Example sentences of "[adv] take on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , assistant manager Terry McDermott claimed Newcastle are good enough to take on the Premier League now and still be winners . |
| 3 | There were some excellent investigative programmes from Panorama , World in Action , This Week , First Tuesday and Twenty-Twenty Vision , which probed government scandals in the 1980s , but no journalist was bold enough to take on the Prime Minister herself . |
| 4 | The surveyors until recently seemed to have permanently taken on the boom-led guise of deal-makers , Ken Houston writes in Property . |
| 5 | Torres also took on the Foreign Affairs portfolio , Vice-Adml. ( retd ) Raúl Sánchez Sotomayor being unexpectedly dropped from the Cabinet . |
| 6 | Marcuson found himself increasingly taking on the editorial running of the paper . |
| 7 | If all the amendments are lost , one by one , a vote is then taken on the original motion just as if there had been no amendments moved at all . |
| 8 | But he will think long and hard before he again takes on the United board . |