Example sentences of "on the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Thompson , the only new appointment , took on the combined portfolio of Community Development and Culture , hitherto the responsibilities of different ministries . |
| 2 | Not content with beating seven bells out of the test team at Lords The Aussies took on the Combined Universities in a three day game today and almost strangled it at birth . |
| 3 | In the big retail market which opens later on the combined scents of ripe peaches and the fresh basil and thyme plants lying in heaps on the ground gave us our first sniff of Provence . |
| 4 | In office he would prove a ruthless party politician , carrying on the Thatcherite strategy of using the powers of the British state to batter opposition and maintain Tory dominance . |
| 5 | The disease causes its victims to waste away and take on the sharp outlines of a statue with the shiny , sickly pallid hue of marble as the disease destroys them . |
| 6 | The officers , aged 19 and 20 , put on the fancy dress for a last night party at a camp for the disabled . |
| 7 | Further minor straws in the wind were Archbishop Makarios ’ request for British help in Cyprus in December 1963 , which drew in most of the Strategic Reserve 's 3rd Division before a hand-over to the United Nations could be negotiated ; and the quelling of the military mutinies in newly independent Tanzania , Kenya and Uganda in January 1964 , at their governments ’ request , by Commandos brought on the aircraft-carrier Centaur from Aden and by units of the Strategic Reserve in Kenya . |
| 8 | Very few general hospital units , however , have recognized how important this service was to individual patients and now it usually falls to a beleaguered social worker to take on the complex task of sorting out welfare benefits ; social workers are not , however , experts in this field and it is a time-consuming task that few of them relish . |
| 9 | Whatever action is taken on the final report of the Buea project ( and I have fears that the heavy reliance on expatriate experts in the project and in drawing up the report may not contribute to its being widely read and followed in Cameroon ) there can be no question that the project marks an important landmark in curriculum planning in Africa . |
| 10 | The decision is a boost for Warwick Rimmer , who brings on the young players at Tranmere , reserve coach Ray Matthias and manager John King who has often been forced to play senior players coming back from injury against youth teams . |
| 11 | It is a sufficient approximation to take on the right-hand side of eqn ( 7.20 ) , so that . |
| 12 | Sylvie could barely remember the woman who had drowned herself , but through his words she took on the grand status of a tormented romantic . |
| 13 | As a result , psychiatrists take on the crucial rule of assessor and expert witness in child care cases in which the mother has a mental or behavioural disorder . |
| 14 | Its magnificent sculptured bronze doors still exist but are now on view inside the church , hung on the inner side of the west portal . |
| 15 | Comedian Mel Smith took on the daunting role of Inspector Morose — a parody of John Thaw 's more famous Inspector Morse — in an advertising campaign launched today . |
| 16 | The society has launched a search for an actor willing to take on the key role of Young Walsingham in their latest production . |
| 17 | One correspondent asserts that whilst there is no shortage of organists , there is a dearth of those who are prepared to take on the regular commitment of parish church music . |
| 18 | In 1967 he was appointed deputy chairman of the nationalised British Steel Corporation and in 1971 took on the additional responsibility of chief executive . |
| 19 | Class 5 leader Gen. Suchinda Kraprayoon retained his post as Army C.-in-C. and was promoted to take on the additional post of Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces , in place of Gen. Sunthorn Kongsompong . |
| 20 | Now The Trust Deed and rules were asked for prior to their consent and the company made it clear that they would not be available until after the new scheme commenced on the first October nineteen ninety and indeed it was some eight days later on the ninth October at er Trustee meeting that the company presented the Trust Deed and rules and it was resolved that the Committee of Management would er transfer all the close scheme members er into the new nineteen ninety scheme and er the same Trustees appointed themselves er Trustees of the nineteen ninety scheme and one hour later were the presentation of a draft deed amending the British Steel Pension Scheme and a draft interim Trust Deed establishing the British Steel Pension Scheme in nineteen ninety and a draft Trust Deed and rules of the British Steel Pension Scheme of nineteen ninety were tabled for noting ; and those very Trustees that were on the first meeting agreed to transfer the assets to the new scheme , set as Trustees of the new scheme one hour later , accepted the assets and er without er seeking either legal or actuarial advice and in this case er Watsons were advisors to the company to the old scheme Trustees and to the new scheme Trustees . |
| 21 | They identify with the global capitalist system , reconceptualize their several national interests in terms of the global system , and take on the political project of reconceptualizing the national interests of their co-nationals in terms of the global capitalist system . |
| 22 | Under the name DNV Technica , the new company will take on the current operations of the Technica Group and the risk and reliability services of DNV . |
| 23 | Wheeler , however , did not always pass on the relevant information to his assistant . |
| 24 | Like the rest , the ex-Croydon cars took on the visible signs of war , headlamp masks , white collision fenders and protective netting on the windows . |
| 25 | This Sunday the Oxford Saints take on the Delonghi Knights from Kent in the National League play offs . |
| 26 | As Wilfred Owen moves into the second stanza he takes on the bigger issue of what he is really trying to say . |
| 27 | This remark had important implications in the theory of the technique of psychoanalysis , where transference — the way the analyst comes to take on the emotional elements of a parent figure for the analysand — plays a key part in understanding the therapeutic effects of psychoanalysis . |
| 28 | Phil 's first big break in showbiz was when , as a child actor , he took on the challenging role of Arthur Dodger in Charles Dickens ' classical-rock musical ‘ Camelot ’ where he learned all he knows re : homelessness … |
| 29 | The dungeon had taken on the squalid smell of the cave back in hell . |
| 30 | The active part is played by a public corporation , the National Coal Board , which carries on the vast bulk of the exploitation itself whilst licensing a minute amount of private enterprise by others . |