Example sentences of "[conj] take on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McAllister or Strach would feed it out to Sharp ( who was absolutely brill — see below ) who would either wait for the overlap from Dorigo or take on Breacker ( skinning him most of the time ) . |
| 2 | Some lenders have already had their fingers burnt and have had to write off loans and lose their investments , rather than take on responsibility for contaminated land which was part of their security . |
| 3 | Most companies , including employment agencies , were thinking of laying off rather than taking on staff . |
| 4 | Your plan that taking on Suzi as the dancer would avoid the Gesner problem . ’ |
| 5 | Because I mind our Dad saying : ‘ She 'd do better to take on a class o' twelve-years-olds than take on Walter Machin ! ’ |
| 6 | Well good luck to you because er you know I can tell you right now we are one of the few companies that take on people in their fifties . |
| 7 | Just think of the businesses that take on people who are on the social . |
| 8 | Doomsday cuts a swathe across the States and takes on Superman in a clash of the titans . |
| 9 | Surely it would be better to have Home Helps , Meals on Wheels , all that , and a Social Worker to advise and take on responsibility , than have to do it all yourself ? |
| 10 | Er if you want to come on Loot and Lunchtime tomorrow ten to one quarter to oneish listen in then for the qualifying question and you can come on and take on June from Mansfield who 's our reigning champ . |
| 11 | In fact they spend so much time flying head first into burns , one would have thought they could save even more time by simply opening their mouths and taking on water without the inconvenience of having to reach for the day-glo bottle . |
| 12 | Soon , the craft was making its way through the darkness over twenty-foot waves and taking on water . |
| 13 | There may be difficulties in particular law centres in finding the right balance between assisting clients in individual cases and taking on group work or projects , but it seems unduly restrictive to deny that the latter was a proper role for lawyers to play . |
| 14 | This commitment has manifested itself in many ways , e.g. sending out people to speak at schools , inviting school groups to tour the centre , awarding business scholarships to sixth formers and taking on pupils for work experience . |
| 15 | Having reached Aulef and taken on water , that night was a pit stop . |
| 16 | A government spokesman said yesterday : ‘ Tenders are looked at individually and taken on merit . ’ |
| 17 | Jarvis thinks the decision to break with tradition and bring in Indian prodigy Sachin Tendulkar last summer , and take on West Indies captain Richie Richardson next season was the right one . |
| 18 | Even though the annual value of these rights could hardly have been as much as £100,000 a year , the Company was ready to outdo the Bank of England and the East India Company and take on £9½m. of the National Debt , which would have been about a quarter of the total outstanding after the Treaty of Utrecht . |
| 19 | As well as the $200 million consideration , Peabody will pay an adjustment — estimated at $34 million — for final net assets and take on borrowings of about $65 million . |
| 20 | If you want to come on Loot at Lunchtime tomorrow erm five to one , ten to oneish , listen in then just after the Action Line bulletin and you can come on tomorrow perhaps and take on Sue from Chesterfield . |
| 21 | You hit the bottom of the valley , wait for the arms to stop shaking from the effort of holding the bike 's front wheel to its course and take on food from the station de ravitaillement . |
| 22 | The importance of the shift for the purposes of this book is that the growing competition among states-as-suitors means that government has shed some powers , but taken on others . |
| 23 | He claims this is typical of the market in general , because taking on X is a major strategic decision : ‘ X Windows is still embryonic , and with the recession people are delaying their decision making ’ . |
| 24 | The vast majority of employers , he said , hardly took GCSE results into account when taking on youngsters , because they often recruited weeks before results came out . |
| 25 | But he has been the Labour Party 's chosen candidate for almost two years and in that time he has worked hard to build up a high profile , assiduously interpreting official figures on unemployment , training and hospital waiting lists as well as taking on directors of newly-privatised monopolies . |