Example sentences of "[Wh det] [modal v] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.

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1 If this fails to hold the situation then review the case and see if there have been any changes or new information come to light that would enable you to select a more similar remedy which could carry on the work of the first remedy .
2 Both there and at Keetmanshoep the Germans built headquarters stations which could take on a new strategic role in time of war .
3 The supreme body was the Council of Heads of State , which would take on the responsibility of legal succession from the dissolution of the Soviet Union .
4 It is a question which will take on a more hard-nosed approach once the euphoria of post-World Cup celebrations die down and the reality of the 1992 season , with the test challenges of Scotland and the All Blacks plus the Wallaby tour of Ireland and Wales and possibly South Africa , arrives .
5 ‘ Your reflections , ’ Hope cried out to the apparently enraptured merchant , ‘ set off my own — as do all the most acute thoughts , scattering from the hand like seeds , each of which can take on a life of its own , and I confess that I became absorbed in those great matters of morality and commerce raised by your eloquent conversation . ’
6 Thirdly , the hackers are preoccupied , they have a vocation , a mission , a hobby which can take on the proportions of a religious quest .
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