Example sentences of "to take on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or , if they do not , they have to take on trust the material that the New Historicist scholar-critic hands them . |
| 2 | It is the latter statement which you have to take on trust . |
| 3 | The control room , although just workable , is very cramped ( especially as it has had to take on committee work ) . |
| 4 | It is an attempt to conform to a divine reality and standard that the soul can not ‘ see ’ at this early stage but which she has to take on faith . |
| 5 | But presumably that balance is n't something that 's encouraged either by the discipline of the job , or by a culture that assumes that men do n't have to take on responsibility for those things because women do . |
| 6 | Organisations with established DP departments require staff who are able to take on software " development " work ( modifying , adding to , or creating new software systems ) as required , but who , in the interim , will also undertake " maintenance " work ( keeping the system running ) . |
| 7 | Before we begin , we need to take on board the mystery , a word which will follow us through the five sessions . |
| 8 | In a wonderful way that is a thrilling thing to take on board . |
| 9 | We have had no choice but to take on board a sexuality which is defined in terms of its difference from the male , and therefore mystified ; which has been derived from biology and based around reproduction . |
| 10 | They have tried to take on board Ayer 's claim that theological language is meaningless , but have made of this meaninglessness a kind of superior divine logic . |
| 11 | The ‘ cities of inner despair ’ were conceived as the breeding ground for disorderly protest , and however hard the Government tried to break the causal link between the two , it was forced to take on board the need to restore order not only through the police but through promises of help for the inner cities . |
| 12 | Gedge recognises that the group are a novel proposition for label to take on board . |
| 13 | Arts groups have only just begun to take on board the fact that they have to be much more proactive if they are to tap the creativity of people who may be confined to their homes or only get out to day centres with help . |
| 14 | What sensible young thirteen-and-a-half-year-old would wish to take on board all those terrible sins like gluttony , cheating and the first inklings of immoral thoughts ? |
| 15 | They had much goods for Gairloch , and not a little to take on board . |
| 16 | To begin with I found it almost too much to take on board , but it was all extremely thought-provoking and I had to make a decision to put my heart into it or not to bother at all ; it would have been pointless just to dip into it now and again . |
| 17 | The Good Wood Guide seal of approval is a voluntary labelling system that manufacturers are encouraged to take on board if they can honestly say that they use wood from sustainable sources — so look for the seal of approval . |
| 18 | Chapter 7 , which is written by Sara Ladbury and Clive Mira-Smith , is a piece of work by the Cities Research Unit , a private consultant , and accordingly reflects the style and the medium in which it is rooted , whilst similarly Jon Dawson and Michael Parkinson 's chapter is written from a perspective that is able to take on board their own personal involvement with the Merseyside Development Corporation . |
| 19 | In particular it has attempted to take on board community aspirations and local authority plans rather than ride roughshod over local wishes . |
| 20 | She might , however , reach the conclusion which Hapgood finds it hard to take on board — that espionage is a game best understood and appreciated by small boys . |
| 21 | They did not have to take on board the Jewish ceremonial Law . |
| 22 | Our hypothetical cavedwellers with their universal explanation that ‘ the gods did it ’ are not too far separated from the modem Westerner who believes that the Soviet Union is an unalleviatedly ‘ evil empire ’ or that Blacks are inferior to Whites : all three explanations are easy to take on board , they are much simpler than the arguments put forward by the people who disagree with them , and , once accepted , they are clung to with a limpet-like grip . |
| 23 | The organization fostered and developed such myths because they were then freed from having to take on board the understandings and implications of carrying out the work . |
| 24 | True , there were no Sex Pistols here , not even a Housemartins if the truth be known , but at least the papers were beginning to take on board a youth culture . |
| 25 | The business is estimated to be doing about $200m a year , and a key attraction for the Cupertino company is that Texas sells almost exclusively through resellers , and Hewlett-Packard sees big potential in mobilising that army to take on board its own computer products as well . |
| 26 | As well as its apparent willingness to take on board proven independent software technologies , the company is also making its own products available on other platforms . |
| 27 | ‘ We ca n't ignore the fact that there has been an overproduction of titles , and this is a lesson everyone is having to take on board , ’ she said . |
| 28 | Another more principled objection may also be levelled at lawyers reluctance to take on board economic thinking . |
| 29 | That they are prepared to take on board such a past , one must hold in awe . |
| 30 | And maybe that is part of real life , maybe that is a fact of life that women have to take on board , but perhaps men have to take it on board a bit more as well . |