Example sentences of "take on the [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working at the top end of the market as he did , Roche was taking on the most difficult assignments , but they were also the most remunerative and had the greatest publicity value . |
| 2 | James took on the rather unglamorous task of editing the party paper , ‘ The Nation ’ and , almost single-handedly , established the paper 's reputation and prestige throughout the West Indies . |
| 3 | The night creatures which had drifted through the streets were no more , and the market stalls and poverty-stricken beggars took on the more comforting image of a capital apparently little changed since Blake 's day . |
| 4 | The technique in question is Bob Blake 's Managerial Grid , still going strong 30 years after it was developed in the US , and likely to show new life in the UK now that management consultants P-E International have taken on the somewhat dusty licence . |
| 5 | The qualities which they attribute to literacy thus take on the more general significance of justifying the vast expense on western education systems . |
| 6 | But this is exactly the sort of attitude that has forced RAF pilots to take on the most terrifying assignments and attack runways and hardened aircraft shelters ( built with British expertise ) , to be fired on by Soviet missiles or Soviet antiaircraft guns , or face the threat of German-developed chemical warfare or French Exocet missiles . |