Example sentences of "[verb] take on the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For once a company has taken on the risks they are not easy to transfer . |
| 2 | As a result , people in these institutions quickly came to take on the roles and goals which these institutions required for their survival . |
| 3 | You were going to take on the ones we had last time . |
| 4 | The team elected by Labour members yesterday bore some resemblance to the team the public might elect to take on the Tories . |
| 5 | Having taken on the teachers and the police , he will now square up to fellow ministers and the voters . |
| 6 | At the same time , we will be paying special attention to the acquisition of management skills , providing specific training courses to develop in our trainees the confidence and resourcefulness needed to take on the responsibilities of running a busy section . |
| 7 | Soviet society is inevitably becoming more technocratic and under the control of an administrative stratum which many outsiders believe to have taken on the characteristics of a new ruling class ( Hill , Dunmore and Dawisha 1981 , pp. 209–11 ) . |
| 8 | On Oct. 3 four of the eight members of the Collective State Presidency ( representing the republics of Serbia and Montenegro , and the autonomous provinces of Vojvodina and Kosovo within Serbia ) voted to take on the powers of the Yugoslav Assembly because they were " in conditions of an immediate danger of war " . |
| 9 | Armed with their newest inventions ( a super-duper jeep and hi-tech helicopter ) they vow to take on the forces of evil and blast their way to freedom — so get blasting ! |
| 10 | More than 1,600 names — the people whose personal wealth is pledged to meeting insurance claims — lost money when they found themselves having to meet huge bills for asbestosis and pollution claims after Mr Outhwaite agreed to take on the risks from other Lloyd 's syndicates in 1982 . |
| 11 | Not that I regretted taking on the responsibilities , but it meant shelving any dreams I 'd had . ’ |
| 12 | To help publicise the launch of the airline , Branson had taken on the services of Tony Brainsby , a man whose hyperventilated style of press-arousal on behalf of such clients as Paul McCartney had made him a small legend in the pop world . |
| 13 | Relatives had taken on the boys of her family but did not want the responsibility and lower wages of the girls . |
| 14 | On April 4 President Özal announced that Turkey had admitted 100,000 Kurdish refugees , reversing its previous decision to close its borders ( which it had taken on the grounds that it had neither the infra-structure nor the resources to cope with the flood of Kurdish refugees ) . |
| 15 | In these circumstances they are more able to realise their true ideological potential , which seems to mean taking on the characteristics of the most rapacious forms of capitalist entrepreneurship . |
| 16 | 120 golfers have taken on the challenges that Woburn has to offer . |