Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this strange institution we did not even know all the people who worked in the same room as ourselves , as the action went on twenty-four hours a day , and we were on duty on varying shifts . |
| 2 | He admits that in the Eighties the card took on some people who were not quite of the calibre of its existing client portfolio . |
| 3 | Woodhill Echo went on last year to win a £1,000 open at Brough Park before finishing third in the Scottish Derby . |
| 4 | The front doors were almost bare of paint and shadows cast by the gas flame took on weird shapes . |
| 5 | Even when no political or social statement was intended , the most abstruse philosophical inquiry , the most obscure historical research , the narrowest psychological study took on political meaning . |
| 6 | Suddenly the one-off singles deal took on lengthier proportions and a second single was chosen from the pack . |
| 7 | Its counterpart on Ermine Street was a two-phase structure , beginning life as a building measuring 25.9 by 13.1 m ( 84½ by 43 ft ) , with a shingled roof carried on two rows of massive posts 5.8 m ( 19ft ) apart . |
| 8 | In the far South-west , Cornish mining took on female labour to a degree unusual in the southern part of the country . |
| 9 | Not for him Classical decoration hung on utilitarian steel or concrete frames . |
| 10 | A big , unframed abstract hung on one wall , its colours echoing the cream and tan of the rest of the room . |
| 11 | The usage of ‘ race ’ during the September-October 1985 period took on new meanings , which had little if anything to do with the impact of racism as such , since the emphasis was on the cultural characteristics of the minority communities themselves . |
| 12 | The question of access to the US public utility market in areas such as transport took on new interest with Mr Clinton 's plan to increase investment in areas such as high-speed railways and other transit systems as part of his recovery plan . |
| 13 | Increasingly the Scots were coming to feel that they had benefited little from the establishment of the new regime in 1689 , and as a result Jacobitism north of the border took on nationalistic overtones . |
| 14 | In the first decades of the twentieth century sex education took on great importance within public debate . |
| 15 | I was advised by the Greenbelt Local Plan Programme Officer , on fifth March , that counsel for North Yorkshire County Council , with the apparent concurrence of counsel for Ryedale District Council , had delivered an oral submission to the inspector , that at the hearing of the case which was to have taken place on the eleventh of March , certain evidence contained in my proof of evidence issued on twelfth February should be treated as inadmissible . |
| 16 | The Petersburg Soviet took on quasi-governmental functions , including the setting up of an armed militia . |
| 17 | Royal favour took on substantial material form in wardships , pensions , annuities , leases of Crown land , trading licences , and monopolies . |
| 18 | As I was thinking this , Pike started to laugh and the voice took on more colour . |
| 19 | Food took on better flavour , meals became enjoyable instead of a chore , ’ she says , ‘ If I break the diet , I know I have n't failed , but have a chance to learn from the experience . |
| 20 | The desire to teach the experts a lesson took on manic proportions . |
| 21 | It was established by a motion carried on 12 December 1948 . |
| 22 | The principle took on particular importance in the light of the development of totalitarian communism , and the Roman church saw the threat to be endemic in the growth of the modern state apparatus , including its welfare institutions . |
| 23 | As she grew older the problem took on mammoth proportions . |
| 24 | It is perhaps not totally coincidental that there are three million unemployed and three million companies and er You could do the arithmetic about what would happen if every company took on one person . |
| 25 | A naked bulb of high wattage hung on half-exposed wires from the centre of the sloping ceiling . |
| 26 | His face took on severe lines , anger glowed in his eyes . |
| 27 | His father left home when he was three , and his mother took on additional jobs , enabling the children to attend the village school . |
| 28 | At about the same time the aliens department of the Home Office took on extra staff and moved to Cleveland House on Thorney Street . |