Example sentences of "[vb mod] take on the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Charing Cross — should take on the relocated Royal Brompton and Royal Marsden hospitals |
2 | If she can fight off that medication , she 'll take on the whole world . ’ |
3 | Not a happy marriage , and not one that could take on the extra burden of a weeping widowed friend . |
4 | Either way , it was asserted , the cost would approach £350 million and the whole project could take on the same proportions as providing London with its third airport . |
5 | Banknote paper was then prepared with a colouring agent made from cobalt , silex , salt and potash : if you set light to a bundle of money , the cinder would take on the extraordinary tint that Musgrave saw on the Caen dockside . |
6 | Simultaneously , the His15 and Arg17 side chains of HPr would separate and the active centre would take on the strained open conformation ( Fig. 2 a ) , ready for the next cycle ; formation of hydrogen bonds to His15 and Arg17 would help to stabilize the open conformation and the protein would be in an overall energy minimum . |
7 | ’ I wish someone else would take on the major record companies , but nobody does , and I 'm not prepared to sit back and watch them stifle British music . |
8 | He will take on the new post of Communications Manager , ‘ leading and co-ordinating all aspects of our public relations ’ , according to Sotheby 's Chairman Lord Gowrie . |
9 | The boy 's body will take on the squarer , more muscular appearance of manhood . |
10 | Experiments in pickling different alloys of copper and zinc have shown that only alloys with between 2 and 10 per cent of copper in the zinc will take on the black patina , and the silver and brass inlays are unaffected by the pickling solution . |
11 | Under the name DNV Technica , the new company will take on the current operations of the Technica Group and the risk and reliability services of DNV . |
12 | That assumption allows us to retrace and anticipate , as it were , the steps a statesman — past , present , or future — has taken or will take on the political scene . |
13 | Later today the Argentinian will take on the third seed , Conchita Martinez of Spain , who beat Sabatini 's compatriot Patricia Tarabini in the quarter-final . |
14 | The staff appraisal interviews were conducted by the Head and the Deputy Head ( Staff ) , who claimed that the main benefits were : a report on individual teachers , agreed with them , on their personal file ( to which the Head added ‘ they 're helping to write their own references ’ ) , and clarification for the Senior Management Team as to what INSET actions they ought to take on the individual teacher 's behalf . |
15 | embed sentences in relations to reality in such a way that they can take on the general pragmatic functions of representation , expression and establishing interpersonal relations . |