Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the next half hour the rehearsals took on a sudden lift and everyone began to dare to try things out without feeling foolish . |
| 2 | No clear principles determine the allocation of disputes to these bodies although the greater the element of discretion and the more important the policy considerations , the less likely it is for the courts to take on the new area of responsibility . |
| 3 | The Maggot , Ellen insisted , was an untoilet-trained redneck jerk whose only expertise was as a player of the most brutal and mindless sport to be devised since the lions took on the Christians . |
| 4 | The snag was , everything had seemed perfectly fine and reasonable written down in black and white — but the book had omitted to mention that on snow the skis took on a life all of their own . |
| 5 | Well it 's just the thing to keep the operators going on the night shift . |
| 6 | What arrogance that is , that they allowed the schools to take on the full role when over fifty percent of em were already willing and anxious to do so . |
| 7 | The shops took on a new lease of life , the street-sellers , with their lemonade and nougat , ostrich feathers , mummy-beads and scarabs , carnations and roses , and the street-artists , with their boa-constrictors and baboons , took new heart , and the city in general resumed its normal manic rhythm . |
| 8 | Wiz sounds as elusive and fragile as ever — lost somewhere in his own private world — while musically the songs take on a rougher-edged , gritty power . |
| 9 | The sun has warmed the walls of the garden , the cherries hang on the tree . |
| 10 | And how are the weights carried on the weight cloth ? |
| 11 | If the analyst normalises to the conventional written form , the words take on a formality and specificity which necessarily misrepresent the spoken form . |
| 12 | The barriers take on a variety of forms including cartel agreements or arrangements , national market organisations ( such as co-operatives or trade associations ) which discriminate against other EC nationals , and abusive monopolisation of markets . |
| 13 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |
| 14 | In March or April the flocks take on an even whiter appearance as the males moult into ‘ whiter than white ’ plumage with only a black mantle . |
| 15 | Strangely , as they soar ever upwards , the balloons take on a mushroom-shape as if there 's been a nuclear explosion beneath . |
| 16 | The therapists take on the role of director , facilitator , organizer , reinforcer , and teacher . |
| 17 | The corridors took on an eerie silence . |
| 18 | Videos of the cattle taken on the farm means that buyers for the big meat companies can shop around from their offices . |
| 19 | If there were space travellers on this planet , and it seemed that there were , their forward flight through the wastes took on a more logical purpose than the pursuance of a prophecy from a discod sleeve . |
| 20 | He said nothing to his wife , but at the next new moon got into his boat and let the wind carry him eastwards until he reached the windswept isle of Bujan , where the grass grows green and the grapes hang on the wild vines . |
| 21 | Lake Gatun , into which the ships pass on a due southerly track after leaving the Caribbean and easing through the first set of locks , is an immense inland lake — though an artificial one created by the damming of the Chagres River . |
| 22 | The debates take on an almost sacramental nature as speakers resort to the most basic metaphors of reproduction and renewal in a search for the rites of an inner city spring ( Goldberg , 1990 ) . |
| 23 | The group did little other than a few acts of minor sabotage , as they did n't have the arms to take on the Nazi army . |
| 24 | The girls put on a classy act . |
| 25 | Bowled over … the girls taking on the boys at their own game . |
| 26 | The clerk of each licensing board shall keep a register of applications for licences and shall , at the end of each day 's meeting of the board enter in the register the decisions taken on the applications . |
| 27 | Tomorrow the Parks take on the Provincials at Carrick while at Pickie in Bangor the Private Greens meet the BLI . |
| 28 | So the women take on the role of his good friends . |
| 29 | We were in London for rehearsals at the Globe , and the actors put on the new play for the first time on the 29th of June , 1613 . |
| 30 | Initially the edges of the fins take on a greyish or opaque look , which then progress to a level where the fin tissues , often including the bony fin rays , break up and fall away . |