Example sentences of "take on the [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the new structure erm moves towards erm team working across the advice centre composes of three teams er and also , takes on the critical self managing team so that erm in terms of the this work and technical support that er , has in the past been offered by a team leader , er , team leader and advice centre manager that will be , in the future will be offered by a senior member of staff erm , for each other and for less experienced staff . |
| 2 | Switzerland stood down from taking on the rotating EFTA presidency in the first six months of 1993 , taking up instead the vice-presidency ( in charge of negotiations with third countries , including eastern Europe ) ; the presidency passed instead to Sweden . |
| 3 | De Niro , in his funniest performance since Rupert King Of Comedy Pupkin plays a small-time New York lawyer keen to be someone , to make his mark by taking on the local crime boss/boxing promoter as well as tangling with the local barman 's wife played by Cape Fear co star Jessica Lange . |
| 4 | In Jennings 's absence Neil Barker , one of this season 's England newcomers , took on the chief goalscoring role , ably supported by his captain Andy Halliday . |
| 5 | Torres also took on the Foreign Affairs portfolio , Vice-Adml. ( retd ) Raúl Sánchez Sotomayor being unexpectedly dropped from the Cabinet . |
| 6 | The last time Gloucester went to Tyneside to play in the cup they took on the old Gosforth team … the score that day … 26-15 to the Cherry and whites … that was almost three years ago … |
| 7 | An enterprising parents ' association at one primary school took on the short term lease of a shop in the local High Street in the pre-Christmas period and made a substantial profit by buying in stock from discount warehouses and retailing in competition with other traders . |
| 8 | So the Foreign Office turned a bland eye — nobody was exactly complaining out loud — and we took on the whole Sims organisation as a going concern . |
| 9 | They have taken on the single-seat Broburn Wanderlust sailplane stored since the mid-1940s at Farnborough , Hants . |
| 10 | Finnish Foreign Minister Pertti Salolainen , leading the EFTA side since Finland had taken on the rotating EFTA chairmanship on July 1 , confirmed on July 30 that the talks would restart in September . |
| 11 | Taken on the Great Barrier Reef by Chris Howes . |
| 12 | How could she expect to take on the powerful Lucenzo Salviati — a man with centuries of trickery in his blood — and come out top ? |
| 13 | I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape . |
| 14 | But he left to take on the run-down Staffordshire country house called Alton Towers and made it into a top leisure and theme park . |