Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some theorize that income distribution is mainly a result of government action ( wage policy , taxation , etc. ) while per capita income is mainly a result of transnational forces ( for example , the price that exports bring on the world market ) . |
| 2 | The sun has warmed the walls of the garden , the cherries hang on the tree . |
| 3 | I do remember seeing two — maybe three — cars pass on the Silcaster road , but I did n't notice anything shown up in their headlights . ’ |
| 4 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |
| 5 | Many in the music business sneer at coverage in the regional press but Gedge has always encouraged it , especially in the Middleton paper where articles take on the role of a public letter home . |
| 6 | EVENTS / Conkering heroes take on the world |
| 7 | The therapists take on the role of director , facilitator , organizer , reinforcer , and teacher . |
| 8 | A third group of carers take on the job because they feel that they have to . |
| 9 | Tors take on the appearance of ruined castles or huge animals through the hanging cloud while stunted trees add to the other-worldly landscape . |
| 10 | ( d ) Post-dissolution profits Section 42 of the Partnership Act is concerned with the rights of outgoing partners in certain cases to share profits made after dissolution : ( 1 ) Where any member of a firm has died or otherwise ceased to be a partner , and the surviving or continuing partners carry on the business of the firm with its capital or assets without any final settlement of accounts as between the firm and the outgoing partner or his estate , then , in the absence of any agreement to the contrary , the outgoing partner or his estate is entitled at the option of himself or his representatives to such share of the profits made since the dissolution as the Court may find to be attributable to the use of his share of the partnership assets , or to interest at the rate of five per cent per annum on the amount of his share of the partnership assets . |
| 11 | With a group of other Australians , I first went there in 1973 , to see Graeme Langland 's Kangaroos take on the Lions before a much smaller crowd than honoured Ellery 's boys last year . |
| 12 | Although some doctors carry on the tradition of the medical profession in refusing to accept these ‘ outsiders ’ , more are now realising that osteopaths and chiropractors can relieve pain . |
| 13 | and this afternoon the Gloucester coach was weighing up his team 's next opponents … tomorrow at Kingsholm the cherry and whites take on the South African Barbarians … a team bristling with international talent … they were warming up on the playing fields at Wycliffe School in Stonehouse … |
| 14 | Oxford City Stars take on the city 's University team . |
| 15 | There 's ice action for hockey fans in swindon tomorrow … wildcats against sheffield … on sunday Oxford city stars take on the basingstoke bulldogs |
| 16 | Tomorrow the Parks take on the Provincials at Carrick while at Pickie in Bangor the Private Greens meet the BLI . |
| 17 | The survey also contains information on the action employers take on the expiry of the time limit . |
| 18 | Ideal notes take on the character of architecture — that is , they comprise a well-defined structure ; they are capable of supporting and containing the burden to be later placed on them ; and they are designed to last . |
| 19 | Higher education is notorious for producing disciples , as students take on the mantle of a teacher who has created a great impression . |
| 20 | The Zombies take on the appearance of people the adventurers know ( and preferably care about or at least like ) and reach forward to them as if in greeting . |
| 21 | So the women take on the role of his good friends . |