Example sentences of "[adj] take on the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Back in America , Chaka Khan and Ce Ce Peniston offer very different takes on the role of the soul diva .
2 ‘ Mr Jones , I 'm honoured that you should choose me , but I do feel there are others far more suited to take on the responsibility , people who 've worked in radio far longer than I have . ’
3 These failures arose not only from Edward 's lack of adequate financial resources , but also from the effectiveness of Philip VI 's resistance and the reluctance of the English to take on the French in pitched battle , as the stand-off at Buironfosse showed .
4 and , er well I did say er are you married ? , no , will you be having any children ? , definitely not , I said well unless you 're prepared to take on the responsibility
5 By the time I got up the next morning , I had determined to sell the baker 's shop to the highest bidder unless Charlie Trumper were willing to take on the responsibility himself .
6 For example , the managing director of an engineering company in Sheffield offered an aircraft kit to a school willing to take on the construction task .
7 He seemed likely to be doing it for quite some time to come as , rather than actually having an election , it is more a case of finding someone willing to take on the job .
8 This might put pressures on the sons and it could well be that not all would feel able or willing to take on the task .
9 Yet these farmers had usually been placed in this situation because there was no one else willing to take on the task .
10 Good lines , fair acting , and a surprisingly fresh take on the monster movie
11 Like many doctors still , scientists find it almost impossible to take on the notion of psychic energy .
12 County councillors look set to take on the Government tomorrow , when they set a budget for the next year way above Whitehall limits .
13 It is often said that elderly people are glad to take on the role of grandparent or even great-grandparent .
14 If I had had qualifications I should not have been able to use them legally , and I should have been too hoity-toity to take on the sort of me-nial , unregulated work available .
15 Where the VAX System Manager is unwilling to take on the work of LIFESPAN Manager , but is also unwilling to allow other VMS users to have the privileges listed above , the best solution is a Captive Account .
16 We have discussed this possibility with the company and have been informed that they are unwilling to take on the operation on a commercial basis .
17 The latter may , for instance , feel that if he is regarded as competent to take on the task by himself he ought to be in charge of his own department and that the manager is intentionally blocking his promotion .
18 The leather baggage and glass cosmetic pots of the day were too heavy to take on the plane but she managed to find lighter substitutes and so became a pioneer of lightweight luggage , as well as a pioneer female passenger .
19 The team manager , who had run the campaign against Meyer in 1989 , appears to have been initially reluctant to take on the task .
20 GREG DOWNS is happy to take on the job of exorcist today .
21 Although the charge card industry says it will benefit from the move away from credit cards , it is unlikely to take on the mass of consumers who acquired a credit card in the Eighties .
22 The author of this missive was Patricia Hewitt , who seemed determined to take on the mantle of Sara Barker , a notorious fixer and manipulator from the Labour Party of the fifties .
23 It is even possible to take on the world .
24 The occasion will be a star-studded affair , a day when red joins with blue to take on the pride of Manchester .
25 When their businesses were booming , they could afford to pose as tough-talking entrepreneurs keen to take on the telephone companies .
26 I wondered why McIllvanney had not told me that Rickie and Robin-Anne Crowninshield were drug addicts , then I realised that McIllvanney would not have told me anything that might have risked my acceptance of the charter , but now that I had learned that the twins had such a severe drug problem I was even less keen to take on the job .
27 Dragging himself through the daily routine which gets him into his beige-toned synthetic fibres and out of his neo-neo house , he roars off in his Jag ( number plate , VIC 100 ) , fag in mouth , Carly Simon on cassette , ready to take on the world .
28 Perfectly groomed from head to toe and with all that assurance , she was ready to take on the world , Arlene thought with satisfaction , for she looked on Paula as her very own creation .
29 She felt refreshed and renewed , filled with such a healthy glow of well-being that she was ready to take on the world ; and Johnny Latimer with it .
30 When grandfather died the farmer had allowed my grandmother and her two sons , still in their teens , to stay on in the cottage because he did n't need a new grieve ; he had an unmarried son in the big farmhouse , ready to take on the job .
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