Example sentences of "[vb pp] with the task " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his success at Grassington Barratt was now presented with the task of shaping the Coniston Copper Mines into a viable entity . |
| 2 | Dealers , debt collecting in pairs , were often so frustrated with the task that they did other things instead . |
| 3 | THE team entrusted with the task of putting the little-known sport of boccia on the British sporting map has been selected following last week 's national championships at York University . |
| 4 | There Burn worked on the drawings of Lowther Castle and was entrusted with the task of supervising the building of Covent Garden Theatre , an arduous nine-month feat of office and site organisation in which he was hard put to maintain a working relationship between his 27-year-old employer and the contractor , Alexander Copeland , one of the giants of the London building world . |
| 5 | These two armies comprised the German right wing , entrusted with the task of encircling Paris . |
| 6 | The officials who were entrusted with the task of putting him to death behaved with as much humanity as possible . |
| 7 | These diverging tendencies in Nizan 's life-style , on the one hand a genuine aspiration towards a communist future , on the other hand a residual implication in a bourgeois past , were symptomatic of a " tension " in Nizan 's life and work at this time , a " tension " that was resolved only in late 1932 and early 1933 , when he became a permanent official entrusted with the task of compiling the weekly " notes de lecture " in L'Humanite and of supervising the party newspaper 's bookshop located at 120 rue Lafayette . |
| 8 | Following the change of party line in 1934 , which occurred during his stay in the Soviet Union , Nizan was entrusted with the task of liaising with fellow-travelling intellectuals such as Malraux , Gide and Bloch , who were attending the Soviet Writers Congress of that year . |
| 9 | He is also the honoured fellow entrusted with the task of pulling together ‘ Rubaiyat ’ , the 38-track celebration of Elektra 's 40th anniversary . |
| 10 | In fact , in 1914 he was entrusted with the task of servicing loans guaranteed by customs revenue earmarked for that purpose . |
| 11 | It occurred to me that the minions Kruger had entrusted with the task of feeding me to Heckle and Jeckle had been careless . |
| 12 | As with cathedral buildings , time was entrusted with the task of seasoning and moulding the diverse parts into a harmonious whole . |
| 13 | You see I 've been entrusted with the task of getting him safely back to the Reich and I 've little more than three weeks to do it in . ’ |
| 14 | He is also the honoured fellow entrusted with the task of pulling together ‘ Rubaiyat ’ , the 38-track celebration of Elektra 's 40th anniversary . |
| 15 | The government is entrusted with the task of protecting the lives , liberties and properties of the individual members of the body politic and there is a reading of Locke which I questioned last Tuesday which says that that is all a government can do . |
| 16 | However , he had persevered with the task and accepted it could be a while before he would find the kind of job he wanted . |
| 17 | For Delia , each new portrait is invested with the task of finding an appropriate vocabulary for its particular rendering . |
| 18 | Because a woman , by virtue of giving birth to a succession of children , is then landed with the task of bringing them up , is no cause to suppose children are best taught by the handful , the dozen , the score . |
| 19 | As chairman of the committee , the man saddled with the task ‘ Get my son back for me ’ twenty-four days earlier , it fell to Michael Odell . |
| 20 | Charged with the task of discovering signing and developing artists , the A&R staff are the first point of contact with a record company for the new acts who are intent on becoming the superstars of tomorrow . |
| 21 | The Council was charged with the task of seeing that the new courses were of degree standard , but was powerless to adjudicate on the wisdom or otherwise of there being so many arts-orientated courses in the first place . |
| 22 | The Secretary of State Kenneth Baker set up a committee in 1957 , charged with the task of examining A levels ( the Higginson Committee ) . |
| 23 | The Commission is charged with the task of enforcing the competition rules , and enjoys discretionary powers to exempt agreements which , despite containing certain clauses which restrict competition , have the overall effect of promoting economic progress and benefiting consumers . |
| 24 | We were not very successful in doing this , although an officer of the Department , U Sein Ywet , was charged with the task of getting in touch with abbots and monks . |
| 25 | Charged with the task of treatment and prevention and after care , they seem to have failed to develop an effective community support system for discharged patients . |
| 26 | One of the reverberations was the establishment in 1955 of the Franks Committee , charged with the task of examining the working of the system of administrative tribunals and inquiries . |
| 27 | Schools made formal written proposals , including spending plans and a rationale , and these provided the basis for consideration by the Project Coordinating Team which was charged with the task of developing project guidelines , selecting and liaising with schools , allocating the funds and monitoring the evolution of the project . |
| 28 | This was charged with the task of exploring the possibility of a network of schools , teachers , library specialists and others with a concern for developing practice in relation to the use of libraries , study skills , active methods of learning , and whole-school and departmental " effective learning " policies ( notes from Working Party 3 March 1986 ) . |
| 29 | It may surprise the reader ( who after all is charged with the task of making an important decision ) , that I should talk of my time at university as a happy one and yet still speak of my dominant emotion as fear , but then the worst is yet to come . |
| 30 | It could be charged with the task of determining priorities for primary care funding . |