Example sentences of "[conj] taking on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Re-decorating one bedroom should be fun and is much less of a task than taking on a whole house . |
| 2 | Banishing an old life and taking on a new life and character when the time seemed ripe was a very Indian thing to do . |
| 3 | In other cases he remains cut off , although he may then recover well enough physically and mentally to start a new life , perhaps even setting up home with someone else and taking on a new job . |
| 4 | Austerity was Britain 's peculiar reward for surviving World War II unbeaten at the cost of selling her foreign assets and taking on a crippling load of debt to the United States . |
| 5 | A younger person marrying and taking on a teenage family may know very little about adolescents . |
| 6 | Wolfgang took the advice of his Mannheim friends — who professed themselves as disappointed as he on his lack of success — and decided to stay on until the spring , moving to cheaper lodgings and taking on a few pupils to earn money . |
| 7 | Confusion sometimes arises over the use of the words ‘ book ’ and ‘ volume ’ , normally regarded as almost interchangeable , but taking on a special meaning , often indicated by the title-page , when applied to the make-up of a complete work . |
| 8 | There will nearly always be problems when taking on a rescued dog , but with determination and good will on both sides , there are very few that ca n't be solved . |
| 9 | Many clients saw headhunters as taking on the dirty work , and many candidates obviously shared this view . |