Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] take on the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In addition to seeing the plaintiff in court , I have had the advantage of seeing a video , key one , showing examples of her daily routine taken on the tenth of May nineteen ninety one after she had been at home with her parents for a year .
2 Very few general hospital units , however , have recognized how important this service was to individual patients and now it usually falls to a beleaguered social worker to take on the complex task of sorting out welfare benefits ; social workers are not , however , experts in this field and it is a time-consuming task that few of them relish .
3 Practically , it means that students have to become used to expressing a point of view and exposing it to the critical evaluation of their peers , and in this way take on the ethical demands of rationality .
4 Westminster NALGO is predicting massive redundancies in the borough unless private companies take on the existing staff .
5 Production is being doubled from 300 to 600 cars a week to meet the growing demand and Rover needs the extra staff to take on the extra shifts .
6 A similar tiny gesture takes on the same value when Alain rubs one foot up and down the other leg when the girls tickle him .
7 He is the natural author to take on the popular character to so successfully revived in ‘ Batman 2 ’ .
8 An enterprising parents ' association at one primary school took on the short term lease of a shop in the local High Street in the pre-Christmas period and made a substantial profit by buying in stock from discount warehouses and retailing in competition with other traders .
9 Davidson , who was second to Richard Meade at Badminton 10 years ago on J J Babu , is among riders from 10 overseas countries taking on the British .
10 At first , he appeared to have no immediate plans to take on the armed forces .
11 A charming children 's story in which a small helicopter takes on the biggest financial brains in Europe and the USA , and loses badly .
12 He may simply not have had enough money to take on the extra land and the work as required for it .
13 Back to form Sandy Cottage takes on the classy Lovely Charlott in the 6th Year Marathon .
14 Like the rest , the ex-Croydon cars took on the visible signs of war , headlamp masks , white collision fenders and protective netting on the windows .
15 FASHION lovers will soon be able to snap up top label clothes at bargain prices as revolutionary new superstores take on the High Street giants .
16 In Lorenzo the Magnificent 's anniversary year , this publisher is also bringing out an edition of the inventory of the entire Medici residence taken on the great ruler 's death , L'inventario in morte di Lorenzo il Magnifico , edited by M. Spallanzani and G. Gaeta Bertelà .
17 If we let indicate that part of the surplus-value which serves for the personal consumption of the capitalists , and that which is turned into capital , thus , it we make and correspondingly , if we further let indicate that part of the surplus-value which is accumulated as a part of the constant capital , and that part of the surplus-value which is to be accumulated as a part of the variable capital , and thus posit and correspondingly thus the general formula for the product of both departments takes on the following form :
18 Small wonder that Heinz Dürr , AEG 's long-serving chief executive , left at the end of last year to take on the unglamorous job of running Germany 's state-owned railway company .
19 It is a sufficient approximation to take on the right-hand side of eqn ( 7.20 ) , so that .
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