Example sentences of "on the [adj] task " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When political conflicts rage , it is far harder to take on the awkward task of asking why this particular standard was set up in the first place . |
| 3 | Taking on the difficult task of choosing a winner is London-based Olive Hurford-Porter , whose connection with the amateur operatic movement spans five decades as performer , choreographer and director . |
| 4 | Matthew Spender ( son of the poet Stephen ) has taken on the harder task of writing about Tuscany from within . |
| 5 | I can even remember when Finnegans Wake was thought to be incomprehensible and the gentleman sitting on my right , George Craig , is almost , but not quite , my contemporary at this university and I was genuinely delighted when he agreed to take on the herculean task of giving a lecture a centenary lecture on James Joyce . |
| 6 | B U choose the Merry Widow because their last show White Horse was so successful the B U Musical Society have decided to take on the ambitious task of tackling the Merry Widow for their next production . |
| 7 | DR GEORGE Preti of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia took on the unenviable task of ‘ harvesting ’ sweat from the acrid armpits of scores of male volunteers . |
| 8 | Mark Jones , the exhibition 's curator , has taken on the dual task of tracing the history of forgery from archaic Babylon to contemporary California , while at the same time tracing the history of how forgery is understood . |