Example sentences of "have take on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A consistent feature of unpaid caring , demonstrated by all the available detailed studies , is that once a particular relative has taken on the responsibility for the care of an elderly or handicapped person they get rather limited support , if any , from other relatives or friends . |
| 2 | The foregoing account confirms the idea implicit in the theoretical scheme which I sketched earlier : namely , that nationalism is an immensely powerful force , first , because it is sustained by a deep-rooted sense of belonging to a territorial and cultural community , and secondly , because this sense of belonging has become firmly attached to the nation state in a process of political development which is now several centuries old , and has taken on the character of a more or less sacrosanct and unalterable principle of political organization . |
| 3 | A major chain of small grocery shops has taken on the might of the big wholesalers in a battle over the right to sell newspapers . |
| 4 | Matthew A. has taken on the notion of drafting , of provisionality , better than the others . |
| 5 | Argument about rival therapies has taken on the passion previously given to theological debate . |
| 6 | For me the transcendent landscape has taken on the aspect of patterned fields , or small patches of flower beds . |
| 7 | For once a company has taken on the risks they are not easy to transfer . |
| 8 | With no qualifications and precious little experience , she has taken on the job of Princess of Wales and is turning it into a significant career — and at the same time has brought up two small boys . |
| 9 | The multitude of Madonnas for Italian worship in the Renaissance made this a fruitful theme for connoisseurship which has taken on the task of distinguishing authentic works from those by followers or copyists . |
| 10 | If some kind person could send us a copy I have some very keen would-be knitters who would be extremely grateful , not least myself who has taken on the task of teaching them . |
| 11 | The organization of women in the controlled zones varies considerably depending on the region : either one of the women 's organizations has taken on the task or there may be a women 's committee of the Popular Power Council . |
| 12 | Recently , Tina Benson , the captain 's sister , has taken on the role of marketing manager . |
| 13 | A penguin keeper whose own family has flown the nest has taken on the role of mother to one of her birds . |
| 14 | ‘ The father may have been violent , the woman might be involved with someone else who has taken on the role of father . |
| 15 | Christina warmed to her and was glad for the trouble she 'd taken on the Morris 's account . |
| 16 | The two sisters were both in their fifties , both ex-nurses , neither ever married ; they 'd taken on the restaurant as a late-life decision when their father had died and left them a shared inheritance . |
| 17 | ( This should not be taken to mean that such psychopathological trends could not appear in individuals before the coming of cultivation or delayed-return hunter-gathering , merely that they would have been much less common and could not have taken on the collective , cultural significance which they did in the Neolithic and subsequent epochs . ) |
| 18 | However , the payments were paid out regularly and if one were to apply the normal UK rules those payments would have taken on the form of income ( see Brodie 's Trust Deeds v IRC ( 1933 ) 17 TC 432 ; Jackson 's Trust Deeds v IRC ( 1942 ) 25 TC 13 and Postlethwaite v IRC ( 1963 ) 41 TC 224 ) . |
| 19 | Given half a chance she 'd have taken on the job of finding a soul-mate for Shannon with all the crusading zeal of a missionary , since she was blissfully convinced that true happiness could be found only in a strong relationship such as the one she had . |
| 20 | Having taken on the teachers and the police , he will now square up to fellow ministers and the voters . |
| 21 | having taken on the legacy |
| 22 | To have taken on the world in that state would have been political suicide . |
| 23 | Soviet society is inevitably becoming more technocratic and under the control of an administrative stratum which many outsiders believe to have taken on the characteristics of a new ruling class ( Hill , Dunmore and Dawisha 1981 , pp. 209–11 ) . |
| 24 | But there have been people so sunk in self-blame they 've taken on the guilt of their firm 's collapse — which really does have to be nonsense . |
| 25 | To help publicise the launch of the airline , Branson had taken on the services of Tony Brainsby , a man whose hyperventilated style of press-arousal on behalf of such clients as Paul McCartney had made him a small legend in the pop world . |
| 26 | By now , the household of The Kilns had taken on the shape which it was to maintain until well after the Second World War . |
| 27 | His face was grotesquely puffed and had taken on the colour of dark purple . |
| 28 | The London buses by this time had taken on the look of the more modern style and were being driven by diesel engines , also they were capable of carrying as many as fifty-six passengers . |
| 29 | Charles was avoiding marriage like the plague , and Henry had taken on the cloak of religion . |
| 30 | Sarah 's voice had taken on the tone of an interrogation . |