Example sentences of "[noun] taking on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | An expert taking on the task of deciding a dispute of this kind would be well advised to establish terms excluding claims . |
| 3 | He has set himself up as a left-wing leader taking on the Government , ’ Mr Clarke said . |
| 4 | The first is that whether we have in mind the student taking on the demands of the rational life , or the individual discipline considered as a rational endeavour , or an institution of higher education : for each of them rationality is neither static nor a definite end-point . |
| 5 | With many sexually active before their sixteenth birthday and with drug taking on the increase , education needs to start young . |
| 6 | Their skin taking on the pallor of death , is the same colour as the linen sheets . |
| 7 | Bowled over … the girls taking on the boys at their own game . |
| 8 | Such a decision would , of course , require the acceptance of the State taking on the responsibility ( and its cost ) . |
| 9 | Within a year , Pinchbeck was on his travels again , this time taking on the role of manager Exploitation with the Gulf of Mexico business unit in Houston , planning new deep water developments and reservoir management . |
| 10 | She was ‘ called-up ’ again by the SAAF in February 1971 , this time taking on the serial 6888 . |