Example sentences of "taking on [art] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 And a large part of my time in Uganda was spent trying to market new species , taking on a wider range of species , and a more intensive utilisation , so that you 've opened up your canopy enough to encourage the regeneration of the valuable species .
2 Events , at last , seemed to be taking on a constructive momentum of their own .
3 Austerity was Britain 's peculiar reward for surviving World War II unbeaten at the cost of selling her foreign assets and taking on a crippling load of debt to the United States .
4 The pop Poet Laureate of the cabaret circuit , Hegley chooses subjects from McDonalds to the Gulf War , from spaniels to spectacles — taking on a whole range of everyday tragedies — ‘ the other day I met a bloke lying on the pavement he 'd just had a stroke and I thought a man in his position might appreciate a joke so I said stand back please I 'm a comedian ’
5 Many distributions show a peak in a particular age group mainly associated with taking on a large number of young people when the organisation was started or reorganised , this is not desirable because it leads to excessive competition for promotion at particular stages .
6 God in Christ , through taking on a particular instance of humanity , shares with all human beings the universal , humanity , and it is that which is of significance , even though he may have different particularities from some other individuals .
7 work with or devise an increasing range of drama scripts , taking on an increasing variety of dramatic roles ;
8 We seem to be erm , taking on an enormous number of staff , er , er , at what level are we doing it ?
9 He understood now , all right , and there was some comfort in taking on the complete burden of guilt , a kind of purgative sense of martyrdom , not unrelated to self-pity .
10 We have demonstrated against petty apartheid because we are taking on the entire system of apartheid on all fronts .
11 Gloucester 's role was basically to preserve the status quo by taking on the temporary leadership of the connection , rather than to carve out a new power base for himself .
12 Gloucester 's role was basically to preserve the status quo by taking on the temporary leadership of the connection , rather than to carve out a new power base for himself .
13 Mothers of younger and younger children have been taking on the dual burden of paid work and child rearing ( see Hunt , 1968 ; Martin and Roberts , 1984 ; Joshi , 1985 ) .
14 Taking on the difficult task of choosing a winner is London-based Olive Hurford-Porter , whose connection with the amateur operatic movement spans five decades as performer , choreographer and director .
15 Marcuson found himself increasingly taking on the editorial running of the paper .
16 Yesterday he was taking on the anti-government creed of the 1980s which left economics to the free market .
17 Trees are preparing for winter and their leaves are taking on the beautiful colours of autumn .
18 Thus the right hemisphere is well-placed to undertake the early parallel , preconscious scanning of large amounts of information , the left taking on the later function of conscious elaboration of selected items .
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