Example sentences of "take [adv prt] the challenge " in BNC.

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1 RADIO : Billy Butler takes on the challenges offered by Radio City 's Tony Snell and one man celebrating 25 wavelength years John Peel .
2 Paolozzi takes up the challenge with relish , as he deliberately creates hiatuses and breaks in The Wealth of Nations .
3 There may well be a reputable graffiti artist in the area who would take on the challenge for little more than the cost of the materials !
4 It is no good thinking that secateurs will keep a 30ft ( 9m ) monster down to 10 or ft ( 3 or 4m ) — the plant will take on the challenge , break forth with even greater vigour , and fight you all the way .
5 He convinced himself that speaking Italian to Franco presented a good opportunity to learn and therefore he should take up the challenge .
6 If the profession does not take up the challenge others will , and an opportunity will have been missed .
7 The willingness of AIS to listen to Skymaster users about the direction of the service is welcome , and one hopes that the customers will take up the challenge .
8 Perhaps one of the Aquatic Societies will take up the challenge .
9 ‘ But why take up the challenge in the first place ?
10 Loiseau took on the challenge .
11 It is a fascinating story of a turnaround , of the value of sectorisation and of the quality of the managers who took up the challenge of ‘ Other Provincial Services , .
12 Kitty took up the challenge again .
13 The assembly instructions were all written to US specification which provided an interesting conversion problem for the youngsters who took up the challenge .
14 Michell 's work provided the opportunity researchers had been waiting for and Pat Gadsby and Chris Hutton-Squire , of the alternative technology magazine , Undercurrents , took up the challenge .
15 Undaunted and determined to make his mark , the incomparable Robin Smith , accompanied by rising star Dougal Haston , took up the challenge .
16 When the national selectors ' viewpoint was put to him , Watt took up the challenge : ‘ I was happy to give it a real bash .
17 Miki and Chris took up the challenge from the Jim Rose Travelling Circus to drink the bile !
18 Ca n't someone bring some sense into this ridiculous situation before the governors who took up the challenge after the Government 's much-advertised campaign to persuade people to do the work , and those who served faithfully for many long years , resign en masse ?
19 The social sciences took up the challenge and , importantly for the development of International Relations , paraded economics as an exemplary application of scientific method to human affairs .
20 It was Owen who took up the challenge of modernizing the argument from design in a way that would allow it to incorporate the innovative aspects of transcendental anatomy .
21 So the chain stores took up the challenge .
22 Fogarty was left to move further and further ahead as Joey Dunlop took up the challenge , then Robert Dunlop made up ground rapidly after being seventh at the end of lap one , and by the end of the second lap it was Joey ahead of Robert to initiate a battle which continued until the end of the race when Robert just squeezed ahead .
23 On the 19–20th August David Jackson , JM 's well known accountant and trick cyclist , accompanied by Richard Smith , friend and fellow sufferer , took up the challenge and cycled a 250 mile route from Sonning , via Royston , Birmingham and Cresswell to Burslem .
24 It was on an earlier trip to Germany that Brenda took up the challenge to pass her bike test .
25 Computer technology was giving rise to a variety of innovative developments , and the field was in general pioneered by the CNAA and its institutions before the universities took up the challenge .
26 The couple who took up the challenge have no grandchildren of their own .
27 Eventually , four non-farmers took up the challenge in the hope of winning a ten thousand pound nest-egg .
28 , meaning that although he was fully dressed and armed , he took up the challenge and led the way .
29 Aldercine Hodson recently took up the challenge of organising a ‘ Fun Sports Afternoon ’ for the disabled that would cater especially for those handicapped people who have athletic inclinations but not necessarily the strength to cope with competition at County , Regional or National level .
30 Among those taking up the challenge was Haslemere architect Alan Coombes , who entered for the 15th time with his 1914 three-and-a-half horsepower three-speed , 4,500cc Douglas .
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