Example sentences of "[adj] take on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One correspondent asserts that whilst there is no shortage of organists , there is a dearth of those who are prepared to take on the regular commitment of parish church music . |
| 2 | The society has launched a search for an actor willing to take on the key role of Young Walsingham in their latest production . |
| 3 | As competition for places on the Kindertransporte mounted to panic proportions , the chances of success turned increasingly on knowing the right people — an official who could hurry through an application or , more critically , someone in Britain who was willing to take on the financial responsibility of acting as a guarantor . |
| 4 | In 1973 , a Japanese motoring enthusiast bought a Super Seven and before long he was back , determined to import the cars into Japan and more than willing to take on the red tape . |
| 5 | The choice indicates how much the state is willing to take on an active role of managing national resources for greater international competitiveness , and in what form . |
| 6 | Other TI partners likely to take on the new technology for X-Terminals include C.Itoh , which launched the CIT-XE+ range at the show , ADDS/NCR , DEC , IBM , Megatek , Princeton Graphics , Sun River , Tandberg Data , Visual and Zentec . |
| 7 | The manager may be the only member of the team who is present in the office full time to fill these gaps and the responsibility of ensuring continuity for clients may make a manager reluctant to take on a large team of very part-time volunteers . |
| 8 | So Murphy , a man with a deep knowledge of the game , will be a help to the beleaguered Ciaran Fitzgerald as the whitewashed Irish take on the All Blacks . |
| 9 | They must be daft to take on the British Empire . |
| 10 | In part two , as the Featherstonehaughs preen themselves in pristine white tuxedos , flaunting two-foot mug shots offering surrealist images of bodyless faces , hands and legs emerging and retreating , the word precious takes on a different meaning : while yet further connotations appear as the Cholmondeleys , in voluptuous crimson velvet , sensually stimulate the imagination in part three . |
| 11 | At one time sharing the old Norn language , even there we had been forced to diverge , because while Shetland became absorbed into Scotland and obliged to take on the Scots/English language , the Faroese managed to retain and develop their own language , using that of their ‘ parent ’ country Denmark as the second tongue . |
| 12 | Britten combines this with a highly resourceful method of linking and transforming themes , so that ideas which are at first simply pictorial take on a psychological meaning in the story , or vice versa . |
| 13 | At the end of four years , successful apprentices will have all the skills of a first class mechanical and be ready to take on a full role in the factory . |