Example sentences of "took up the challenge " in BNC.

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1 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 , .
2 Kitty took up the challenge again .
3 The assembly instructions were all written to US specification which provided an interesting conversion problem for the youngsters who took up the challenge .
4 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 .
5 Undaunted and determined to make his mark , the incomparable Robin Smith , accompanied by rising star Dougal Haston , took up the challenge .
6 When the national selectors ' viewpoint was put to him , Watt took up the challenge : ‘ I was happy to give it a real bash .
7 Miki and Chris took up the challenge from the Jim Rose Travelling Circus to drink the bile !
8 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 ?
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 So the chain stores took up the challenge .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 It was on an earlier trip to Germany that Brenda took up the challenge to pass her bike test .
15 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 .
16 The couple who took up the challenge have no grandchildren of their own .
17 Eventually , four non-farmers took up the challenge in the hope of winning a ten thousand pound nest-egg .
18 , meaning that although he was fully dressed and armed , he took up the challenge and led the way .
19 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 .
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