Example sentences of "[verb] on the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is only one Arsenal today , and I can not conceive another simply because no other club have players fitted to carry on the same ideas . ’ |
| 2 | They bring on the young ponies and in return he teaches them . |
| 3 | This is because the genes controlling these particular colour-forms are both carried on the X chromosomes , the red gene on one and the non-red gene on the other . |
| 4 | Loose canvas seat covers were also carried on the upper decks . |
| 5 | These are replacements but are still carried on the original pendentives . |
| 6 | A variety of cargoes , as diverse as Britain 's industries , has been carried on the inland waterways . |
| 7 | Put on the glad rags and go out and party , after that ? |
| 8 | Measured photographs of these dolls , reminding of the documentation of immigrants arriving at Staten Island , hang on the surrounding walls . |
| 9 | He said nothing to his wife , but at the next new moon got into his boat and let the wind carry him eastwards until he reached the windswept isle of Bujan , where the grass grows green and the grapes hang on the wild vines . |
| 10 | Once the school librarian or teacher has mastered the simple stages of switching on the different parts of the microcomputer , e.g. to set up the BBC microcomputer , the user 1 ) Plugs in the computer , the disk drive , the monitor and the printer 2 ) Switches on the microcomputer , the disk drive , the monitor and the printer 3 ) Puts a disk into the disk drive 4 ) Types in a command on the microcomputer s/he will be able to use programs for different applications such as database creation or word processing and the applications are covered later in this book . |
| 11 | We 're going to put on the Olympic Games in ‘ 96 , we 're going to make everybody including Athens proud . |
| 12 | er I do n't know how to answer that question , all I can say is we 're going to put on the Olympic Games in ‘ 96 and we 're going to make everybody , including Athens I hope , proud . |
| 13 | Pillars , walls , ceiling , all have been painted , and there are even paintings hung on the upper walls of the nave above the arches , which are a mixture of round and pointed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When the character of Harlequin , the Comic Lover , had become familiar in England he was quickly promoted to lead the pantomimes ; nowhere in ballet does he rise to more commanding heights than as Captain Belaye in Cranko , s Pineapple Poll , where he takes on the superior airs and manners of the British Navy and becomes the apple of every girl 's eye . |
| 16 | If new proteins are to be made , the DNA must be activated in some way , so as to switch on the relevant genes . |
| 17 | The disease causes its victims to waste away and take on the sharp outlines of a statue with the shiny , sickly pallid hue of marble as the disease destroys them . |
| 18 | Under the name DNV Technica , the new company will take on the current operations of the Technica Group and the risk and reliability services of DNV . |
| 19 | Where this occurs in hard corals without the formulation of dividing walls the colony can , eventually , take on the convoluted patterns characterised by brain coral colonies . |
| 20 | Either way , it was asserted , the cost would approach £350 million and the whole project could take on the same proportions as providing London with its third airport . |
| 21 | Naked , she switched on the powerful shower-jets , and raised her voice to be heard above them . |
| 22 | Little Pete and Ellie who used to hang on the very words of Uncle John . |
| 23 | In my first six weeks here I had lots of battles — taking on the bigger ones . |
| 24 | An all-star field will take part in tonight 's Calor Gas Grand Prix in Ballymena town centre with riders from England , Scotland , Wales and the south taking on the local stars . |
| 25 | Trees are preparing for winter and their leaves are taking on the beautiful colours of autumn . |
| 26 | ‘ I enjoy taking on the big battalions , ’ he says . |
| 27 | I walked silently , testing every step I took on the rough paths , just as I had used to walk with my mother in the woods near Štanjel . |
| 28 | Like the rest , the ex-Croydon cars took on the visible signs of war , headlamp masks , white collision fenders and protective netting on the windows . |
| 29 | Not content with beating seven bells out of the test team at Lords The Aussies took on the Combined Universities in a three day game today and almost strangled it at birth . |
| 30 | Torres also took on the Foreign Affairs portfolio , Vice-Adml. ( retd ) Raúl Sánchez Sotomayor being unexpectedly dropped from the Cabinet . |