Example sentences of "take on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rules originally designed for efficiency take on a significance which is totally unrelated to any organisational goal ; |
| 2 | Strangely , as they soar ever upwards , the balloons take on a mushroom-shape as if there 's been a nuclear explosion beneath . |
| 3 | HIT THE NORTH sees Mark Radcliffe take on a session from No Man who are some of Japan . |
| 4 | I take on a board all the comments that are made here , I I think they do need investigation . |
| 5 | In people with sickle cell anaemia , the molecule that carries oxygen in the blood , haemoglobin , is abnormal , and the red blood cells take on a sickle shape . |
| 6 | If the analyst normalises to the conventional written form , the words take on a formality and specificity which necessarily misrepresent the spoken form . |
| 7 | ‘ You see , we usually take on a couple of girls locally for when the season picks up . |
| 8 | The wealth and power of the Victorian cities and the civic pride expressed in their impressive town halls , first enabled them to pioneer public services ; later it permitted them to build up teams of technical staff and take on a range of tasks of increasing complexity and sensitivity . |
| 9 | The barriers take on a variety of forms including cartel agreements or arrangements , national market organisations ( such as co-operatives or trade associations ) which discriminate against other EC nationals , and abusive monopolisation of markets . |
| 10 | Whereas other types of programme have the professional broadcaster take on a sort of translating or ‘ brokerage ’ role between the experts and the public . |
| 11 | First , bodies of thought take on a solidity through being structured around dominant paradigms . |
| 12 | When tenants take on a lease they may make extensive alterations to the premises in order to make them better suited to the type of catering enterprise they intend to undertake . |
| 13 | Wiz sounds as elusive and fragile as ever — lost somewhere in his own private world — while musically the songs take on a rougher-edged , gritty power . |
| 14 | In effect governments take on a commitment to support a part of the costs of several hundred projects at any one time , such ‘ counterpart funding ’ in countries like Kenya or Tanzania frequently amounts to a nominal commitment of about $200 million per year . |
| 15 | Yeah , like the electricity , but your chickens come home to roost when your overtime goes , when your job goes and you take on a commitment and they never , the last ten , fifteen , twenty , twenty five years and they 've never ever , ever taken on a commitment like that before , when it 's presented with just the roses around it , everything 's sweetness and light and roses and the other side is n't really put , put to you , think of the worse scenario , you 're out of a job , what can you do ? |
| 16 | Today England , having demolished a Railways XI containing no opposition of any note , take on a team sponsored by Air India , which looks almost as weak . |
| 17 | But the highlight for me was a thumping take on a buzzer which came adrift after a couple of really powerful lunges . |
| 18 | Events in our own lives take on a pattern , as if we really were walking with God in our midst , guided continually by his presence . |
| 19 | On that view , institutional forms created by men to suit their common or social needs at a particular point in time take on a being of their own . |
| 20 | ‘ As Emporio spreads and grows , I will concentrate more on doing a few limited pieces for the special clients who buy my signature line , ’ he smiles , betraying a special fondness for those who grudge no expense for a new take on a shoulder-line , a fresh twist to this year 's lapel that simply can not be copied in a less fluid fabric at a lower price . |
| 21 | Eighteen months ago the CBI suggested that the HSE take on a number of extra people to monitor the burgeoning biotechnology industry , but this has not been done . |
| 22 | If you take on a project , you take it on and put everything into it . ’ |