Example sentences of "take on [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 However , by delegating authority to subordinates , the superior takes on the extra tasks of calling the subordinates to account for their decisions and performance , and also of coordinating the efforts of different subordinates .
2 The disease causes its victims to waste away and take on the sharp outlines of a statue with the shiny , sickly pallid hue of marble as the disease destroys them .
3 Under the name DNV Technica , the new company will take on the current operations of the Technica Group and the risk and reliability services of DNV .
4 Trees are preparing for winter and their leaves are taking on the beautiful colours of autumn .
5 Like the rest , the ex-Croydon cars took on the visible signs of war , headlamp masks , white collision fenders and protective netting on the windows .
6 Not content with beating seven bells out of the test team at Lords The Aussies took on the Combined Universities in a three day game today and almost strangled it at birth .
7 Thus , playing to the Germans ' appeal for order , these two brave Frenchmen secured for the trade a buffer in the form of the CIVC which took on the day-to-day unpleasantries of dealing with an alien administration .
8 They asked the individual chief officers to prepare reports to the committees on action that could be taken on the detailed recommendations of Friends of the Earth .
9 In his day he has taken on the big guns of industry , commercialised culture and of whole countries ( who can easily forget his devastating portrait of Mrs Thatcher and the fawning Saatchi brothers ? ) .
10 Today Wales B take on the shaken Aussies in Cardiff — and Davies does n't rule out another shock Welsh win .
11 Practically , it means that students have to become used to expressing a point of view and exposing it to the critical evaluation of their peers , and in this way take on the ethical demands of rationality .
12 This remark had important implications in the theory of the technique of psychoanalysis , where transference — the way the analyst comes to take on the emotional elements of a parent figure for the analysand — plays a key part in understanding the therapeutic effects of psychoanalysis .
13 They moved there in 1965 to take on the joint roles of warden and matron at the then residential and day training centre for the mentally handicapped .
14 Farr-Jones was clearly in a mood to enjoy himself before joining the Barbarians to take on the All Blacks at Twickenham on Saturday .
15 In theory , each of these has the capacity to know to be a medium and even large scale business , and to take on the corporate giants in the course of time .
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