Example sentences of "[verb] to take on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He still wants to take on the best in the world , but the best do not seem to want him . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | How could she expect to take on the powerful Lucenzo Salviati — a man with centuries of trickery in his blood — and come out top ? |
| 4 | In the late 1950s , however , his Office was still very small and not equipped to take on the extra load . |
| 5 | IF ever there was a horse perfectly equipped to take on the best it 's Bradbury Star . |
| 6 | If the family were going to take on the outside world , they 'd do it in eccentric style , his father had implied . |
| 7 | Gadebridge probably began life as a small farm , but from Period 4 , during the third century , it began to take on the additional characteristics , even to the extent of a gatehouse , or porter 's lodge . |
| 8 | I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape . |
| 9 | Towards evening , when the grass started to take on the dry crackle of hay , it was as if the small handshakings were springing up in the meadow . |
| 10 | Unaware of the death of the sect 's figurehead leader , Grant , Springfield and their patchwork assembly of troops were preparing to take on the real power behind the throne — the sinister oriental who was using the organisation as a front for his Triad drugs network . |
| 11 | Opposition groups are preparing to take on the Communist Party in Bulgaria 's first free elections for more than 40 years which are to be fixed by next May , but dissident leaders have called for a postponement . |
| 12 | If we 're confident that you can afford to take on the extra commitment , we 're quite happy to agree a second loan . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Gould would also be reunited with Natty and Jemmy , who he planned to take on the Namoi expedition . |
| 15 | I can even remember when Finnegans Wake was thought to be incomprehensible and the gentleman sitting on my right , George Craig , is almost , but not quite , my contemporary at this university and I was genuinely delighted when he agreed to take on the herculean task of giving a lecture a centenary lecture on James Joyce . |
| 16 | But he left to take on the run-down Staffordshire country house called Alton Towers and made it into a top leisure and theme park . |
| 17 | This remark had important implications in the theory of the technique of psychoanalysis , where transference — the way the analyst comes to take on the emotional elements of a parent figure for the analysand — plays a key part in understanding the therapeutic effects of psychoanalysis . |
| 18 | If you are the victim of a game refuse to take on the bad feeling it leaves you with . |