Example sentences of "on the [adj] [noun prp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Switzerland stood down from taking on the rotating EFTA presidency in the first six months of 1993 , taking up instead the vice-presidency ( in charge of negotiations with third countries , including eastern Europe ) ; the presidency passed instead to Sweden . |
| 2 | Finnish Foreign Minister Pertti Salolainen , leading the EFTA side since Finland had taken on the rotating EFTA chairmanship on July 1 , confirmed on July 30 that the talks would restart in September . |
| 3 | The new aqueduct was necessary to allow ships to pass on the new Manchester Ship Canal . |
| 4 | The last time Gloucester went to Tyneside to play in the cup they took on the old Gosforth team … the score that day … 26-15 to the Cherry and whites … that was almost three years ago … |
| 5 | So the Foreign Office turned a bland eye — nobody was exactly complaining out loud — and we took on the whole Sims organisation as a going concern . |
| 6 | But he left to take on the run-down Staffordshire country house called Alton Towers and made it into a top leisure and theme park . |