Example sentences of "a [noun] [to-vb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far better to build more advanced Airbuses for a new market than a Euro-fighter to take on a non-existent enemy which is increasingly an economic partner . |
| 2 | Far better to build more advanced Airbuses for a new market than a Euro-fighter to take on a non-existent enemy which is increasingly an economic partner . |
| 3 | ‘ Mr ’ Habsburg may not have a throne to sit on , he does have a leg to stand on . |
| 4 | I feel around me and find a branch to sit on . |
| 5 | Elijah heard a divine message sending him back to troubled Israel , with intuition as to definite things to do , one of which was to find a successor to carry on the prophetic ministry . |
| 6 | An agent looking at a student actor makes a reasonable commercial judgement ; he considers whether a decision to take on an actor will be financially justified . |
| 7 | * Decide which parts of a text to focus on particularly ( e.g. beginning , ending , title , etc. ) ( see p. 32 ) . |
| 8 | It was when Izzie began to make him up a mattress to sleep on that he said , ‘ Well , just tonight . |
| 9 | If the subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group are released into the private sector , with all the rhetoric about freedom and competition , one of the rights that will be established is the right of a buyer to sell on to a new owner Whatever safeguards the Minister may tell us , to salve his conscience , are built into the legislation , the truth is that they will disappear immediately further sales take place . |
| 10 | Politics , sexuality or whatever , must be a framework to build on , not a rigid cage which restricts change . |
| 11 | As well as recording , developing and applying new processing facilities , such as graphics or word processing , within the framework of the personnel information system , the Group Personnel Information Services Department has a responsibility to advise on and co-ordinate developments to the Payroll/Personnel database itself . |
| 12 | Will you stay here and Mummy 'll get you a sweater to put on . |
| 13 | Well funny enough she 's , she 's got a light to put on now . |
| 14 | The pass is not a permit to park on or near the esplanade and is valid ONLY ON THE DATE SHOWN . |
| 15 | I am not writing to discuss the subject of inflation although give a soap-box to stand on I could go on for ever . |
| 16 | The roads were becoming a pleasure to travel on after centuries of neglect . |
| 17 | And yet he had come to himself unaided , clambered to his feet without even the support of a fence to lean on , and made his way some two hundred yards towards the single light of the curator 's open door . |
| 18 | No longer did a sixth former of limited means need to win a scholarship to go on to higher education : admission secured a grant from the Local Authority . |
| 19 | ‘ The trouble is they 'll send for him when he is eighteen , and we were hoping he 'd win a scholarship to go on to University . |
| 20 | Alan Strachan is a rock to lean on . |
| 21 | It then accepted a new structure in which a minimum standard of English and arithmetic qualified a child to go on to an intelligence test to measure its ‘ capacity ’ . |
| 22 | And for many people , it 's a dream to move on and change your life to something bigger and better . |
| 23 | In Durham the engine came to a halt to take on more coal and water . |
| 24 | Private individuals looking for a stockbroker to advise on or manage their investments may not know how to start . |
| 25 | of when you 've got to be a rotter to get on but I 'm afraid that 's how it 's gon na be |
| 26 | HOWARD KENDALL last night admitted he faces a battle to hold on to Everton 's £2m-rated defender Martin Keown . |
| 27 | " She 's right , " the maid grinned , " you are just looking for a body to practise on . " |
| 28 | People sometimes find that their housing requirements change and seek after a period to move on to different kinds of residence , particularly into flats of their own . |
| 29 | It boasts the first greens in Portugal constructed to USGA specifications and they are a joy to putt on . |
| 30 | There is a need to go on being touched , to receive affection and recognition in this way all through life . |