Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] take on the " in BNC.

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1 Then there were truly new beginnings , a hated Poor Law , dead and buried ; a single , uncluttered task — to improve the quality of public care ; and a specially recruited ( and largely newly trained ) new band of professionals to take on the exciting role of pioneers .
2 A third group of carers take on the job because they feel that they have to .
3 She was admitted for mobilisation , but tests requested the next morning on samples taken on the evening of admission showed a serum glucose concentration of 56.1 mmol/l .
4 The discovery instead went to a professional astronomer , Konrad Rudnicki , who shortly thereafter found the comet on photographs taken on the large telescope at Palomar Mountain .
5 Pollen analysis from samples taken on the spot have proved to be of prehistoric vegetation , while carbon dating of fragments of burnt wood have suggested a date of roughly 16,500 BC .
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