Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [adv prt] the task " in BNC.
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| 1 | Responding to scientific reports from South and North America , Europe and Australia that millions of toads , frogs and salamanders are dying , the International Union for the Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ) has set up the Task Force on Dwindling Amphibian Populations . |
| 2 | Beverley has set about the task of designing monoclonals that can recognise the surfactant material and therefore indicate its presence or absence in the lungs of newborn babies . |
| 3 | The joint BPXM-Pemex team has set about the task ahead of them by cataloguing a mass of seismic , well and production data , much of it dating back to the 1930s . |
| 4 | Annette Chinnery , one of the reunion organisers , has set about the task of compiling a year-book . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Since the Criminal Law Revision Committee produced its Working Paper , the Crown Prosecution Service has taken over the task of prosecuting from the police . |