Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The team leader does a further assessment before deciding whether a social worker or social work aide should take on the referral . |
| 2 | Banknote paper was then prepared with a colouring agent made from cobalt , silex , salt and potash : if you set light to a bundle of money , the cinder would take on the extraordinary tint that Musgrave saw on the Caen dockside . |
| 3 | The teacher will take on the role of the merman , but asks the children : " How do you want me to look ? |
| 4 | The boy 's body will take on the squarer , more muscular appearance of manhood . |
| 5 | The unconscious may take on the status of an answer to everything : a last piece of the jigsaw , which feminists initiated into Lacanianism can use to solve the issue on another plane , or can reject . |
| 6 | ‘ This first phase of our Skerneside Revival will carry on the very important initiative of the Railside Revival . ’ |
| 7 | In almost the first 12 months the locomotive is back together again in one piece although some parts had been re-engineered and considerably altered so that the whole locomotive would take on the appearance of its British counterparts . |
| 8 | and the boy would next morning would pass on the outside of the gate offering a reward of five pounds to anyone who would in other words five pounds for Oliver Twist I never in for this in my life said the in the white , white coat as he locked the gate and he went to the next morning . |
| 9 | As a result of this activity , a three-dimensional model of a tin mine can take on the appearance of a twisted mass of petrified spaghetti with shafts and tunnels splaying out in all directions . |
| 10 | Perhaps the best man could take on the responsibility of arriving before the guests and checking the microphone . |
| 11 | Simultaneously , the His15 and Arg17 side chains of HPr would separate and the active centre would take on the strained open conformation ( Fig. 2 a ) , ready for the next cycle ; formation of hydrogen bonds to His15 and Arg17 would help to stabilize the open conformation and the protein would be in an overall energy minimum . |
| 12 | The new firm will take on the likes of Prudential Re in America 's mainstream market for brokered property-casualty reinsurance ( the insurance that primary insurers themselves take out ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Our generation must take on the task of thinking about the future , of assuming towards it the responsibility that we assume towards our children . |
| 15 | If this sounds too outrageous then the art department of the local secondary school might take on the design and painting of a mural as a project for older pupils with children from the primary school working as their apprentices . |
| 16 | A shef organization from the towns such as an individual factory would take on the role of cultural and political mentor to some rural group . |
| 17 | From now on Scala will publish books on museums or classic artists , the Sotheby 's imprint will be reserved only for books that have a direct input from Sotheby 's auctioneers , and Zwemmer will take on the rest . |
| 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 | Experiments in pickling different alloys of copper and zinc have shown that only alloys with between 2 and 10 per cent of copper in the zinc will take on the black patina , and the silver and brass inlays are unaffected by the pickling solution . |
| 20 | Three-quarters of providers were confident that " this unit can take on the competition " and two-thirds believed they were in good shape to do so . |
| 21 | Psychiatry would take on the study of consciousness , including altered states of consciousness , without identifying some states as ‘ pathological ’ . |
| 22 | For this reason , wording is sometimes inserted in the hive-up agreement to the effect that Target will carry on the trade as " undisclosed agent " of Newco until the hive-up is completed . |
| 23 | It is no good thinking that secateurs will keep a 30ft ( 9m ) monster down to 10 or ft ( 3 or 4m ) — the plant will take on the challenge , break forth with even greater vigour , and fight you all the way . |
| 24 | Once married , the partner can take on the shadow of a forbidding parent : ‘ Sex is dirty ; sex is bad . ’ |
| 25 | The class can take on the role of any group of people unified by a common concern or problem , so long as we ensure that every child has an active role to play . |