Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In such fields a double need arises : to harmonise licensing requirements for companies intending to carry on the activities in question , and to establish essential standards for the prudential supervision of companies providing financial services .
2 How then , did these early , isolated molecules , take on the trappings of life ?
3 This means that we can pass on the benefits to policy holders such as yourself by either reducing the policy charges or indeed er increasing the bonuses wherever possible .
4 This is the heart of the notion of the inner city ; at the very moment that policy draws the boundaries of the inner city a place takes on the qualities of coherence that it does not possess , embodies all the contradictions that are part of the original concept .
5 If I had the courage to grow out my hair and take on the streets without frill or face paint , bangles or heels and all such accessories of fear and vanity , then I would be seen far less and see much more .
6 The following survey was taken on the streets of Bradford .
7 You might get through a few months , gross good luck see you to a year , but from then on the odds against survival lengthened considerably .
8 Hanging on the hours like heliotropes
9 Trainer Henry Cecil , however , was satisfied enough to let All At Sea take on the likes of Arazi and Ireland 's Brief Truce .
10 NCUBE TAKES ON THE TERAFLOPPERS WITH ORACLE-RUNNING 65,384-PROCESSOR NCUBE 3 FOR 1994
11 Does he not realise that many Members on both sides of the House and many staff who work here have to eat morning , noon and night in those cafeterias , and that there is a desperate need to take on the services of people who are qualified and at the forefront of their field in this subject ?
12 To help publicise the launch of the airline , Branson had taken on the services of Tony Brainsby , a man whose hyperventilated style of press-arousal on behalf of such clients as Paul McCartney had made him a small legend in the pop world .
13 Miss Reid was a fully qualified nurse , and when , some months later , the post of superintendent-nurse at St. Peter 's Hospital became vacant , the new Mrs. Chaplin took on the duties in addition to those of matron .
14 Each year a celebrity is chosen to switch on the Illuminations in Talbot Square , followed for many years by a tour of the Lights by tram .
15 Beautiful women , dressed in anything from the flamboyantly obvious to the understatedly elegant , weaved in and out of the crowds , some of them hanging on the arms of men old enough to be their grandfathers .
16 From now on the companies on UI 's executive committee , currently home to the likes of Sun Microsystems Inc , NCR Corp , Unisys Corp and ICL plc and some of the Japanese firms , will select the reference technologies for items such as networking , object orientation and multimedia .
17 Armed with their newest inventions ( a super-duper jeep and hi-tech helicopter ) they vow to take on the forces of evil and blast their way to freedom — so get blasting !
18 Normal human curiosity flexed under the strain , but would not take on the forces of discipline in open combat .
19 Even if an effective way could be found to pass on the costs of rubbish disposal to the average household , an awkward fact would remain .
20 Tomorrow the Parks take on the Provincials at Carrick while at Pickie in Bangor the Private Greens meet the BLI .
21 It is possible to intensify poetry 's power over time if we take on the implications of Rosenblatt 's transactional theory , which is well described in Benton et al .
22 As the House knows , we have long believed that the Community should be open to European countries who want to join and can take on the responsibilities of membership .
23 We believe that the Community should welcome all European countries that want to join and can take on the responsibilities of membership .
24 In this sense professionals have already attempted to break down the norms of public discourse to bring on the clients of welfare who have suffered in silence .
25 Join Axel and Blaze for more gob-smacking action as they again take on the hordes of Mr Big .
26 On the walls of the tombs in the cliffs above Beni Hassan are painted the meals expected in the after life , the menus marked with the number of portions required , as on cards hung on the doorknobs of hotel bedrooms to order breakfast .
27 Decisions have to be taken on the types of film technique to be used ; locations ; casting ; music ; sets ; and any special requirements .
28 The children might take on the roles of factory workers who stand to lose their jobs if the factory cleans up its act .
29 It dissolved into six human forms , each taking on the attributes of head and arms and limbs .
30 Richards saw that Woolley was trying to do more than train them , and lead them , and pass on the lessons of experience : he was also struggling to turn each of them into the kind of person that he himself had become .
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