Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 'll need sons to carry on this place . ’ |
| 2 | Unions also opposed a further government emergency measure of June 26 , creating a new wage indexing mechanism , which could only be used twice in a year and which forbade employers to pass on increased wage costs to consumers through higher prices . |
| 3 | Contemporary with the alterations to the main east-west road , at least one or perhaps two possible public buildings were constructed immediately to the south on Sites 1 and 2 , each with a frontage carried on four columns and set so close to the road that the new roadside drains had to be diverted . |
| 4 | In this strange institution we did not even know all the people who worked in the same room as ourselves , as the action went on twenty-four hours a day , and we were on duty on varying shifts . |
| 5 | He would himself take on the Finance portfolio , with Minister of Agriculture Madun Dulloo taking on Foreign Affairs and further appointments to follow . |
| 6 | He admits that in the Eighties the card took on some people who were not quite of the calibre of its existing client portfolio . |
| 7 | Woodhill Echo went on last year to win a £1,000 open at Brough Park before finishing third in the Scottish Derby . |
| 8 | The front doors were almost bare of paint and shadows cast by the gas flame took on weird shapes . |
| 9 | Even when no political or social statement was intended , the most abstruse philosophical inquiry , the most obscure historical research , the narrowest psychological study took on political meaning . |
| 10 | Very few husbands took on any household chores . |
| 11 | Suddenly the one-off singles deal took on lengthier proportions and a second single was chosen from the pack . |
| 12 | Utopia significantly improves the management of vital technical information , track end-user requests , log all action taken on those requests , and also automatically escalate the routing of information to solve day-to-day problems . |
| 13 | Its counterpart on Ermine Street was a two-phase structure , beginning life as a building measuring 25.9 by 13.1 m ( 84½ by 43 ft ) , with a shingled roof carried on two rows of massive posts 5.8 m ( 19ft ) apart . |
| 14 | Though I have never heard of any one collaboration between restaurateur and artist proving more lucrative than the next , there does not seem to be any shortage of artists who will in effect take on certain risks in order to get their work out on the town . |
| 15 | It was to broaden the opportunities to take on this role , particularly for the new and smaller client , that the Law Society of Scotland introduced the Commercial Health Check scheme in April 1992 as part of Scottish Business Services . |
| 16 | After 28,000 miles perhaps winning or losing takes on less significance . |
| 17 | Sachin Tendulkar came in to a reception whose volume and pitch tended to confirm what Bishen Bedi had been saying about his sex appeal , and there was the arresting sight of a 41-year-old bowler taking on two batsmen whose combined age was 42 . |
| 18 | In the far South-west , Cornish mining took on female labour to a degree unusual in the southern part of the country . |
| 19 | As this agenda spreads to other sections of the press , to radio and to television , it produces a ‘ self-enforcing conformity ’ whose importance ‘ lies not in the nuances of attitude taken on different items on the political agenda , but rather in the common agreement on that agenda itself … ’ . |
| 20 | The completion accounts at the completion date shall be audited by ABC 's existing auditors , [ name ] and prepared on a basis consistent with prior years in so far as these are in accordance with accounting standards and generally accepted and adopted United Kingdom accounting practices for companies carrying on similar businesses save as defined in the purchase and sale agreement . |
| 21 | Financial Services — Unauthorised investments — Third party — Solicitors acting for companies carrying on unauthorised investment business — Whether Securities and Investments Board 's right of action for benefit of investors available against third parties — Whether action against solicitors to be struck out — Financial Services Act 1986 ( c. 60 ) , ss. 6(2) , 61(1) |
| 22 | In Durham the engine came to a halt to take on more coal and water . |
| 23 | Havant , the leaders , who travel to Chigwell to take on Old Loughtonians , will be without their left-half , Alan Cave , with a leg injury , with the likelihood that Steve Lawson will deputise . |
| 24 | Rovers take on lowly Southend at Prenton Park ( 7.30pm ) , and King explained : ‘ Southend are a physical side full of six-footers and we have to get behind them . |
| 25 | For once the Lovejoy actor 's old-fashioned charm deserted him as he plucked up courage to pass on some advice on her marriage lines . |
| 26 | I have no desire to pass on nasty stories about other people , not even when I know the facts of the case . |
| 27 | Not for him Classical decoration hung on utilitarian steel or concrete frames . |
| 28 | So nobody saw Rupert return to his house , or standing in his overcoat in the unheated hall , opening late Christmas cards , then going from room to room switching on electric fires . |
| 29 | Dr.BERRY TAKES ON TOP RESEARCH JOB |
| 30 | The arrangement evolving at a number of the resource management pilot sites , in which a doctor acting as clinical director takes on this role with assistance from a nurse manager and a business manager , indicates the likely direction of change . |