Example sentences of "[art] [noun] take on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of them , it was suggested by the organisations we spoke to , are married women with domestic commitments who are unable or unwilling to work on a regular basis but who value the opportunity to take on occasional work outside normal hours , particularly in the pre-Christmas period ( the height of the banqueting season ) . |
| 2 | record the decision taken on each change , ie. approved or rejected , on the Changes Log |
| 3 | Mr. Beloff accepts that there remain issues between Lautro and Winchester and he further accepts that there may be room for argument as to whether the material now available would , if it had been produced before 30 October , have made a difference to the decision taken on that day . |
| 4 | It was to broaden the opportunities to take on this role , particularly for the new and smaller client , that the Law Society of Scotland introduced the Commercial Health Check scheme in April 1992 as part of Scottish Business Services . |
| 5 | He admits that in the Eighties the card took on some people who were not quite of the calibre of its existing client portfolio . |
| 6 | The Mariners take on Third Division Halifax Town at College Road next Saturday in a first round tie which the Crosby side are quietly confident of winning . |
| 7 | The Mariners take on Third Division Halifax Town at College Road next Saturday in a first round tie which the Crosby side are quietly confident of winning . |
| 8 | On the whole socialist feminists were suspicious of allowances on the grounds that they would undermine male wage-bargaining and preferred to argue , like Ada Nield Chew , for services in kind to support mothers in the ‘ drudgery ’ of child care ; Fabian women preferred direct payment to mothers in order to maintain their economic independence from their husbands and free them from the need to take on paid work which would distract them from their primary task of mothering ( Alexander , 1979 ) . |
| 9 | If the real wage rate has temporarily risen , as workers are supposed to believe , employers will have the incentive to take on fewer workers . |
| 10 | The creation of the enterprise culture in deprived areas of the North and the ‘ inner cities ’ is fundamentally about the creation of jobs at lower wages than were previously viewed as acceptable and reducing entitlement to benefit and levels of benefit in order to increase the incentive to take on these jobs . |
| 11 | Actually , this might have been quite productive since therapy is supposed to be a microcosm of your relationships , with the therapist taking on multiple roles . |
| 12 | In the context of giant industries such as electricity supply the questions take on considerable significance . |
| 13 | Increasingly the Scots were coming to feel that they had benefited little from the establishment of the new regime in 1689 , and as a result Jacobitism north of the border took on nationalistic overtones . |
| 14 | Where there is an increasing use of decentralised structures and accountability we would expect individuals lower down the organisation to take on more responsibility . |
| 15 | To a certain extent , the final draft betrays the fact that it was the product of compromise between those countries with highly developed regulatory control of mergers ( particularly the United Kingdom and West Germany ) which were reluctant to see control of mergers transferred to Brussels , and those countries with no or less effective control , which were keen for the Commission to take on that role . |
| 16 | A scheme the weekly earnings disregard from £15 for a man and dependent wife to £60 a week for six months , to encourage the over-50s to take on part-time work . |
| 17 | Once the basic strategy has been decided the timing of the offer takes on particular significance . |
| 18 | As the firm takes on more debt , so the cost of equity ( the total return demanded by investors ) must rise in proportion . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Usually , the contract will mention the fee , but this provision might be useful if the supplier takes on additional work at the request of the other party and no mention is made at the time of agreement of the charge for this extra work . |
| 21 | As I was thinking this , Pike started to laugh and the voice took on more colour . |
| 22 | The agency takes on any kind of job — you just name the subject and give us some indication of the kind of thing you want to know , and then we go out and get it for you . ’ |
| 23 | The line to take on capital punishment was that what urgently mattered was not the form of punishment , but making sure that people can live in safety and without fear . |
| 24 | Amazingly , the film takes on instant depth the minute it touches ‘ American ’ soil , suggesting something very like moral ambiguity as Columbus suddenly turns into the hard-arsed imperialist we now fondly imagine him to be . |
| 25 | The principle took on particular importance in the light of the development of totalitarian communism , and the Roman church saw the threat to be endemic in the growth of the modern state apparatus , including its welfare institutions . |
| 26 | As she grew older the problem took on mammoth proportions . |
| 27 | The position was rectified only slowly , the USA taking on first part and then , by the end of 1947 , the whole of the burden . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've got unlimited credit ’ sounds a proud boast ; ‘ I 've got the ability to take on unlimited debts ’ is far more ominous . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've got unlimited credit ’ sounds a proud boast ; ‘ I 've got the ability to take on unlimited debts ’ is far more ominous . |
| 30 | The aircraft serve to show the incredible adaptability of the design to take on new roles and new shapes . |