Example sentences of "to take on an " in BNC.
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| 1 | An agent looking at a student actor makes a reasonable commercial judgement ; he considers whether a decision to take on an actor will be financially justified . |
| 2 | This took the form of a recommendation to a university willing to take on an inspector , who often had none of the usual qualifications . |
| 3 | As an appetiser to the spectacle approaching , the rocks begin to take on an unusually geometric shape , until on turning the jagged headland of Part na Spanaigh , the astonishing site of 40,000 mostly hexagonal stone columns comes into view . |
| 4 | Consequently many managers are unwilling to take on an ‘ unemployed ’ worker , however tempting their offer of several days ' service per week , as they can not cope with the high turnover of staff that ensues . |
| 5 | What firm is going to take on an untrained man in his forties at a time when it is being forced to lay off people who have been with their business for years ? |
| 6 | The last thing an executive search consultant wants to do is to take on an assignment which is not achievable and which he or she can not complete . |
| 7 | Since the invisibility of women is not confined to particular disciplines , feminism has tended to take on an interdisciplinary approach . |
| 8 | The choice indicates how much the state is willing to take on an active role of managing national resources for greater international competitiveness , and in what form . |
| 9 | From the fact that it was chosen by lot , with the further provision that no one might serve on it more than two years in his life , it is clear that the Athenians of the fifth and fourth centuries intended that the council should have no chance of developing a corporate sense , which would enable it to take on an independent life , and wished it to be merely a fair sample of the Athenian people , whose views would naturally coincide with those of the people . |
| 10 | Within four months of his coming , numbers had risen to 27 ; within seven , there were 53 , and he was authorized to take on an assistant from September . |
| 11 | It ultimately failed and the shipowners emerged victorious , offering only to take on an extra man on each ship to reduce unemployment . |
| 12 | Norwich agreed to take on an extra twelve staff and to clear the backlog of applications . |
| 13 | The move was seen as preparation for ECOMOG to take on an offensive rather than merely a peacekeeping role . |
| 14 | For Joshua , at sixty-two , and suffering from a bad leg , distances had begun to take on an extraordinary significance . |
| 15 | As the creatures soared up and down , their laughter began to take on an eerie and mournful tone . |