Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | hoping to dominate … the world of athletics this weekend is Gloucester hammer thrower Lorraine Shaw … she 's UK champion … the first from the city 's club ever to win a senior outdoor title … this weekend Lorraine takes on the best in the world as she competes in the AAA championships in Birmingham … the amazing thing is that up until this year she was a discus thrower … |
| 2 | However , by delegating authority to subordinates , the superior takes on the extra tasks of calling the subordinates to account for their decisions and performance , and also of coordinating the efforts of different subordinates . |
| 3 | Today Oxfordshire 's Steve Redgrave carries on the British rowing tradition . |
| 4 | Back to form Sandy Cottage takes on the classy Lovely Charlott in the 6th Year Marathon . |
| 5 | In doing so , he shows how the socially and historically constructed opposition between blackness and whiteness takes on the absolute , unquestionable authority of a natural fact . |
| 6 | Operations support superintendent Barry Edwards takes on the added responsibility for those functions which were previously carried out by production branch . |
| 7 | Ideally , the community physiotherapist takes on the wider responsibility of not only teaching the carers , but also assessing and treating the patient 's particular problems through a progressive rehabilitation programme . |
| 8 | Whatever decision the government takes on the East-west route , the amount of traffic on the roads will continue to grow — and despite the problems of freight , the vast majority of vehicles on the roads — over 80% — are private cars . |
| 9 | If we let indicate that part of the surplus-value which serves for the personal consumption of the capitalists , and that which is turned into capital , thus , it we make and correspondingly , if we further let indicate that part of the surplus-value which is accumulated as a part of the constant capital , and that part of the surplus-value which is to be accumulated as a part of the variable capital , and thus posit and correspondingly thus the general formula for the product of both departments takes on the following form : |
| 10 | A charming children 's story in which a small helicopter takes on the biggest financial brains in Europe and the USA , and loses badly . |
| 11 | A similar tiny gesture takes on the same value when Alain rubs one foot up and down the other leg when the girls tickle him . |
| 12 | Chris Lander , the Daily Mirror 's cricket writer and the only man to have marched every step of the way with Beefy on his walks , is amazed at how Ian carries on the torturous pace . |
| 13 | The plotting area used by the Graftec MP3000 can be selected by setting DIP switches on the rear panel . |
| 14 | Half-way through the movie Ms Dash switches on the mental light bulb and asks her suitor how he can afford to buy her diamond rings on a mailboy 's salary . |
| 15 | The pilot light burns continuously on most boilers , and lights the main burners when the programmer switches on the main gas supply . |
| 16 | So when the team plays at home , his chum in Derby switches on the local sports show ready for Mike 's call . |