Example sentences of "[be] [adj] to take [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we 're very lucky indeed , I say without any hesitation whatever , that Jeffrey has been willing to take on this |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Second , whether adoptive parents could be found who are willing to take on this new challenge . |
| 6 | Demographic pressures mean that more women are likely to take up paid employment in the future . |
| 7 | Some management theorists maintain that in every organisation there is a hard core of mavericks who are reluctant to take on more responsibility . |
| 8 | Making a case for the complexity of woman 's position as spectator , both critics stated that spectators are not necessarily locked into identification with their own gender but are able to take up multiple identifications , whether simultaneously or in succession . |
| 9 | I would also be prepared to take up some responsibility in the popular government , It will be a less oppressed life , more tranquil , although perhaps at home there will only be me because my husband and my two sons have been murdered by the army and the others have gone to fight . |
| 10 | A man who , through choice or redundancy , decides to work from home , may be willing to take on simple cooking and housework so that his wife can return to full-time employment . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What they did not seem to perceive was that non-intervention in the Spanish conflict was part of the policy of appeasement then being followed by the western powers , or that , even if a European war began before the Spanish conflict were settled , the European democracies would be reluctant to take on extended commitments , especially if this meant running the risk — as they saw it — of assisting communism on Europe 's southern flank . |
| 13 | But , as in the case say of a temporary administrator coming in he 'd be able to or she would be able to take up this file and use it . |
| 14 | It may recognise that once the youngest child has left home the wife may again be able to take up gainful employment but that until that time she should be provided with a home rent free . |
| 15 | Cray is finding it harder and harder to grow its monolithic supercomputers as the world edges towards parallel systems with the view that they will be able to take over many of the tasks presently handled by today 's vector processors , and you ca n't enter an IBM lab these days without stumbling over some kind of parallel processing development project . |
| 16 | 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 : |
| 17 | It is not clear whether or not Harris thinks that children of 10 should be obliged to take on full political status whether or not they want to , but Holt clearly does not . |
| 18 | They will be obliged to take back rejected refugees . |
| 19 | It may be wise to take over some livestock with the farm , particularly if it is home-bred and acclimatized , but there is a great danger of taking on too much too soon . |
| 20 | It is further suggested that this will lead to women being able to take up paid work instead , further advancing their equality with men . |
| 21 | Since Gatting and his troops had retained the Ashes just a few days beforehand , they were ready to take on all comers . |
| 22 | ‘ The way I understand it firms are obliged to take on disabled men from the war . ‘ |
| 23 | His counterparty could be someone who is prepared to take on that extra risk by selling a future or writing a call option . |
| 24 | Young goalie , John Slack ( 38 ) , has recovered from a dislocated shoulder and broken nose he sustained during a pre-season tactical discussion with Trevor Proby and is eager to take up that vital position between the posts once again . |
| 25 | It has 460 people on its books — all of them far better qualified than Macaulay Culkin in the hit film Home Alone — who are ready to take up temporary residence anywhere from John O'Groats to Land 's End . |
| 26 | With brothers Turner and Terts Ashibi now acting as coach and physiotherapist respectively , the team are ready to take on other challenges . |
| 27 | It was foolish to take on two , but I could n't stomach what they were at . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It was interesting to take on these different values and it gave us a new perspective . ’ |
| 29 | Now we had originally had this extra facility available er so that we could trade off life against the extra thrust in an emergency but there was clearly the possibility erm that that might be used er when it really was n't necessary and we would end up with extra costs , extra life cycle costs , shorter engine life and it was felt on balance that with a reduced threat overall that it was sensible to take out that facility and to accept a longer engine life , but not , there 's no reduction in the total normal thrust but its merely its override combat facility . |
| 30 | Greater Manchester , unable to finance its own units , was content to take up twelve redundant ex-Scottish Class 303s , at the same time reducing its fleet of equally geriatric slam-door Class 304s from four to three cars . |