Example sentences of "on the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young may be carried on the snout of the mother if they are in distress ( or stillborn ) , a behaviour that is also sometimes extended to humans in distress . |
| 2 | Lying in bed at night , she would remind herself that in only a few months ' time she would be his , and would have assumed his name and taken on the position of head of his household . |
| 3 | But , now that , I mean I 'm in the second year of being a student , and I took on the position of women 's officer for the we , for the west of Scotland area |
| 4 | God sent the Spirit of Jesus to his followers in order to equip them to carry on the mission of his Son in the world . |
| 5 | The survey also contains information on the action employers take on the expiry of the time limit . |
| 6 | It seemed that everything in the championship really hung on the reliability of each driver 's car . |
| 7 | His face had taken on the expression of imbecile beatitude the religious sometimes adopt . |
| 8 | Walk on round to those cliffs and you come to what seem like utterly derelict sheds hanging on the edge of the precipice , stinking of goat : these are stacked with piles of skins for tanning , which goes on below in Brobdingnagian wooden barrels and enormous concrete troughs . |
| 9 | You start , as I said , with the claw weight hanging on the edge of the knitting . |
| 10 | Then player manager Brian Flynn latched on to a Mark Taylor pass on the edge of the penalty area but his shot rebounded to safety off the inside of the post . |
| 11 | The Loch Ness Project took on the mantle of the LNI and picked up from the Loch Morar expeditions , and we returned to Loch Ness , whose steep-walled uniformity is more favourable to sonar . |
| 12 | The author of this missive was Patricia Hewitt , who seemed determined to take on the mantle of Sara Barker , a notorious fixer and manipulator from the Labour Party of the fifties . |
| 13 | While Oman 's Muscat took on the mantle of regional champions , Queensland provided a masterly performance against Bahrain Warblers . |
| 14 | The respect afforded him in England had partly to do with the manner in which he had taken on the mantle of English culture ; in the absence of any figure with equivalent influence , he was eventually to be invested with an almost shamanistic authority . |
| 15 | She talked as if she had taken on the mantle of Philip Marlowe , a female arch sleuth for whom the teeming underworld held no secrets . |
| 16 | Higher education is notorious for producing disciples , as students take on the mantle of a teacher who has created a great impression . |
| 17 | The dismantling of the welfare infrastructure and the encouragement of the pursuit of profit has at times taken on the mantle of a moral endeavour . |
| 18 | I see him as a sort of spiritual descendant of Norman Mailer , just as Mailer took on the mantle of Lawrence — in fact I wrote an essay on that very subject in my last term at school . |
| 19 | Among the terrestrial channels , Channel 4 has in any case taken on the mantle of the senator for adult-intelligent viewing : in other words , the place where you can watch randily beneath a thinnish veneer of knowledge and a deeper understanding of self . |
| 20 | Children 's paintings hung on the gate of a timber yard , the most restrained moment of a day long protest against the tropical timber trade . |
| 21 | In fact , from then on the rest of the evening seemed to be bathed in a glorious , rosy light . |
| 22 | Taking on the rest of them . |
| 23 | Er , the first thing is I put on the top of my draught that I 'd rather the pupils were n't involved at this stage I 'd rather they were involved in the over view with form tutor . |
| 24 | Er they done the broken metal and then they put on the top of it and then they come along with a watering cart and er splashed water on it and then |
| 25 | Want to sort of put on the top of the wardrobe and then make it drop |
| 26 | The people demonstrated their spirit when the whole country rose up , carried on the tide of revolution in Eastern Europe , and literally fought tooth and nail against their oppressors . |
| 27 | But there have been people so sunk in self-blame they 've taken on the guilt of their firm 's collapse — which really does have to be nonsense . |
| 28 | A second explosion came several hours later on the platform of the South Kensington Underground station . |
| 29 | While long-standing fans either relished it or waited patiently for them to return to straightforward indie pop , more than a few older folk fans switched on the enigma of The Wedding Present . |
| 30 | I WISH to set the record straight on the issue of the works and health committee 's decision to introduce a ‘ Caring Contractor ’ scheme for Darlington . |