Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] take on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example — Panorama on Robert Maxwell was the only piece of journalism to take on the subject — and at considerable risk . |
| 2 | In the light of such feelings , the denial of the existence of class takes on the force of a moral imperative , rather than a statement of fact . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A third group of carers take on the job because they feel that they have to . |
| 5 | She was admitted for mobilisation , but tests requested the next morning on samples taken on the evening of admission showed a serum glucose concentration of 56.1 mmol/l . |
| 6 | To have the spokesman for science take on the churches seemed to many neither congenial nor wise . |
| 7 | Jesus had come to Jerusalem , the capital of Judaism to take on the religious authorities and at this point in time in this Gospel it looks like he 's lost , gon na be dead in a couple of days . |
| 8 | DR GEORGE Preti of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia took on the unenviable task of ‘ harvesting ’ sweat from the acrid armpits of scores of male volunteers . |
| 9 | The discovery instead went to a professional astronomer , Konrad Rudnicki , who shortly thereafter found the comet on photographs taken on the large telescope at Palomar Mountain . |
| 10 | Pollen analysis from samples taken on the spot have proved to be of prehistoric vegetation , while carbon dating of fragments of burnt wood have suggested a date of roughly 16,500 BC . |
| 11 | This is both in respect of the run up to the seventy fifth birthday and also with the increase in responsibility to take on the remit for the development of our work in relation to the European Community , central and Eastern Europe . |
| 12 | A carriage driver and his horses are on their way to America to take on the World 's best in the sport . |
| 13 | as if life at Westminster were not strain enough , the House of Lords took on the Commons in a tug o' war contest this week . |