Example sentences of "[coord] take on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , interviewers are often hesitant to broach the question of one partner wishing to resign , so at interview we raise the issue and offer reassurance that should it ever occur the remaining partner would either also resign or take on the post full time . |
| 2 | It was submitted that an owner can not turn his back on his property because when he purchases and takes on the responsibility of letting , he knows the property will in the course of time deteriorate . |
| 3 | Overwhelmed , he retreated to London , eventually setting up his own label in 1967 and taking on the design directorship for Kangol hats and berets in 1981 . |
| 4 | ‘ If it had n't been for her courage and fortitude in going out there and taking on the role of investigator , private detective and motivator , those files would still be closed and the police would just have an unsolved case of a missing person . ’ |
| 5 | My separatist friends said I was selling out , and taking on the role of mother was just doing what the patriarchy had trained me for . |
| 6 | In the end , Naughtie pulled rank , and took on the task himself . |
| 7 | It was whilst working my way through this , often writing in the column headings for several pages in advance to give myself the illusion that I had completed more than I actually had , that two important suspicions that had lain dormant for some time rose up and took on the aspect of horribly credible hypotheses . |
| 8 | Steve Lewis , who won a Welsh Schools cap from Albertillery GS at scrum-half and went on to gain an Oxford Blue in 1973 and play for Ebbw Vale and Bath , was approached and took on the job last summer . |
| 9 | He used ceremonial occasions to launch scathing attacks on conservatives and took on the role of the spokesman of all Hungarians , inside and outside the country . |
| 10 | Lying in bed at night , she would remind herself that in only a few months ' time she would be his , and would have assumed his name and taken on the position of head of his household . |
| 11 | ‘ We think these blackbirds must have lost their brood and taken on the bluetit chicks as substitutes . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I would have had to have come to some arrangement with Janice — separate houses , separate lives — and taken on the job of looking after Kirsty myself , even if it had meant giving up my job . ’ |
| 13 | On Jan. 8 he had attempted to bolster his support amongst other LDP factions by persuading Shin Kanemaru , 77 , the leader of the largest faction and arguably the most influential figure within the LDP , to become vice-president of the party and to take on the responsibility of co-ordinating its internal affairs . |
| 14 | Their limited aim was to support the efforts of the law against Communism and to take on the job themselves where those efforts were inadequate . |
| 15 | If I had the courage to grow out my hair and take on the streets without frill or face paint , bangles or heels and all such accessories of fear and vanity , then I would be seen far less and see much more . |
| 16 | He had been ready to defy the conventions and take on the world — and win ! he thought . |
| 17 | McIver ( 1987 ) describes that in retailing customers were persuaded to forgo the service provided by the friendly corner store and take on the labour of pushing trolleys around supermarkets because they made gains through cheaper prices and a wider choice of goods . |
| 18 | A company acted reasonably in dismissing its managing director after discovering that , along with another manager , he was planning to set up in competition with the company and take on the business of its best customer ( p 114 ) . |
| 19 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal has decided that a company acted reasonably in dismissing its managing director after discovering that , along with another manager , he was planning to set up in competition with the company and take on the business of its best customer ( see Marshall v Industrial Systems and Control Ltd [ 1992 ] IRLR 294 ) . |
| 20 | There was nothing left now , but to grow old , but to grow old and take on the burden of her mother growing even older . |
| 21 | If that person has no real exposure as a concomitant of trading activity but takes on the risk as a means of generating income , he is referred to as a " speculator " . |
| 22 | It had been the Royal Air Force base in the province since the early part of the century , but took on the role of Ulster 's principal airport when the Nutt 's Corner aerodrome was handed over . |
| 23 | With wrestling , the ‘ opponents ’ are not simply themselves but taking on the parts of ‘ good ’ and ‘ evil ’ in a ritual that has a context much larger than the particular match . |