Example sentences of "[noun] take on [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | The front doors were almost bare of paint and shadows cast by the gas flame took on weird shapes . |
| 3 | Suddenly the one-off singles deal took on lengthier proportions and a second single was chosen from the pack . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 … ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Last year Rover took on 30 apprentices at Swindon and this year the figure will be 64 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If the real wage rate has temporarily risen , as workers are supposed to believe , employers will have the incentive to take on fewer workers . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Hendry also possesses a greater range than Davis , who may be hamstrung by his reluctance to take on long pots . |
| 16 | The Kremlin therefore wanted to pursue competition short of armed conflict , and the mid-to-late 1950s saw the Cold War take on new dimensions and a truly global nature as Khruschev adapted to changed circumstances , proving ready , for example , to ally with groups in the emerging ‘ Third World ’ who opposed the capitalist and colonial West . |
| 17 | Together with the intricate and expressive ports de bras he allows his dancers ' feet , legs and body to take on different shapes and lines as the design unfolds to interpret the words . |
| 18 | But whilst the law and order debate ebbs and flows over the political terrain , there is a strategic need to establish a second front where radical criminology takes on corporate crimes and crimes of other powerful institutions and privileged people . |
| 19 | Increasingly the Scots were coming to feel that they had benefited little from the establishment of the new regime in 1689 , and as a result Jacobitism north of the border took on nationalistic overtones . |
| 20 | Males taking on all roles in the home creates healthy role models . |
| 21 | I notice that the Newcastle Journal has the headline ’ North-East bucks the trend with firms taking on more workers ’ , and I am sure that the hon. Member will be delighted that Vickers in his constituency , making the new tank , has excellent opportunities at home and export prospects abroad . |
| 22 | Actually , this might have been quite productive since therapy is supposed to be a microcosm of your relationships , with the therapist taking on multiple roles . |
| 23 | But the government is committed to the notion of care by the community and wants families to take on greater responsibilities . |
| 24 | The bulk of domiciliary care is already provided by families , but Mrs Thatcher has made it plain that she expects families to take on extra responsibilities , and this is also apparent in the White Paper on Caring for People . |
| 25 | It is likely that the Minoan sacral horns acquired these and possibly additional symbolic meanings , becoming a layered symbol , in much the same way that the Cross of Christ has been transformed in religious art to take on all sorts of new overtones . |
| 26 | In these circumstances , the familiar Renaissance claim that poetry teaches and delights takes on new implications , pleasure among readers is not only how their attention and co-option to the didactic intention is achieved . |
| 27 | The difference in the political context meant that the formulation and transmission of government objectives took on different forms and involved different actors in the two cases , most notably where the unions were concerned , as we shall see . |
| 28 | This factor is an important one if images of an area taken on different days are to be compared . |
| 29 | The scene is thus set for large-scale reductivist paraphrases , which in different ontological theories take on different forms , depending upon what kind of entities are regarded as basic . |
| 30 | Tory policies in the l980s stopped council-home building , forced up house prices and compelled people to take on huge mortgages just to get a home . |