Example sentences of "taking [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a decision would , of course , require the acceptance of the State taking on the responsibility ( and its cost ) . |
| 2 | But now it appears thieves are being increasingly interested in taking on the hole in the wall and that means bigger and heavier vehicles to do it . |
| 3 | The people bounding around the room appeared to be transforming , taking on the shape and form of the animal masks they were wearing . |
| 4 | Taking on the rest of them . |
| 5 | Taking on the title role originally created by Michael Crawford in the Seventies , Jonathon opens at the Opera House in Manchester in September as Billy . |
| 6 | A syndrome — which was to recur again and again , from ABC to Age of Chance — of indie bands lashing other indie bands for their defeatism in not taking on the mainstream , was inaugurated . |
| 7 | Clause 4.2 of Precedent 1 deals with the matter by not taking on the obligation to deliver to a specific date in the first place . |
| 8 | If you are not putting the proper bodywork on the ball which is coming towards you and which you are taking on the rise , then you wo n't have the control . |
| 9 | Such was the confidence of the little girl they used to call ‘ Shorty ’ at school that she was now considering taking on the might of the English legal system . |
| 10 | Jazz FM , Kiss FM and LBC are taking on the might of London station Capital Radio by selling their airtime in one package . |
| 11 | I 'm taking on the question of violence , this most difficult question . |
| 12 | In the year 1990–91 , Innovation 's Franklin business was worth £1.2 million out of their total turnover of £4 million and since taking on the distributorship in 1987 they claim to have sold close to 300,000 units of Franklin product . |
| 13 | In this sense , the modern humanities were taking on the mantle worn by classics in earlier centuries , as a central cultural frame of reference . |
| 14 | He has set himself up as a left-wing leader taking on the Government , ’ Mr Clarke said . |
| 15 | Their skin taking on the pallor of death , is the same colour as the linen sheets . |
| 16 | This provides a classic instance of a president taking on the legislature in the most important of policy areas and succeeding in imposing his will . |
| 17 | Taking on the presidency at a low point in Italian political life ( his predecessor , Giovanni Leone , had resigned over the Lockheed scandal , and Prime Minister Aldo Moro had recently been assassinated by the Red Brigades — see pp. 29053-55 ) , Pertini was credited with restoring the country 's confidence and self-respect . |
| 18 | With many sexually active before their sixteenth birthday and with drug taking on the increase , education needs to start young . |
| 19 | Courageous in taking on the over-spending bogey that did such havoc in 1987 , it nevertheless opened the floodgates to a fortnight of ‘ we can give away more tax than you ’ , and exchanges between the two parties of a staggering triviality that effectively supplanted any wider debate about the economy . |
| 20 | Now a podgy , desperately unfit bar-fly , he simply was n't up to taking on the Man of Action role that he craved . |
| 21 | Passey and Melosh suggest taking on the basis of their investigations of crater fields . |
| 22 | Cricket now … the amateur players of the Minor Counties have been taking on the game 's elite in the first round of the Nat West Trophy . |
| 23 | This will be very unsatisfactory , so is there anyone nearer to Horndean who would consider taking on the task ? ’ |
| 24 | And with the large capital invetment involved , the customer depends on the fact that any new model must be capable of taking on the task in hand without difficulty — there is no room for mere gimmicks . |
| 25 | An outstanding American teacher of music speaks from her own experience of young children ( Upitis 1990 : 2 ) : " We have one strong factor in our favor in taking on the task of helping people become musicians , and that is , in some form all of us are already musicians . " |
| 26 | An expert taking on the task of deciding a dispute of this kind would be well advised to establish terms excluding claims . |
| 27 | Kelly also looked good at taking on the opposition but his final shot was appalling . |
| 28 | I suddenly realised the air was filled with soot from the chimneys above and the snow was taking on the appearance of cottage cheese sprinkled with black pepper . |
| 29 | IF Frank Chamberlain , chairman elect of the Test and County Cricket Board , had any qualms about taking on the job next October , they will have been magnified by his introduction to the massed press at Lord 's yesterday , writes Mike Selvey . |
| 30 | IF Frank Chamberlain , chairman elect of the Test and County Cricket Board , had any qualms about taking on the job next October , they will have been magnified by his introduction to the massed press at Lord 's yesterday , writes Mike Selvey . |