Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [vb pp] the task " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of their brevity , Japanese 36 CREATIVE WRITING students of poetry and religion are given the task of reading and writing haiku . |
| 2 | A slightly older child was given the task of colouring in a picture for part of her correspondence lessons . |
| 3 | Once placement is achieved the task of daily caring is passed almost entirely to the primary caregivers and the quality of care offered is essentially taken on trust . |
| 4 | For each proposal a group was given the task assembling all the arguments in favour of the development , while another , the reasons against . |
| 5 | One of the committees of the Parliamentary Council established in 1948 to draw up a new constitution was given the task of preparing a new electoral law . |
| 6 | It is no accident that the rise of science and technology and subsequently industrialisation and the process of wealth creation followed the acceptance of an explicitly Biblical view of the world in which manual work was not considered contemptible and in which man was delegated the task of managing the world 's resources for his benefit . |
| 7 | Each profession is given the task of translating its specialised services into a mixture of computer aids ' and do-it-yourself . |
| 8 | Dupont was assigned the task of conquering Andalusia with a corps composed mainly of conscripts straight from the depots : half-starved by the rupture of its supply lines , this nondescript force was utterly defeated by the numerically superior levies of the Seville Junta under Castaños , and by what Napoleon termed Dupont 's ‘ horrible generalship ’ . |
| 9 | The company was given the task of protecting Sooty and his furry pals Sweep and Soo from counterfeit products . |
| 10 | The private company was assigned the task of monitoring its own operations , which we find unacceptable . |
| 11 | This leads to a neglect of conservation management … the soil conservation expert is thus requested to propose technical and educational solutions to socio-political problems , whilst the sociologist is given the task of obtaining the approval of the population for measures taken without its advice and real consent . |
| 12 | At least one senior member , who for a time was delegated the task of convening its meetings , considered the panel to have been of little relevance in the first year or so : because the books were not on the shelves , so there was n't a great need for finding ways of stimulating the use of this material . |