Example sentences of "take on [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Churchill Livingstone takes on exclusive European distribution of selected titles from Paradigm Books from January . |
| 2 | IF EVERY QUALIFIED TEACHER WOULD TAKE ON ONE NEW CLASS , ALL OUR TROUBLES WOULD BE OVER ! |
| 3 | This is again due to arterial spasm and deoxygenated ( blue blood ) pooling in the veins and making them take on this abnormal hue . |
| 4 | Burke unequivocally rejected any idea of a " mandate " or " instructions " from his constituents as to how he should vote or what line he should take on any particular issue as " things utterly unknown to the laws of this land " , reflecting a misconception of " the whole order and tenor of our constitution " . |
| 5 | For headteachers there are opportunities , but also considerable anxieties , involved in taking on greater financial control of the school budget , and these are bound to radiate throughout the school . |
| 6 | ‘ It must be hard on her taking on all this responsibility . ’ |
| 7 | The Iraqi air force last week announced it would attack with Exocet missiles any ship taking on Iranian crude oil . |
| 8 | We must not do anything to discourage people from taking on that caring role . |
| 9 | And that was only about a minute of the game gone and I dare say er Ian whose place he 's taking on that left-hand side would have relished that kind of opportunity . |
| 10 | Well , where I currently am is is saying that we should seek to revue the Commission 's overall boundaries with a view to us taking on some extra work , and that meanwhile we should suspend further recruitment . |
| 11 | Where others might have been satisfied just to become editor of The Times , he took on one public job after another . |
| 12 | There was never owt to be done with Jake when he took on that wild-eyed look . ’ |
| 13 | In doing so , she also shows how a literary education took on this curious status in India before the state took any role in popular education in England and before literary studies had been institutionalized as ‘ English ’ . |
| 14 | What actually happened was that a colleague of mine , Dave Walton and I , got together to look at a rather esoteric aspect of molecular motion , thinking of making molecules which were very , very long and had very simple structure but could have perhaps erm very complicated what we call dynamic motion , but there was some very good chemistry involved and we erm put this project together for the Sussex Chemistry Bithesis programme , and erm the student who took on this particular project , Alexander , spent two years learning how to do the synthesis and developed a lot of ability in this area ; he also learned how to do the spectroscopic experiments and studied the analysis of molecular motion , and he was able to do this on top of the course work that he did , and in fact this particular project and Alexander , who did the work himself , and the subsequent exciting sort of repercussions of the project have all made me a rather firm believer in the course here , and that in fact undergraduates can do research and also that it 's a very good training for the future . |
| 15 | Later , she gave up the childminding and took on some secretarial work in the mornings which still allowed her to continue with her lunch-time job . |
| 16 | It is little wonder then that social research is equated with ‘ clap trap ’ in police magazines , for they aim to support the beliefs of those who have taken on this unconscious cosmology , and for whom as Bourdieu ( ibid. ) indicates , such challenges would defy ‘ the most natural manifestations of submission to the established order [ and abolish ] lateral possibilities ’ . |
| 17 | Feminist psychologists have taken on this feminist interest in sexuality . |
| 18 | As well as bringing on the new foal , Margaret has taken on another exciting challenge . |
| 19 | is I 've taken on another short course . |
| 20 | By comparing the measurements taken on fresh dissected tissue with those taken on an intact body , it is possible to demonstrate the important influence that the body 's neuro-electric actions have on the recovery mechanism . |
| 21 | If the bonding between nickel and the water ligands is regarded as having some covalent character , then the lone pairs of the water molecules are in bonding levels , and two of the metal d orbitals take on some anti-bonding character . |
| 22 | Nursing colleagues who take on this important role are known as associate nurses . |
| 23 | Industrial action is rare in charities , but may increase as they take on more local authority functions and employees ' interests become similar to those of council workers . |
| 24 | No organisation could expand as quickly as the new organisation that is to be set up is apparently expected to expand to take on all this work . |
| 25 | His counterparty could be someone who is prepared to take on that extra risk by selling a future or writing a call option . |
| 26 | She felt this would make her ‘ singled out ’ , so she preferred to take on similar clerical work doing the accounts for her father 's farming business . |
| 27 | It is not clear whether or not Harris thinks that children of 10 should be obliged to take on full political status whether or not they want to , but Holt clearly does not . |
| 28 | In Britain , the tight financial regime imposed on local councils and the reluctance of central government to take on any new expenditure makes it necessary to seek funds from the private sector . |
| 29 | One might well ask why the violinist Felice Giardini should have wished to take on this administrative burden , celebrated as he was as one of the principal virtuosos in London 's concert life . |
| 30 | Emlyn had some difficulty in persuading Rank and the producers , Alexander Korda and Anatole de Grunwald , to take on this new boy . |