Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [art] [adj] role " in BNC.
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| 1 | But quickly she was allowed an even higher profile and last October was formally appointed party deputy chairman to take on a prominent role during the election campaign and to sell the party to the business community . |
| 2 | There is evidence that men are taking early retirement or using redundancy to take on a caring role ( Green , 1988 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ They give us a sense of achievement too because we like to take on a caring role and feel responsible . |
| 4 | It was through his partnership with Bertie Fisher that Meeke 's Opel connections were established in the early Eighties and when the Spanish arm of the operation needed assistance he was asked to take on a supervisory role . |
| 5 | At the end of four years , successful apprentices will have all the skills of a first class mechanical and be ready to take on a full role in the factory . |
| 6 | The society has launched a search for an actor willing to take on the key role of Young Walsingham in their latest production . |
| 7 | They moved there in 1965 to take on the joint roles of warden and matron at the then residential and day training centre for the mentally handicapped . |
| 8 | Then there were truly new beginnings , a hated Poor Law , dead and buried ; a single , uncluttered task — to improve the quality of public care ; and a specially recruited ( and largely newly trained ) new band of professionals to take on the exciting role of pioneers . |
| 9 | What arrogance that is , that they allowed the schools to take on the full role when over fifty percent of em were already willing and anxious to do so . |
| 10 | The choice indicates how much the state is willing to take on an active role of managing national resources for greater international competitiveness , and in what form . |