Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AS THE title of his admirable autobiography — Jousting with Giants — admits , Jim McLean has always enjoyed taking on the Scottish game 's major forces . |
| 2 | The word Resident normally implied , at least officially , a preponderance of diplomatic over administrative duties , but it was clear from the beginning that a Lugardian Resident was expected to take on a large number of purely administrative tasks . |
| 3 | Although Liz Cole-Hamilton , 41 , has worked throughout her marriage , she has now decided that the time has come to take on a new challenge . |
| 4 | B U choose the Merry Widow because their last show White Horse was so successful the B U Musical Society have decided to take on the ambitious task of tackling the Merry Widow for their next production . |
| 5 | The one where this governess is told to put on a special dress and sit with her back to the window . |
| 6 | Since the invisibility of women is not confined to particular disciplines , feminism has tended to take on an interdisciplinary approach . |
| 7 | In the late 1950s , however , his Office was still very small and not equipped to take on the extra load . |
| 8 | Child labour was bound to take on a different quality when removed from the home and , in the case of the pauper factory apprentices , from the locality of upbringing . |
| 9 | So this was done , and on the very next day fine grapes were found hanging on the youngest brother 's vine . |
| 10 | Sterling 's immediate fortunes are widely believed to hang on a positive reception to Mr Lawson 's speech . |
| 11 | It was through his partnership with Bertie Fisher that Meeke 's Opel connections were established in the early Eighties and when the Spanish arm of the operation needed assistance he was asked to take on a supervisory role . |
| 12 | Class 5 leader Gen. Suchinda Kraprayoon retained his post as Army C.-in-C. and was promoted to take on the additional post of Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces , in place of Gen. Sunthorn Kongsompong . |
| 13 | There is only one Arsenal today , and I can not conceive another simply because no other club have players fitted to carry on the same ideas . ’ |
| 14 | For Joshua , at sixty-two , and suffering from a bad leg , distances had begun to take on an extraordinary significance . |
| 15 | This is the second time you 've failed to pass on a vital message . |
| 16 | If this explained Mason 's reluctance to pressure Biggs in the middle rounds , thereby allowing the American to pepper him with jabs , it can not obscure the possibility that the British heavyweight will always experience difficulty if required to take on a long contest . |