Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to take on 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 ‘ 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 . ’
4 It is even possible to take on the world .
5 Like many doctors still , scientists find it almost impossible to take on the notion of psychic energy .
6 The team manager , who had run the campaign against Meyer in 1989 , appears to have been initially reluctant to take on the task .
7 Yet these farmers had usually been placed in this situation because there was no one else willing to take on the task .
8 The same is true for France , Australia and anyone else willing to take on the Springboks .
9 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 .
10 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 .
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