Example sentences of "take on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Westminster NALGO is predicting massive redundancies in the borough unless private companies take on the existing staff . |
| 2 | They identify with the global capitalist system , reconceptualize their several national interests in terms of the global system , and take on the political project of reconceptualizing the national interests of their co-nationals in terms of the global capitalist system . |
| 3 | Today Wales B take on the shaken Aussies in Cardiff — and Davies does n't rule out another shock Welsh win . |
| 4 | I should be grateful if you would let me know what action you take on the above matters . |
| 5 | This Sunday the Oxford Saints take on the Delonghi Knights from Kent in the National League play offs . |
| 6 | As a result , psychiatrists take on the crucial rule of assessor and expert witness in child care cases in which the mother has a mental or behavioural disorder . |
| 7 | They suggest that , within the family , women take on the expressive role of nurturing the other family members , while men take on the instrumental role and go into the outside world to earn the family 's wage . |
| 8 | They suggest that , within the family , women take on the expressive role of nurturing the other family members , while men take on the instrumental role and go into the outside world to earn the family 's wage . |
| 9 | If you take on the big issues and the people wo n't follow , then at least you can say you have tried . ’ |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | ( Here , incidentally , is my take on the homosexual male . |
| 12 | By the middle of next year the bank will move its head office into Poultry , and take on the heavy mantle of tradition . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They take on the whole world , but they 've got no patterns with which to deal with all that experience. , |
| 15 | His judgements take on the ex-cathedra ring of a Lawrence : ‘ I believe in you as a painter . ’ |
| 16 | FASHION lovers will soon be able to snap up top label clothes at bargain prices as revolutionary new superstores take on the High Street giants . |