Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | COLCHESTER player-manager Roy McDonough will watch from the sidelines as his team take on Norwegian tourists Nessegutten at Layer Road this evening in a friendly fixture ( kick-off 7.45 pm ) . |
| 4 | STEVE Dowman has promised there will be no repeat of Saturday 's ‘ inept ’ performance when Wivenhoe Town take on second-placed St. Albans City in the Diadora Premier tonight . |
| 5 | The Kremlin therefore wanted to pursue competition short of armed conflict , and the mid-to-late 1950s saw the Cold War take on new dimensions and a truly global nature as Khruschev adapted to changed circumstances , proving ready , for example , to ally with groups in the emerging ‘ Third World ’ who opposed the capitalist and colonial West . |
| 6 | The Mariners take on Third Division Halifax Town at College Road next Saturday in a first round tie which the Crosby side are quietly confident of winning . |
| 7 | The Mariners take on Third Division Halifax Town at College Road next Saturday in a first round tie which the Crosby side are quietly confident of winning . |
| 8 | Where , for example , children are considered at risk of physical harm it is important that medical authorities pass on relevant information about non-accidental injuries and teachers report cases of obvious neglect , or comprehensive risk registers are compiled . |
| 9 | Debt is cheaper than equity , since investors take on less risk when buying it . |
| 10 | In the context of giant industries such as electricity supply the questions take on considerable significance . |
| 11 | The scene is thus set for large-scale reductivist paraphrases , which in different ontological theories take on different forms , depending upon what kind of entities are regarded as basic . |
| 12 | Ensuring that private practitioners take on preventive activities and promote healthy behaviour by their patients requires a substantial move away from a strictly market led approach . |
| 13 | Bearing all these factors in mind , the demonstration that patients in intensive care show abnormal daily rhythms , and that these abnormalities take on many forms , is not surprising . |
| 14 | FLY-HALVES Michael Lynagh and Naas Botha got an early chance to size each other up before world champions Australia take on would-be kings South Africa later on this month when they meet , plying their trade for Treviso and Rovigo respectively , in the Italian Championship final . |
| 15 | These features take on particular interest when combined with the findings of Squire ( 1964 ) whose study of readers not only found evidence of a considerable need on the part of adolescent readers for association and empathy with the characters in a work of fiction , but also a clear correlation between emotional involvement with a story and the formulation of literary judgment . |
| 16 | Modernism , the tip of whose iceberg is visible by the mid-nineteenth century , but whose social conditions of existence are pervasive only from the end of that century , is an end point of this differentiation , a point at which spheres take on full autonomy . |
| 17 | The situation is analogous to the way in which the genes with their shape-specificity pass on inherited characteristics from one generation to the next . |
| 18 | Although the LEA remains the employer of the staff in the school , the governors take on extensive powers over staffing and responsibilities under employment law . |
| 19 | Tomorrow , the boys from the Beazer Homes League take on second division Bournemouth at Whaddon Road . |
| 20 | For all but the smallest dataset these tasks take on average weeks rather than days ( Doorn 1993 ) . |
| 21 | Holders East Belfast take on Amateur League champions Killyleagh which also has all the makings of a cracking tie . |
| 22 | And yet men do have reason to be concerned if , on these occasions , women find their lonely anger or isolated oppression is understood and shared by other women , so that personal struggles take on political dimensions . |
| 23 | CHAMPIONS Leeds take on Premier League leaders Norwich today with a warning from captain Gary McAllister ringing in their ears : ‘ I hope nobody is thinking we are too good to go down . ’ |