Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] [noun] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a late developer , it began to take on the size and conformation of an excellent Clydesdale stallion . |
| 2 | But they dare n't take on the decisions and responsibility that would allow them to make their own alternatives , and to drop right out . |
| 3 | The turning-point in his fortunes came in October 1861 , when he was asked to take on the printing and publishing of the Union newspaper , which was trying to bring Tractarian Anglicans into touch with Roman Catholics . |
| 4 | It is thus that ‘ national liberation ’ , or the breakaway movements , so often take on the colour and rhetoric of the group they see as dominating them . |
| 5 | Same list of icecream flavours hung on the wall and bowl of aniseed lollipops on the counter , same gilt baskets of croissants and racks like umbrella stands packed with tall loaves . |
| 6 | The people bounding around the room appeared to be transforming , taking on the shape and form of the animal masks they were wearing . |
| 7 | The man felt his melancholy enlarge as if — oddly — to take on the shape and texture of what was before him . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Massage the skin and pass on the pressure and bingo ! |
| 10 | Or perhaps it is that if we try to take on the identity and authority of the Weaving Mother the consequences will be severe ; our own personal weavings are only part of a much greater pattern , which we can not control or take credit for . |
| 11 | Often now when I set off in a fairly posh car and switch on the radio and heater , I think back to those wartime battles to get my little fishing box onto the crowded trams and my long walks from Brigg railway station to catch bream at Cadney Bridge . |
| 12 | With the last of her dresses hanging in the wardrobe , undies neatly folded in the drawer , Lindsey switched on the radio and bedside lamp . |
| 13 | The refusal to be responsible and motivated , to get a job , to take on the brutalization and disenchantment entailed in ‘ gainful ’ employment . |
| 14 | It was from these regions that Catalan industry was to draw its cheap labour , while the wild valleys of the Pyrenees were an enclosed world with a tradition of brigandage and family feuds ; here Carlism was to take on the violence and cruelty of the local society . |
| 15 | One , however , was the decision to establish a European Movement which would have a National Council in each country , to carry on the debate and pressure governments . |
| 16 | According to classical mechanics , in theory you could write down the position and momentum of every single particle in the universe ; you could therefore work out how everything is going backwards and forwards in time , obviously by highly complicated equations , but in theory , everything 's predicted so everything 's totally determined from beginning to end ; but quantum mechanics says that you can never record the momentum and position of everything identically because of the Uncertainty Principle . |
| 17 | He wanted to rage and swear , to shout down the telephone and fire off angry memoranda . |
| 18 | Rosie had scribbled down the name and telephone number of a caller who had offered a story . |
| 19 | Write down the year and month in which the products with the following date stamps were produced : |
| 20 | About a year later and some six months before Heath closed down the government and parliament of Northern Ireland , army technicians began systematic telephone tapping or landline intercept as it was euphemistically termed . |
| 21 | Rain said : ‘ My conscience dictates that I drive down the Cap and interview Peter Leary . |
| 22 | Everything here is dynamic and very competitive ; hotels , restaurants , theatres , which beach you go to , and that drives down the prices and car prices unfortunately . |
| 23 | Alice set down the case and violin and wiped her face on her sleeve , wiped it on the rough wool sleeve of her winter coat . |
| 24 | Now , however , you simply have to lay down the law and force relatives or close companions to realise that a major move or upheaval is unavoidable . |
| 25 | Here in North Oxford we have to consider ways to get our streets cleaned better ; how to redevelop the area ( especially the West of the ward ) without spoiling it ; and how to cut down the nuisance and pollution of rush hour traffic . |
| 26 | Presumably they pick up the pinta and down the sherry and beer as well , not to mention making it look as if the reindeers have had a go at the carrots . |
| 27 | Paste colour provides a rich intense shade without thinning down the fondant and marzipan as with liquids . |
| 28 | Deep down the heat and pressure are so great that even hydrogen is a metallic liquid . ’ |
| 29 | Albert Popple had decided to go down the Lamb and Flag after walking round the block several times . |
| 30 | Schedule 2 to the Act lays down the constitution and procedure of the appeal committee . |