Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Woodhill Echo went on last year to win a £1,000 open at Brough Park before finishing third in the Scottish Derby . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the far South-west , Cornish mining took on female labour to a degree unusual in the southern part of the country . |
| 4 | Not for him Classical decoration hung on utilitarian steel or concrete frames . |
| 5 | A big , unframed abstract hung on one wall , its colours echoing the cream and tan of the rest of the room . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In the first decades of the twentieth century sex education took on great importance within public debate . |
| 8 | Royal favour took on substantial material form in wardships , pensions , annuities , leases of Crown land , trading licences , and monopolies . |
| 9 | As I was thinking this , Pike started to laugh and the voice took on more colour . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |