Example sentences of "take on the [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " 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 | ’ I wish someone else would take on the major record companies , but nobody does , and I 'm not prepared to sit back and watch them stifle British music . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | They have taken on the single-seat Broburn Wanderlust sailplane stored since the mid-1940s at Farnborough , Hants . |
| 7 | Taken on the Great Barrier Reef by Chris Howes . |
| 8 | Multico have taken on the British marketing rights for the Delta range of machinery . |
| 9 | Karen Anderson ( LibDem ) is 20/1 and no bets are being taken on the Green candidate Steven Kenwright . |
| 10 | FASHION lovers will soon be able to snap up top label clothes at bargain prices as revolutionary new superstores take on the High Street giants . |
| 11 | How could she expect to take on the powerful Lucenzo Salviati — a man with centuries of trickery in his blood — and come out top ? |
| 12 | I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape . |