Example sentences of "[noun pl] take on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very few husbands took on any household chores . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Where consumers are rationed on the labour ( or any other ) market , the formation of expectations takes on additional significance . |
| 5 | The Mariners take on Third Division Halifax Town at College Road next Saturday in a first round tie which the Crosby side are quietly confident of winning . |
| 6 | The Mariners take on Third Division Halifax Town at College Road next Saturday in a first round tie which the Crosby side are quietly confident of winning . |
| 7 | Males taking on all roles in the home creates healthy role models . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | John , playing from Great Aycliffe , goes through to the area finals of the national championships to take on international Cliff Simpson ( Hartlepool ) on a neutral venue . |
| 10 | But the government is committed to the notion of care by the community and wants families to take on greater responsibilities . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Debt is cheaper than equity , since investors take on less risk when buying it . |
| 13 | Only if the social costs of such a strategy , in terms of mental illness , vandalism , etc. , were deemed to be high enough , might it be economically efficient to subsidise firms to take on such labour . |
| 14 | In the context of giant industries such as electricity supply the questions take on considerable significance . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It takes a hard heart not to get involved in at least some of the games and sports on offer — especially when everything 's free — and even aerobics taken on greater appeal when there 's an inviting pool to plunge into to cool down . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Ensuring that private practitioners take on preventive activities and promote healthy behaviour by their patients requires a substantial move away from a strictly market led approach . |
| 20 | A scheme the weekly earnings disregard from £15 for a man and dependent wife to £60 a week for six months , to encourage the over-50s to take on part-time work . |
| 21 | Bearing all these factors in mind , the demonstration that patients in intensive care show abnormal daily rhythms , and that these abnormalities take on many forms , is not surprising . |
| 22 | These features take on particular interest when combined with the findings of Squire ( 1964 ) whose study of readers not only found evidence of a considerable need on the part of adolescent readers for association and empathy with the characters in a work of fiction , but also a clear correlation between emotional involvement with a story and the formulation of literary judgment . |
| 23 | Modernism , the tip of whose iceberg is visible by the mid-nineteenth century , but whose social conditions of existence are pervasive only from the end of that century , is an end point of this differentiation , a point at which spheres take on full autonomy . |
| 24 | TOURISM businesses are bucking the recession with two west Suffolk employers taking on more staff and one of them , a hotel , reporting its busiest February for 20 years . |
| 25 | Those located at holiday resorts took on extra staff to deal with the increased demand brought about by an influx of summer visitors . |
| 26 | Naturalists took on enormous workloads , driving themselves to the limit both physically and mentally . |
| 27 | At the same time , firms not taking part in takeovers took on more debt , either gradually or in so-called ‘ leveraged recapitalisations ’ — in effect self-takeovers in which firms ' existing shareholders swapped some of their equity into debt . |
| 28 | An excessively elevated sense of standards means that there are difficulties about English Departments taking on overseas research students in numbers sufficient to help the university in its financial difficulties . |
| 29 | Decisions taken on these issues were to have a lasting effect on the geographical deployment of full-time staff . |
| 30 | When MediaStar was formed from the Colman media department at the end of 1989 , it was the first of the hybrid media departments to take on independent buying work . |