Example sentences of "take on the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | However , by delegating authority to subordinates , the superior takes on the extra tasks of calling the subordinates to account for their decisions and performance , and also of coordinating the efforts of different subordinates . |
2 | When the character of Harlequin , the Comic Lover , had become familiar in England he was quickly promoted to lead the pantomimes ; nowhere in ballet does he rise to more commanding heights than as Captain Belaye in Cranko , s Pineapple Poll , where he takes on the superior airs and manners of the British Navy and becomes the apple of every girl 's eye . |
3 | The disease causes its victims to waste away and take on the sharp outlines of a statue with the shiny , sickly pallid hue of marble as the disease destroys them . |
4 | Under the name DNV Technica , the new company will take on the current operations of the Technica Group and the risk and reliability services of DNV . |
5 | Where this occurs in hard corals without the formulation of dividing walls the colony can , eventually , take on the convoluted patterns characterised by brain coral colonies . |
6 | An all-star field will take part in tonight 's Calor Gas Grand Prix in Ballymena town centre with riders from England , Scotland , Wales and the south taking on the local stars . |
7 | Trees are preparing for winter and their leaves are taking on the beautiful colours of autumn . |
8 | ‘ I enjoy taking on the big battalions , ’ he says . |
9 | I walked silently , testing every step I took on the rough paths , just as I had used to walk with my mother in the woods near Štanjel . |
10 | Like the rest , the ex-Croydon cars took on the visible signs of war , headlamp masks , white collision fenders and protective netting on the windows . |
11 | Not content with beating seven bells out of the test team at Lords The Aussies took on the Combined Universities in a three day game today and almost strangled it at birth . |
12 | Torres also took on the Foreign Affairs portfolio , Vice-Adml. ( retd ) Raúl Sánchez Sotomayor being unexpectedly dropped from the Cabinet . |
13 | When I took on the marine operations every ship had a fiftyfour man crew and it seemed to me that this was inefficient , so I did a trip on a ship and I came back quite convinced you could actually run a ship with twenty-one men . |
14 | Thus , playing to the Germans ' appeal for order , these two brave Frenchmen secured for the trade a buffer in the form of the CIVC which took on the day-to-day unpleasantries of dealing with an alien administration . |
15 | The game boys who took on the big boys , and won , |
16 | Hitler had taken on the mysterious Soviets , but why had he chosen to invade Russia and not the British Isles ? |
17 | They asked the individual chief officers to prepare reports to the committees on action that could be taken on the detailed recommendations of Friends of the Earth . |
18 | What Butthole Surfers have done , what made and makes them so crucial , is that they 've taken on the sonic possibilities bequeathed still unexplored and underdeveloped by acid rock but have jettisoned many of the disabling attitudes that originally trammelled that music — sophistication , expertise , the counter-cultural impulse to edify . |
19 | In his day he has taken on the big guns of industry , commercialised culture and of whole countries ( who can easily forget his devastating portrait of Mrs Thatcher and the fawning Saatchi brothers ? ) . |
20 | Today Wales B take on the shaken Aussies in Cardiff — and Davies does n't rule out another shock Welsh win . |
21 | I should be grateful if you would let me know what action you take on the above matters . |
22 | If you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried . ’ |
23 | But I do n't worry about being a loser — if you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried |
24 | Practically , it means that students have to become used to expressing a point of view and exposing it to the critical evaluation of their peers , and in this way take on the ethical demands of rationality . |
25 | In the case of Russia , revisionist research has underlined the manner in which the specific nature of the tsarist regime conditioned the decision to take on the Central Powers . |
26 | At first , he appeared to have no immediate plans to take on the armed forces . |
27 | Jesus had come to Jerusalem , the capital of Judaism to take on the religious authorities and at this point in time in this Gospel it looks like he 's lost , gon na be dead in a couple of days . |
28 | Production is being doubled from 300 to 600 cars a week to meet the growing demand and Rover needs the extra staff to take on the extra shifts . |
29 | Gadebridge probably began life as a small farm , but from Period 4 , during the third century , it began to take on the additional characteristics , even to the extent of a gatehouse , or porter 's lodge . |
30 | Their position was well summed up by the Carers National Association , which has stated that the current rules could have ’ disastrous consequences ’ for the family and friends of the claimant who may have moved into the home to take on the caring responsibilities . |