken on firm sale and have tighter credit periods than bookselling . |
| 9 | I understood how and why Jean-Claude had so enthusiastically taken on this work . |
| 10 | There might have been an economic argument for Britain to stay out , but the decision was quite clearly taken on political grounds . |
| 11 | Three of its board directors have also taken on additional responsibilities and have duly been retitled group executive directors . |
| 12 | ‘ People are often taken on short-term contracts , proper jobs are very hard to come by . |
| 13 | Day 6 ) From the guidebook : ‘ More stupid pictures are now taken on Grand Canyon trips than the combined total of all stupid pictures taken elsewhere . ’ |
| 14 | Helping governors and parents to see how well a school is doing and explaining or defending the school has now taken on another dimension : comparisons with other schools leads to one set of questions while the extent to which the school is organized in accordance with the national curriculum and within the national framework of pupil assessment leads to different , inward-looking enquiries . |