Example sentences of "[verb] on the [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A charming children 's story in which a small helicopter takes on the biggest financial brains in Europe and the USA , and loses badly . |
| 2 | embed sentences in relations to reality in such a way that they can take on the general pragmatic functions of representation , expression and establishing interpersonal relations . |
| 3 | Although he had helped to set up British Aerospace as a nationalised company , he was convinced it could not take on the huge rival plane-makers in the United States unless it was unfettered from government control . |
| 4 | It had taken on the private circulating libraries and won , but in winning the battle it lost a war , perhaps even the war that Gladstone so acutely saw they were fighting . |
| 5 | These three carry on the irresponsible practical jokes and illicit enterprises of their seniors , borrowing boats while in harbour and exploring themselves into danger , invariably rescued by improbably patient sailors . |
| 6 | The declining popularity of bonfire night in the back garden is having two effects : a dramatic cut in the number of people hurt by fireworks , and booming business for the firms that put on the big public displays . |
| 7 | Countries with large commercial-debt problems will get no help from the Brady plan unless , like Mexico , they take on the drastic economic reforms that western governments demand as the price of their support . |
| 8 | Neville suggested he might write something on the Eye , to take on the ageing young men of Greek Street . |