Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] [noun] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , now that , I mean I 'm in the second year of being a student , and I took on the position of women 's officer for the we , for the west of Scotland area |
| 2 | Lying in bed at night , she would remind herself that in only a few months ' time she would be his , and would have assumed his name and taken on the position of head of his household . |
| 3 | She talked as if she had taken on the mantle of Philip Marlowe , a female arch sleuth for whom the teeming underworld held no secrets . |
| 4 | I see him as a sort of spiritual descendant of Norman Mailer , just as Mailer took on the mantle of Lawrence — in fact I wrote an essay on that very subject in my last term at school . |
| 5 | The author of this missive was Patricia Hewitt , who seemed determined to take on the mantle of Sara Barker , a notorious fixer and manipulator from the Labour Party of the fifties . |
| 6 | How then , did these early , isolated molecules , take on the trappings of life ? |
| 7 | The people demonstrated their spirit when the whole country rose up , carried on the tide of revolution in Eastern Europe , and literally fought tooth and nail against their oppressors . |
| 8 | Liz , from Northern Ireland , was visiting the Wirral to pass on the art of storytelling to librarians , who had travelled from all over the country Picture : FRAZER BIRD |
| 9 | She had tried , but the rehearsals had gradually taken on the menace of trials of endurance . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | takes over , Blackburn push it wide , at last has found some space but comes across to try and close him down , support just behind from , it 's a woeful cross from and it 's easily cleared by Shrewsbury Town right up to the centre circle , where it 's taken on the chest of Nicky . |
| 12 | How would you like to lead out the Merseyside Select XI at Goodison Park a week tomorrow when they take on the pride of Manchester in Graeme Sharp 's testimonial game ? |
| 13 | The occasion will be a star-studded affair , a day when red joins with blue to take on the pride of Manchester . |
| 14 | The following survey was taken on the streets of Bradford . |
| 15 | Ideal notes take on the character of architecture — that is , they comprise a well-defined structure ; they are capable of supporting and containing the burden to be later placed on them ; and they are designed to last . |
| 16 | They were regarded as betrothed , but while Judith regularly took on the air of proprietorship , Andrew never seemed to be much interested . |
| 17 | Alison 's classes did n't take on the air of duty which can mar anything from going to a party to visiting relations . |
| 18 | He therefore took on the chairmanship of Tate $ Lyle on a part-time basis . |
| 19 | Trainer Henry Cecil , however , was satisfied enough to let All At Sea take on the likes of Arazi and Ireland 's Brief Truce . |
| 20 | In 1814 , Samuel Webb leased the mill to Stephen and Edward Blackwell , who carried on the tradition of cloth making . |
| 21 | Though most of his trials are in the southern states , Mr Stafford Smith recently took on the case of Kenneth Richey , the young Scot who faces execution in Ohio . |
| 22 | From then on the course of relations was again downhill ; there was an inherent ideological conflict between the two governments , and the common border ( with Japanese troops in both Manchuria and Korea ) was a constant source of tension . |
| 23 | Kerekou remained President and Head of the Armed Forces , but the new government was headed by Prime Minister Nicéphore Soglo , who also took on the portfolio of Minister of Defence formerly held by Kerekou . |
| 24 | Other Cabinet members included : Nepali Congress members Marshal Zullum Sakya , Mahendra Narayan Nidhi , and Yog Prasad Upadhyay , who became Home Minister ; United Left Front members Sahana Pradhan ( the Nepali Communist Party leader , who took on the portfolio of Industry and Commerce ) , Jhal Nath Khanal , and Nilambar Acharya ; two prominent non-party opposition figures , Devendra Raj Pandey ( an economist and leader of the Human Rights Organization of Nepal , who became Finance Minister ) , and Mathura Shrestha ( a professor of medicine , who was appointed Minister of Health ) ; and two members nominated by King Birendra , one of whom was Rai Majhi , who became Minister of Education , despite protests by students and teaching staff . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The local government system of the time had been given some shape by the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835 , but it was not until the end of the century that it acquired a structure that would enable it to take on the range of functions it has today . |
| 28 | But I took on the idea of transcendence only at a personal level . |
| 29 | Gimli 's ‘ Song of Durin' at I 329–30 is dwarvishly plain and active , but still carries on the sense of decay in Middle-earth opposed to ultimate hope ; Legolas 's ‘ Song of Nimrodel ’ a little later makes similar oppositions but ends on an opposite note , of faltering and ultimate defeat on the ‘ Hither Shore ’ . |
| 30 | Although it welcomed the extension of home ownership , it also recognized the problems of families who could not or would not take on the responsibility of home purchase ( Department of the Environment 1977b ) . |