Example sentences of "will take on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He will take on the new post of Communications Manager , ‘ leading and co-ordinating all aspects of our public relations ’ , according to Sotheby 's Chairman Lord Gowrie .
2 Experiments in pickling different alloys of copper and zinc have shown that only alloys with between 2 and 10 per cent of copper in the zinc will take on the black patina , and the silver and brass inlays are unaffected by the pickling solution .
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 That assumption allows us to retrace and anticipate , as it were , the steps a statesman — past , present , or future — has taken or will take on the political scene .
5 Later today the Argentinian will take on the third seed , Conchita Martinez of Spain , who beat Sabatini 's compatriot Patricia Tarabini in the quarter-final .
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