Example sentences of "take on the [adj] [noun] [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 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 .
4 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 .
5 Released worldwide on all formats on November 24 ( Sonic Tuesday , apparently ) , once again it sees the animal libber hedgehog taking on the evil Dr Robotnik through a series of worlds ( The Mystic Cave , The Toxic Plant Zone etc ) .
6 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 .
7 Torres also took on the Foreign Affairs portfolio , Vice-Adml. ( retd ) Raúl Sánchez Sotomayor being unexpectedly dropped from the Cabinet .
8 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 …
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 They have taken on the single-seat Broburn Wanderlust sailplane stored since the mid-1940s at Farnborough , Hants .
12 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 .
13 Taken on the Great Barrier Reef by Chris Howes .
14 Multico have taken on the British marketing rights for the Delta range of machinery .
15 Karen Anderson ( LibDem ) is 20/1 and no bets are being taken on the Green candidate Steven Kenwright .
16 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 .
17 How could she expect to take on the powerful Lucenzo Salviati — a man with centuries of trickery in his blood — and come out top ?
18 I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape .
19 Being also part of the ‘ old guard ’ who had been somewhat resentful of Sydney Newman 's wind of change , Kine issued a flat ‘ No ’ when he was asked , by Mervyn Pinfield , to take on the enormous effects requirements of Doctor Who 's science fiction stories .
20 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 .
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