Example sentences of "on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | YOUR VERY OWN MANAGER There has been a surge recently in the number of smaller fund management companies keen to take on private clients |
| 2 | There are more than 200 stockbroking firms eager to take on private clients , ranging from the independent , old-fashioned type of broker through to some of the larger international firms or subsidiaries of the clearing banks . |
| 3 | ‘ Women builders can work from our workshops and take on private commissions , if they want to set up on their own , ’ she said . |
| 4 | A council spokesman said said the decision to end the system was taken on economic grounds . |
| 5 | Or , it could be behaviour which is seen as eccentric or bizarre , such as not wearing shoes and socks in conventional situations or carrying on prolonged conversations with the plants in one 's garden . |
| 6 | Sorry go on sorry go on . |
| 7 | B B C Radio York oh no hang on sorry I got that wrong . |
| 8 | Yeah carry on sorry , the second one . |
| 9 | Carry on sorry ! |
| 10 | Come on sweety |
| 11 | The nationwide protest against the Poll Tax has taken on historic proportions . |
| 12 | Our more natural inclination was to hide in the dim recesses of the games shed and carry on enthralling discussions about boyfriends and the origins of the universe . |
| 13 | He gradually took on full-time work in the same company , and gained three promotions within a year . |
| 14 | As time goes on , our membership and our finances will decide when we can take on full-time officials . |
| 15 | They were taken on full-time , they left college , and they want to do whatever they want to do . |
| 16 | Although the LEA remains the employer of the staff in the school , the governors take on extensive powers over staffing and responsibilities under employment law . |
| 17 | Or again as Jevons says ‘ Originally a market was a public place in a town where provisions and other objects were exposed for sale ; but the word has been generalized , so as to mean any body of persons who are in intimate business relations and carry on extensive transactions in any commodity . |
| 18 | In addition , Invesco will take on European shares , while Gartmore accepts foreign shares , UK gilts and holdings in offshore funds . |
| 19 | Courses in the first , second and third years are chosen from biological and management sciences , Ecological Science and Agriculture ; in the fourth year study units will be taken on rural land management . |
| 20 | But this mode of autonomy is dependent on this kind of society , for which music takes on specific private , ‘ spiritual ’ , leisure functions . |
| 21 | ‘ … a fiscal and accounting entity with self-balancing set of accounts recording cash and other financial resources together with all related liabilities and residual equities or balances and changes therein which are segregated for the purpose of carrying on specific activities or attaining certain objectives in accordance with special regulations , restrictions or limitations . ’ |
| 22 | Machine-based production began , not only in textiles , but in a range of goods which were particularly sensitive to this type of flexible demand , and only later on concentrated on the heavier industrial goods we now particularly associate with factory-based machine production ( McKendrick 1983 : 31–2 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ People are often taken on short-term contracts , proper jobs are very hard to come by . |
| 24 | ‘ Come on dear ! |
| 25 | Ironically , there were some respondents who said that they would have preferred to have kept on working in order to remain healthy . |
| 26 | The Iraqi air force last week announced it would attack with Exocet missiles any ship taking on Iranian crude oil . |
| 27 | When the German army followed them , they kept on the move , taking on odd jobs along the way , until they ended up in Warsaw . |
| 28 | As for the branches , it is perhaps invidious to focus upon a chosen few since in some places merely to carry on unheralded was a considerable triumph . |
| 29 | Those who have genuinely fled from persecution and who carry on normal , non-violent political activity and demonstration here have nothing to fear . |
| 30 | But as we know that MI5 taps telephones and keeps files on people simply to pass on political information to the government , one can assume that Kinnock 's call to Turnbull is not the only piece of politicised telephone tapping that goes on . |