Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was interesting to take on these different values and it gave us a new perspective . ’ |
| 2 | It is now widely accepted that the Chairmanship of the Bar is virtually a full time job , and the profession has been fortunate indeed in the people who have been prepared to take on that responsibility and make that commitment . |
| 3 | His counterparty could be someone who is prepared to take on that extra risk by selling a future or writing a call option . |
| 4 | Well the City in fact has twenty one Community Centres , most of which have bars , some of them only have small bars that open maybe once a week , others have very large bars , and especially the ones with the larger bars I think are willing to take on such a project . |
| 5 | The Italians like to run their own tours , rather like a closed shop , so I need to find an operator willing to take on more tourists . |
| 6 | As Mr Frohnmayer writes : ‘ Few , it seems , are willing to take on those who cloak themselves in the mantle of religion , no matter how far they stray from religious doctrine or behaviour . ’ |
| 7 | TVMM will have just under 8 per cent and Charles Romaine , the sales director of HTV , said TVMM would be willing to take on any other groups to bring that total closer to 25 per cent . |
| 8 | The accountant will identify whether there is a need to establish a PAYE scheme and , if the band or their manager are n't willing to take on this responsibility , the accountant will operate this scheme on their behalf . |
| 9 | Second , whether adoptive parents could be found who are willing to take on this new challenge . |
| 10 | Nor have the courts seemed willing to take on this task . |
| 11 | So we 're very lucky indeed , I say without any hesitation whatever , that Jeffrey has been willing to take on this |
| 12 | He sat in silence as she worked , and for that , at least , she was grateful , knowing it would be well-nigh impossible to carry on any kind of sane conversation right now . |
| 13 | I was just going to say , I think what you say on full employment , erm , elsewhere they 're keeping wages and pay up is n't it , erm , and I 've known a couple in Telford again , that there 's work there , a new company it 's perfectly easy to take on all the good skilled labour they want , then they say they feel they 're very guilty because they 're poaching it from across the road , the British company has probably been two wages so that the jobs , it does mount up , so I do n't , I , I would like to know more about erm , what the low pay unit would really do to help us , and I look at this eight thousand two hundred and eighty pounds , and I think that would go an awful long way in the Mr Chairman , in helping to keep that going , which creates all the people who leave and get jobs , and good jobs , and get skills , and erm , I , I , it may be if there 's going to be a big budget , eight thousand pounds is not very much , but I , but when you think an individual project like that of course , any sort of traineeship , it 's a lot of money . |
| 14 | But so far only Brodsworth has been taken in this way and the signs are that English Heritage , which is under severe financial pressure , is not likely to take on many , if any , further houses . |
| 15 | Benhabyles , as chair of the Constitutional Council , should have assumed interim presidential powers in the absence of a Speaker of the National Assembly , but was apparently unwilling to take on this responsibility , under which he would have been obliged to organize presidential elections within 45 days . |
| 16 | We would be quite happy to pass on this information to persons planning on visiting and/or diving in the Florida Keys . |
| 17 | Some management theorists maintain that in every organisation there is a hard core of mavericks who are reluctant to take on more responsibility . |
| 18 | JE : Joan , were you at all reluctant to take on this major role so late in your career ? |
| 19 | They wo n't be able to just move on because their permanent pitches , what they call permanent pitches which I 'm not sure exactly what it is , but that is what they 're called , so presumably I mean they 're not going to be able to move on all of a sudden . |
| 20 | We would be most unwise to take on this role in the current economic climate . |
| 21 | She was too drained to carry on this impossible , futile war any longer . |
| 22 | I 'm fine , ’ Laura mumbled , so used to silence first thing in the morning that she was finding it incredibly difficult to carry on any form of conversation . |
| 23 | Holt does not want children to be obliged to take on any of these responsibilities and he manages to make his point by concentrating solely on the rights so that he can remark : |
| 24 | Lord Denning MR said : Every member of the community is entitled to carry on any trade or business he chooses and in such manner as he thinks most desirable in his own interests , so long as he does nothing unlawful : with the consequence that any contract which interferes with the free exercise of his trade or business , by restricting him in the work he may do for others , or the arrangements which he may make with others , is a contract in restraint of trade . |
| 25 | I 'll send letters by you to Rhys and Gwilym , and they 'll have a man waiting across Severn at Guilsfield , ready to pass on any word you send him . |
| 26 | These ‘ duty orders ’ were to be brought in to match the varying rates at which authorities became ready to take on such responsibilities . |
| 27 | Since Gatting and his troops had retained the Ashes just a few days beforehand , they were ready to take on all comers . |
| 28 | From the time that I was about eight , the Boxing Booth acted as a magnet to me and I spent a considerable time gazing in awe as the boxers paraded on the small stage outside the tent , ready to take on all corners . |
| 29 | The Mantela was an honest ship , with no frills , but ready to take on all comers . |