Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to take [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was felt that small companies would be less willing to take on the responsibilities of nuclear power plants . |
| 2 | I wondered why McIllvanney had not told me that Rickie and Robin-Anne Crowninshield were drug addicts , then I realised that McIllvanney would not have told me anything that might have risked my acceptance of the charter , but now that I had learned that the twins had such a severe drug problem I was even less keen to take on the job . |
| 3 | GORDON TAYLOR , the players ' union secretary , yesterday confirmed that he is still prepared to take up the post of chief executive of the Football League -despite a cold-shoulder from the League 's management committee and the reluctance of the Professional Footballers ' Association to release him . |
| 4 | ‘ Mr Jones , I 'm honoured that you should choose me , but I do feel there are others far more suited to take on the responsibility , people who 've worked in radio far longer than I have . ’ |
| 5 | Surprisingly the men were always delighted to take up the offer . |
| 6 | Social services personnel were also quick to take up the theme . |
| 7 | It is even possible to take on the world . |
| 8 | Professional restorers , art historians and journalists equipped with variable degrees of real technical expertise are currently all equally ready to take up the cudgels in causes of this kind . |
| 9 | Like many doctors still , scientists find it almost impossible to take on the notion of psychic energy . |
| 10 | The team manager , who had run the campaign against Meyer in 1989 , appears to have been initially reluctant to take on the task . |
| 11 | In a news conference on Nov. 9 , however , the Philippine spokesman Rafael M. Alunan appeared to indicate a softening of the government 's stance by differentiating for the first time between " sovereign control " and " operational control " , noting that Philippine personnel would not be fully ready to take over the bases by 1991 and that US personnel would be needed to operate them under Philippine sovereignty for a transitional period . |
| 12 | Yet these farmers had usually been placed in this situation because there was no one else willing to take on the task . |
| 13 | The same is true for France , Australia and anyone else willing to take on the Springboks . |
| 14 | If I had had qualifications I should not have been able to use them legally , and I should have been too hoity-toity to take on the sort of me-nial , unregulated work available . |
| 15 | This , however , proved to be too provocative a move : Castiella was refused agrément and was therefore unable to take up the London posting . |
| 16 | The leather baggage and glass cosmetic pots of the day were too heavy to take on the plane but she managed to find lighter substitutes and so became a pioneer of lightweight luggage , as well as a pioneer female passenger . |
| 17 | Esmé Collins , I read , was a well-known Brighton portrait photographer , one of the very first to take up the production of cinema films in eighteen ninety-six . |
| 18 | The Israeli government has been agonisingly slow to take up the challenge , although it has calculated that US$3 billion will be needed over three years for housing , job creation and other aspects of large-scale immigrant absorption . |