Example sentences of "have take on the [noun sg] " 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 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Recently , Tina Benson , the captain 's sister , has taken on the role of marketing manager .
12 A penguin keeper whose own family has flown the nest has taken on the role of mother to one of her birds .
13 ‘ The father may have been violent , the woman might be involved with someone else who has taken on the role of father .
14 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 .
15 ( 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 . )
16 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 ) .
17 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 .
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19 To have taken on the world in that state would have been political suicide .
20 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 .
21 By now , the household of The Kilns had taken on the shape which it was to maintain until well after the Second World War .
22 His face was grotesquely puffed and had taken on the colour of dark purple .
23 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 .
24 Charles was avoiding marriage like the plague , and Henry had taken on the cloak of religion .
25 Sarah 's voice had taken on the tone of an interrogation .
26 His face had taken on the expression of imbecile beatitude the religious sometimes adopt .
27 The respect afforded him in England had partly to do with the manner in which he had taken on the mantle of English culture ; in the absence of any figure with equivalent influence , he was eventually to be invested with an almost shamanistic authority .
28 She talked as if she had taken on the mantle of Philip Marlowe , a female arch sleuth for whom the teeming underworld held no secrets .
29 It is estimated that around two-fifths of the settlement will be needed to pay off the syndicate 's American lawyers ( who had taken on the case on a " no win , no pay " basis ) .
30 No-one cared how long we had taken on the route .
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