Example sentences of "[be] [verb] take on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But none of the employees are expected to take on extra duties after a hard day in the shop . |
| 2 | All six degrees of freedom are seen to take on some zone of possible position or angle . |
| 3 | Many of the biggest companies are refusing to take on new clients with such cars , and are jacking up the premiums on existing business . |
| 4 | Dentists are refusing to take on new Health Service Patients . |
| 5 | Apart from , as CAJEC chairman said , ‘ clearing up any misunderstanding that this enquiry procedure is just restricted to audits — it applies to all assignments ’ , other significant changes include requiring firms to provide minimum accounting information to a successor even where fees remain outstanding and stronger procedures to be followed by firms to inform the existing adviser that they have been invited to take on additional work . |
| 6 | And ask them to take that on board , because I do n't really see why we should be expected to take on both factors . |
| 7 | Its proportions can be varied to take on new shapes . |
| 8 | Charge cards companies will not be looking to take on those customers with lower incomes who do not want to pay , or find it difficulty in paying , high credit-card interest rates . |
| 9 | If auditors are to be asked to take on greater responsibilities , there has to be a quid pro quo . |
| 10 | However , both must be allowed to take on negative values , so that we can represent negative numbers and normalized numbers with absolute value less than 1 /b . |
| 11 | I am now part of a small multi-cultural group which has been asked to take on this task . |
| 12 | But others have been forced to take on heavy debts to fight off hostile bids . |
| 13 | The status of the second level nurse has troubled the profession for years , not least because they have been depended on as the mainstay of practical bedside nursing , while being expected to take on more responsibility than their training prepared them for . |
| 14 | Thus Goldthorpe and Lockwood ( 1969 ) carried out their research among the manual workers of Luton at a time when academic opinion was saying that such people were beginning to take on middle-class characteristics . |
| 15 | HEIs have been tempted to take on more research than perhaps they should have done . |
| 16 | Next year the course is expanding to take on thirty students , including six from China , one from Kenya and one from Egypt . |
| 17 | Desire was easy to slam the door on , but emotions were a very different matter , and her fear was beginning to take on new dimensions as she realised Damian Flint threatened her heart even more than he threatened her body . |