Example sentences of "[noun] take on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would himself take on the Finance portfolio , with Minister of Agriculture Madun Dulloo taking on Foreign Affairs and further appointments to follow . |
| 2 | He admits that in the Eighties the card took on some people who were not quite of the calibre of its existing client portfolio . |
| 3 | The front doors were almost bare of paint and shadows cast by the gas flame took on weird shapes . |
| 4 | Even when no political or social statement was intended , the most abstruse philosophical inquiry , the most obscure historical research , the narrowest psychological study took on political meaning . |
| 5 | Very few husbands took on any household chores . |
| 6 | Suddenly the one-off singles deal took on lengthier proportions and a second single was chosen from the pack . |
| 7 | Utopia significantly improves the management of vital technical information , track end-user requests , log all action taken on those requests , and also automatically escalate the routing of information to solve day-to-day problems . |
| 8 | Though I have never heard of any one collaboration between restaurateur and artist proving more lucrative than the next , there does not seem to be any shortage of artists who will in effect take on certain risks in order to get their work out on the town . |
| 9 | It was to broaden the opportunities to take on this role , particularly for the new and smaller client , that the Law Society of Scotland introduced the Commercial Health Check scheme in April 1992 as part of Scottish Business Services . |
| 10 | After 28,000 miles perhaps winning or losing takes on less significance . |
| 11 | Sachin Tendulkar came in to a reception whose volume and pitch tended to confirm what Bishen Bedi had been saying about his sex appeal , and there was the arresting sight of a 41-year-old bowler taking on two batsmen whose combined age was 42 . |
| 12 | In the far South-west , Cornish mining took on female labour to a degree unusual in the southern part of the country . |
| 13 | As this agenda spreads to other sections of the press , to radio and to television , it produces a ‘ self-enforcing conformity ’ whose importance ‘ lies not in the nuances of attitude taken on different items on the political agenda , but rather in the common agreement on that agenda itself … ’ . |
| 14 | In Durham the engine came to a halt to take on more coal and water . |
| 15 | Havant , the leaders , who travel to Chigwell to take on Old Loughtonians , will be without their left-half , Alan Cave , with a leg injury , with the likelihood that Steve Lawson will deputise . |
| 16 | Rovers take on lowly Southend at Prenton Park ( 7.30pm ) , and King explained : ‘ Southend are a physical side full of six-footers and we have to get behind them . |
| 17 | Dr.BERRY TAKES ON TOP RESEARCH JOB |
| 18 | The arrangement evolving at a number of the resource management pilot sites , in which a doctor acting as clinical director takes on this role with assistance from a nurse manager and a business manager , indicates the likely direction of change . |
| 19 | Where consumers are rationed on the labour ( or any other ) market , the formation of expectations takes on additional significance . |
| 20 | The architectural design of the Tripartite Shrine takes on new layers of meaning once the column is seen as an idol or as an actual incarnation of a deity . |
| 21 | If a business takes on more debt , its calculations can be thrown out by two things : if the interest cost of servicing the debt rises by more than was expected ; and if the cash flow earned by the business falls by more than had been planned for . |
| 22 | The usage of ‘ race ’ during the September-October 1985 period took on new meanings , which had little if anything to do with the impact of racism as such , since the emphasis was on the cultural characteristics of the minority communities themselves . |
| 23 | The question of access to the US public utility market in areas such as transport took on new interest with Mr Clinton 's plan to increase investment in areas such as high-speed railways and other transit systems as part of his recovery plan . |
| 24 | He had n't thought about himself , but with Tom taking on another farm , a farm that would one day be his own responsibility , it was hardly likely he would have time to take care of Seb too . |
| 25 | Although Clive & Stokes took on one partner from Barker , Peter Bingham ( who had been personnel Director of Bowater ) , the strategy was not successful and in 1986 the connection with Barker was severed . |
| 26 | Last year Rover took on 30 apprentices at Swindon and this year the figure will be 64 . |
| 27 | The creation of the enterprise culture in deprived areas of the North and the ‘ inner cities ’ is fundamentally about the creation of jobs at lower wages than were previously viewed as acceptable and reducing entitlement to benefit and levels of benefit in order to increase the incentive to take on these jobs . |
| 28 | If the real wage rate has temporarily risen , as workers are supposed to believe , employers will have the incentive to take on fewer workers . |
| 29 | COLCHESTER player-manager Roy McDonough will watch from the sidelines as his team take on Norwegian tourists Nessegutten at Layer Road this evening in a friendly fixture ( kick-off 7.45 pm ) . |
| 30 | On the whole socialist feminists were suspicious of allowances on the grounds that they would undermine male wage-bargaining and preferred to argue , like Ada Nield Chew , for services in kind to support mothers in the ‘ drudgery ’ of child care ; Fabian women preferred direct payment to mothers in order to maintain their economic independence from their husbands and free them from the need to take on paid work which would distract them from their primary task of mothering ( Alexander , 1979 ) . |