Example sentences of "[adv] take on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was astonished when I was told they did n't want anyone from Scotland for they were only taking on Irish staff . |
| 2 | not only was the undergraduate teaching poor , but there was only a minimal amount of postgraduate education in this subject ; part of the reason for this was that there was a shortage of suitable qualified and experienced doctors who knew enough to take on such postgraduate teaching ; |
| 3 | His first decision had been only to take on older parts . |
| 4 | I only take on fit guys that do n't heart-attack on me and get their family and friends down here sueing . |
| 5 | They begin , after all , as caricatures who only take on further dimensions as the tale develops . |
| 6 | If the purchaser does not take on such persons and they are subsequently shown to be employees , they will be protected by the Transfer Regulations and the purchaser will be liable for any costs of redundancy or dismissal . |
| 7 | ‘ I shall not take on any Hungarians . |
| 8 | Their problem is not that they could not take on this responsibility before but that they were not asked to . |
| 9 | Pioneering NHS industrial units in large hospitals thus took on subcontracted work from local factories . |
| 10 | Not taking on more work yourself in order to take over financial responsibility from the primary sufferer while he or she continues to drink . |
| 11 | Cattle were no longer taken on long drives , but were delivered by rail and cattle drives were then made illegal . |
| 12 | On the back of their expected thirty thousand pound cash injection they 've already taken on extra staff . |
| 13 | It is important not to take on over-ambitious tasks or the client will feel demoralized . |
| 14 | But the Merc 420Se , due to be replaced by the new S-class , can still take on all comers and hold its own . |
| 15 | He gradually took on full-time work in the same company , and gained three promotions within a year . |
| 16 | The photographs in the Leica were the only pictures of the flier that were ever taken on British soil . |
| 17 | Particularly when VATable goods are usually taken on firm sale and have tighter credit periods than bookselling . |
| 18 | Well I could I could er I could probably take on that task if you wish , cos it 's easy enough to actually write letters to people , cos I can just ask my secretary to do that . |
| 19 | In April 1993 the Department of Social Work will also take on new duties for funding some private and voluntary residential and nursing home places . |
| 20 | Another old belief of hers and one which died hard , which refused to die , was that no man will willingly take on another man 's children . |
| 21 | Mahmoud , of course , as a Moslem , did not drink alcohol , and Owen , who habitually took on protective colouring , fell into line without thinking . |
| 22 | I understood how and why Jean-Claude had so enthusiastically taken on this work . |
| 23 | There might have been an economic argument for Britain to stay out , but the decision was quite clearly taken on political grounds . |
| 24 | Three of its board directors have also taken on additional responsibilities and have duly been retitled group executive directors . |
| 25 | So the suppliers also take on more responsibility for R&D . |
| 26 | Sufficient money was quickly raised to buy the materials necessary for the construction of Harrier Hide ; a sponsored bird watch in competition with the Leicestershire and Rutland Ornithological Society and the Trust resulted in enough money for a new wader scrape ; and work parties regularly turn up to take on any job that Tim Appleton , the Warden , asks of them . |
| 27 | As well as acting he has moved also to take on Artistic Directorship of his own company , Compass . |
| 28 | California in the 1960s was not only a big and important state , it was also a political forcing ground where developments were occurring in microcosm that would eventually take on national dimensions . |
| 29 | Grunfeld , 25 , the eighth seed from Manchester , now takes on Romanian Ruxandra Dragomir , a 6–3 , 6–0 winner over Russian Natalia Bykova-Egorova , for a place in the third round . |
| 30 | within the department without having to really take on extra ones . |