Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | He is the natural author to take on the popular character to so successfully revived in ‘ Batman 2 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A charming children 's story in which a small helicopter takes on the biggest financial brains in Europe and the USA , and loses badly . |
| 8 | He may simply not have had enough money to take on the extra land and the work as required for it . |
| 9 | Back to form Sandy Cottage takes on the classy Lovely Charlott in the 6th Year Marathon . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is a sufficient approximation to take on the right-hand side of eqn ( 7.20 ) , so that . |