Example sentences of "[verb] take on [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin Hardwidge , the General Secretary , left in April and Stuart Waddington has taken on that role . |
| 2 | Visa records do not yet appear to have long-term reusable value , whereas 20th Century-Fox 's Movietone film has taken on such value . |
| 3 | It has always been a busy committee but especially so in the last year or two , not least because it has taken on more responsibility . |
| 4 | As a result , he has taken on more staff in the region . |
| 5 | And er we 're delighted to ha that you want to take on this task . |
| 6 | And ask them to take that on board , because I do n't really see why we should be expected to take on both factors . |
| 7 | The status of the second level nurse has troubled the profession for years , not least because they have been depended on as the mainstay of practical bedside nursing , while being expected to take on more responsibility than their training prepared them for . |
| 8 | It is in nobody 's interest for consumers to supply false information when seeking credit , or to try to take on more credit than they can manage . ’ |
| 9 | In many ways I wish we 'd taken on that girl now who we saw right at the very beginning with |
| 10 | Charge cards companies will not be looking to take on those customers with lower incomes who do not want to pay , or find it difficulty in paying , high credit-card interest rates . |
| 11 | Her ability to change form is illustrated in the quotation which opened this chapter , where Jung describes how his mother seemed to take on another shape and quality at night . |
| 12 | Firms decline to take on more labour because the effective demand for their goods is deficient . |
| 13 | All six degrees of freedom are seen to take on some zone of possible position or angle . |
| 14 | Is there a good ideas person out there who would like to take on this job ? ? ? |
| 15 | She was n't going to take on more trouble … there was enough of her own . |
| 16 | No one seems to have asked whether the Staff College could have taken on this job , but then again such anti-intellectualism is apparent even in the Bramshill Scholars ' Association . |
| 17 | I am now part of a small multi-cultural group which has been asked to take on this task . |
| 18 | If we do take on such students what about improved links with hospital and psychiatric services ? |
| 19 | The new breed of super heroes are set to wrestle the macho crown from the champions of the World Wrestling Federation even BEFORE they start taking on all comers in telly 's toughest endurance test next month . |
| 20 | We have to mean business , and this means taking on those people who , as a matter of business and commerce , profit from the exploitation of animals whether that exploitation takes place in the circus , the zoo , the slaughterhouse , or the trade in exotic species or so-called ‘ food animals ’ . |
| 21 | The Prince of Wales is president of my organisation , Scottish Business in the Community , and ever since he agreed to take on that role he as dedicated a large amount of time to helping us , and in turn , helping communities , not because it 's it 's fashionable because he really believes in it and he wants to do hard work on our behalf and on the countrys ' behalf . |
| 22 | The final straw , as it were , came when we were back home : none of the photographs we had taken on that day came out . |
| 23 | She said , " Philip , I know that if you had taken on this job on a business basis you would have had to charge hundreds . |
| 24 | One reason why the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem was so important for Wittgenstein was because he could not dissolve it without revising the view he had taken on this point when he wrote the Tractatus . |
| 25 | HEIs have been tempted to take on more research than perhaps they should have done . |
| 26 | The first ( firm A ) is a levered firm and the second ( firm B ) is an unlevered firm which decides to take on some leverage by issuing a bond . |
| 27 | It found that 40 per cent of companies , mainly in the retail and financial sectors , intended taking on more staff in the next six months . |
| 28 | Individual firms have taken on more security staff , but as yet there is little co-operation among companies on improving security outside their buildings , which is where bombs are most likely to be . |
| 29 | There are two trusts in my constituency that offer improved patient care and have taken on more staff . |
| 30 | That 's why I have taken on this job ( and for my sins ! ) . |