Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What , you may ask , has brought on this fit of choler on my part ? |
| 2 | Since the powers of the European Parliament were enhanced by the Single European Act in July 1987 , lobbying of MEPs and the European Parliament 's committees has taken on new significance . |
| 3 | Empowerment , which has its roots in the US , has taken on new significance recently as American corporations try to find a way to compete more effectively with the Japanese . |
| 4 | Martin Hardwidge , the General Secretary , left in April and Stuart Waddington has taken on that role . |
| 5 | Visa records do not yet appear to have long-term reusable value , whereas 20th Century-Fox 's Movietone film has taken on such value . |
| 6 | With the development of New Technology , in-house training by Industry has been better facilitated and has taken on increased importance . |
| 7 | The village Neighbourhood Watch scheme is now fully operational , thanks to Clifford Watts who has taken on overall responsibility . |
| 8 | The site of the garden has taken on special significance since A Morbid Taste for Bones , by Ellis Peters , was published in 1977 . |
| 9 | Tail whisking is one of the movements which has taken on expressive value , becoming emancipated from its original function of removing flies : horses whisk their tails at anything they want to remove from their vicinity , such as other horses , inept grooms or riders , or even irritating conditions such as being confined or tied up . |
| 10 | Prompt recovery from the effects of jetlag has taken on added importance given the rescheduling of events . |
| 11 | It has always been a busy committee but especially so in the last year or two , not least because it has taken on more responsibility . |
| 12 | In many ways I wish we 'd taken on that girl now who we saw right at the very beginning with |
| 13 | The alarm in Leeming 's face was obvious ; the confusion that followed brought on another bout of coughing . |
| 14 | But Dawn , you should have carried on that course man . |
| 15 | No one seems to have asked whether the Staff College could have taken on this job , but then again such anti-intellectualism is apparent even in the Bramshill Scholars ' Association . |
| 16 | Better chance of fish at Barry Docks where flounder and pouting taken on light tackle . |
| 17 | You see , Miss Williams — or should I make that Fran , so that I can get used to calling you that ? — I could n't very well tell the police what had gone on last night , so I improvised . |
| 18 | With the advent of the Youth Training Scheme ( started in 1983 ) one or two of the dairy farmers had taken on 16 year olds for the one year of the Scheme to lessen their own work load . |
| 19 | They had taken on extra teaching staff . |
| 20 | The final straw , as it were , came when we were back home : none of the photographs we had taken on that day came out . |
| 21 | The additional possibility that , having acquired Libyan nationality , they could take partnership with their employers , would have frustrated the intention of at least one employer who had taken on foreign labour to protect his enterprise from socialism . |
| 22 | Consensys had taken on Interactive System Corp and SunSoft Inc refugee Doug Miller as vice president of European sales . |
| 23 | She said , " Philip , I know that if you had taken on this job on a business basis you would have had to charge hundreds . |
| 24 | One reason why the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem was so important for Wittgenstein was because he could not dissolve it without revising the view he had taken on this point when he wrote the Tractatus . |
| 25 | In recent years an increasing proportion of married women even with pre-school children have taken on part-time work . |
| 26 | Individual firms have taken on more security staff , but as yet there is little co-operation among companies on improving security outside their buildings , which is where bombs are most likely to be . |
| 27 | Rates in this market have taken on particular importance in the recent past for three main reasons . |
| 28 | That 's why I have taken on this job ( and for my sins ! ) . |
| 29 | One aspect of the changing nature of local government since the early 1970s seems to be that various local government agencies have taken on this role in one way or another , to the extent that there seems to have been a marked change in relations between those agencies and business interests at local level . |