Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [verb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was felt that small companies would be less willing to take on the responsibilities of nuclear power plants . |
| 2 | Corinth , which had done so much to bring on the war by urging on Sparta , was more damaged by it , and more permanently , than any other city . |
| 3 | It was easy enough to get the front door open one-handed , not so easy to switch on the hall light with no hands at all . |
| 4 | I wondered why McIllvanney had not told me that Rickie and Robin-Anne Crowninshield were drug addicts , then I realised that McIllvanney would not have told me anything that might have risked my acceptance of the charter , but now that I had learned that the twins had such a severe drug problem I was even less keen to take on the job . |
| 5 | ‘ Mr Jones , I 'm honoured that you should choose me , but I do feel there are others far more suited to take on the responsibility , people who 've worked in radio far longer than I have . ’ |
| 6 | It is even possible to take on the world . |
| 7 | Good lines , fair acting , and a surprisingly fresh take on the monster movie |
| 8 | Like many doctors still , scientists find it almost impossible to take on the notion of psychic energy . |
| 9 | The team manager , who had run the campaign against Meyer in 1989 , appears to have been initially reluctant to take on the task . |
| 10 | Yet these farmers had usually been placed in this situation because there was no one else willing to take on the task . |
| 11 | The same is true for France , Australia and anyone else willing to take on the Springboks . |
| 12 | Back in America , Chaka Khan and Ce Ce Peniston offer very different takes on the role of the soul diva . |
| 13 | If I had had qualifications I should not have been able to use them legally , and I should have been too hoity-toity to take on the sort of me-nial , unregulated work available . |
| 14 | The leather baggage and glass cosmetic pots of the day were too heavy to take on the plane but she managed to find lighter substitutes and so became a pioneer of lightweight luggage , as well as a pioneer female passenger . |