Example sentences of "[noun sg] take on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second section shows the action taken on the particular version of the module , and the name of the LIFESPAN user who carried out the action . |
| 2 | Ritual is an action taken on the physical level , which is intended to have effects at other levels — emotional , mental , spiritual , or all of these . |
| 3 | Negotiations with a difficult character ( e.g. the Pied Piper holding the town 's children in the mountain caverns ) are better conducted with the teacher taking on the problematic role because the teacher can judge just how difficult to make the task , and can allow the children success when they need it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He is the natural author to take on the popular character to so successfully revived in ‘ Batman 2 ’ . |
| 6 | TRAINERS have shunned the chance to take on the brilliant miler Zafonic at Royal Ascot next week . |
| 7 | Ideally , the community physiotherapist takes on the wider responsibility of not only teaching the carers , but also assessing and treating the patient 's particular problems through a progressive rehabilitation programme . |
| 8 | The members simply have not the time at their disposal to take on the continuous pressure needed to effectively construct a platform for alternative or opposing views . |
| 9 | Whatever decision the government takes on the East-west route , the amount of traffic on the roads will continue to grow — and despite the problems of freight , the vast majority of vehicles on the roads — over 80% — are private cars . |
| 10 | ‘ Margaret , ’ called my mother , and ‘ Margaret ’ again , her voice taking on the faint exasperation that had flavoured her tone as she used my name for many years now . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The installation of a Lasercomp in 1979 enabled the Division to take on the filmsetting work of the Computer Assisted Typesetting unit as well as expand the range of their own setting . |
| 13 | He may simply not have had enough money to take on the extra land and the work as required for it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Slow transit constipation can be distinguished from outlet obstruction by the ingestion of a capsule containing 20 shapes followed by an abdominal x ray film taken on the fifth day ; 80% retention of the markers signifies slow colonic transit . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is a sufficient approximation to take on the right-hand side of eqn ( 7.20 ) , so that . |
| 19 | There are times ’ — Rose 's face took on the fierce expression of a schoolgirl talking about her most hated teacher — ‘ when I 'd like to brain her with one of her own golf-clubs ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Thanks , ’ he said dryly , his face taking on the blank expression it usually had when he was annoyed . |
| 21 | Thus the right hemisphere is well-placed to undertake the early parallel , preconscious scanning of large amounts of information , the left taking on the later function of conscious elaboration of selected items . |
| 22 | Increase the time on the outbound leg by half the difference between the time taken on the first turn from the entry heading ( 145° above ) and from the hold axis . |