Example sentences of "[v-ing] to take on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's always looking to take on the back row and his sheer physical strength is phenomenal … |
| 2 | The first year you 're running on adrenalin and you 're going to take on the world . |
| 3 | But no European country , not even Britain , is going to take on the burden of a post-imperial military presence in the Persian Gulf . |
| 4 | If the family were going to take on the outside world , they 'd do it in eccentric style , his father had implied . |
| 5 | We will want to be able to build high capacity systems so going to take on the class of applications that have traditionally been associated with a mainframe . |
| 6 | You were going to take on the ones we had last time . |
| 7 | I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape . |
| 8 | It was beginning to take on the aspect of a full-scale expedition , and both women were looking forward to it immensely . |
| 9 | Opposition groups are preparing to take on the Communist Party in Bulgaria 's first free elections for more than 40 years which are to be fixed by next May , but dissident leaders have called for a postponement . |
| 10 | Unaware of the death of the sect 's figurehead leader , Grant , Springfield and their patchwork assembly of troops were preparing to take on the real power behind the throne — the sinister oriental who was using the organisation as a front for his Triad drugs network . |
| 11 | Popular puppet theatre is helping to take on the struggle against AIDS across southern Africa . |
| 12 | There is enough to do without trying to take on the role of quality controller standing by the conveyor belt of education , rejecting two out of three products as sub-standard . |