Example sentences of "have [adv] taken on " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has enabled DCM to eradicate duplicated overheads — 38 staff were made redundant at the time , although DCM has since taken on another 15 . |
| 2 | Ken Robinson , too , has successfully taken on the role of one-man interpreter , friend , challenger , articulator and spokesman not only for drama but for the arts in education generally ( 1980 and 1982 ) . |
| 3 | That humble little abode for plant pots , trowels and gro-bags has suddenly taken on a new meaning in the light of the latest Sunday night shocker Lady Chatterley . |
| 4 | It has been too complacent in collecting large sums of money from a few lucrative inventions , such as the cephalosporin antibiotics , and has not taken on enough risky new ventures . |
| 5 | It does not necessarily follow that any individual who has not taken on the attitude of the generalized other is any less complete than the person who has and acts accordingly . |
| 6 | The Angel Hotel , Bury St Edmunds , has already taken on two extra workers and is seeking four more after a bumper 12 months . |
| 7 | The EC has also taken on the role of policing the exercise of these rights through the Commission and the European Court of Justice , taking its brief from the provisions of the Treaty of Rome 1957 concerning free movement of goods and services , restrictive trade agreements and abuses of dominant trading positions . |
| 8 | It is only a couple of years ago that Jenkins rejected out of hand the Wales involvement he has now taken on , and — until Davies and the Wales manager , Robert Norster , beat their path to his door — he has tended to use the expression ‘ poisoned chalice ’ whenever anyone sounded out his interest or rather the lack of it . |
| 9 | Helping governors and parents to see how well a school is doing and explaining or defending the school has now taken on another dimension : comparisons with other schools leads to one set of questions while the extent to which the school is organized in accordance with the national curriculum and within the national framework of pupil assessment leads to different , inward-looking enquiries . |
| 10 | ‘ The YMCA has now taken on a much more important role , ’ says the genial Mr Hewitt , who is very concerned about the homeless . |
| 11 | It is n't going to take any risks , Parker said , and has even taken on US software specialists to provide in-depth knowledge of the local market . |
| 12 | The greatest of them is the state , which has everywhere taken on more and more tasks in recent decades which have swollen its administrative archives . |
| 13 | In particular circumstances a director may owe a duty directly to shareholders ; that duty will not derive from his status as a director but from particular responsibilities he has voluntarily taken on . |
| 14 | Anthony Summers specialises in works of investigation , with the assassination of John F Kennedy , the life and death of Marilyn Monroe and the Profumo scandal among the subjects he has previously taken on . |
| 15 | " Since it matters to some extent ( and perhaps a good deal ) which rule is chosen , we do best to use convention only to protect decisions that some responsible political institution has actually taken on the merits and to not include under that umbrella decisions by default , that is decisions no one has actually made . |
| 16 | Headline has recently taken on the challenge of some of the Queen Anne Press list — the Rothmans and Playfair sports books . |
| 17 | The merits of the programme itself are debated below , but in spite of considerable resources expended , the programme has never taken on its comprehensive scope . |
| 18 | MPs are getting letters complaining that fathers may have already taken on commitments they ca n't get out of and they were only expecting to pay whatever the courts had fixed . |
| 19 | The surveyors until recently seemed to have permanently taken on the boom-led guise of deal-makers , Ken Houston writes in Property . |
| 20 | Mr Copeland also worked out what would have happened if a competing firm in the same industry had merely taken on the same amount of debt as the LBO did , without being bought out . |
| 21 | In cases where the respondent is a non-governmental body , it may be possible to ask whether there is evidence that if the respondent had not taken on the function in question , the government would have . |
| 22 | By their mid teens young people were able to earn , and were sexually mature , but had not taken on independent economic responsibilities . |
| 23 | That baggage you 've just taken on to help in the bedroom wears one like that and ties her apron right up under her breasts till they nearly pop out , beggin' your pardon , Mr Timothy . |
| 24 | because you 've just taken on too much . |
| 25 | An argument developed because Mr Brown told her that the new chauffeur the company had just taken on could use her car while she was away , as the car that had been ordered for him had not arrived . |
| 26 | And then I met someone from the Kaplan galleries which showed thinking bishops in their robes such as you see in the windows of the galleries in St James'/ The gallery had just taken on a new director and were proposing to show modern art — people like Tinguely and Marcelle Cahn who at that time were n't known . |
| 27 | On the back of their expected thirty thousand pound cash injection they 've already taken on extra staff . |
| 28 | Instead , he rationalized his thoughts and justified himself Adam probably — indeed , almost certainly — knew nothing about the find in the pine wood , but Adam had once owned the house and had thus taken on a responsibility . |
| 29 | Then John Keane came along , the only artist I 've ever taken on from seeing slides . |
| 30 | She had tried , but the rehearsals had gradually taken on the menace of trials of endurance . |