Example sentences of "[verb] take on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AS THE title of his admirable autobiography — Jousting with Giants — admits , Jim McLean has always enjoyed taking on the Scottish game 's major forces . |
| 2 | A local trust has now been set up to champion the restoration of the landscape ; and the Landmark Trust has taken on the principal building , the splendid banqueting house , constructed with three great arches , overlooking the valley like one of the fountains of baroque Rome . |
| 3 | To prove his point he has taken on the legal profession and , with no legal training whatsoever , tied judges in such knots they have overruled each other . |
| 4 | Yes well , for the experimental aircraft programme British Aerospace specified what G E C had to do and er a a this time , if you like , Deutsch Aerospace has taken on the equivalent role that B A E had for the experimental aircraft programme and er Deutsch Aerospace are not without experience in flight controls they have . |
| 5 | In his day he has taken on the big guns of industry , commercialised culture and of whole countries ( who can easily forget his devastating portrait of Mrs Thatcher and the fawning Saatchi brothers ? ) . |
| 6 | She has taken on the sophisticated royal machine and beaten it at its own game . |
| 7 | Mark Jones , the exhibition 's curator , has taken on the dual task of tracing the history of forgery from archaic Babylon to contemporary California , while at the same time tracing the history of how forgery is understood . |
| 8 | All four are , for example , victimised in different ways by the taboo of illegitimacy and the play focuses on Rose , who has been kept from the knowledge that Jackie is her mother by grandmother Margaret who has taken on the maternal role . |
| 9 | Matthew Spender ( son of the poet Stephen ) has taken on the harder task of writing about Tuscany from within . |
| 10 | He still wants to take on the best in the world , but the best do not seem to want him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | How could she expect to take on the powerful Lucenzo Salviati — a man with centuries of trickery in his blood — and come out top ? |
| 13 | ‘ I enjoy taking on the big battalions , ’ he says . |
| 14 | In the late 1950s , however , his Office was still very small and not equipped to take on the extra load . |
| 15 | IF ever there was a horse perfectly equipped to take on the best it 's Bradbury Star . |
| 16 | If the family were going to take on the outside world , they 'd do it in eccentric style , his father had implied . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | His belief is that work has to go on all year round , whether or not that means taking on the hazardous and snow-covered Carpathian mountains . |
| 21 | John Powell , at 61 , is probably the oldest driver to have taken on the new Grand Prix Circuit . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | If we 're confident that you can afford to take on the extra commitment , we 're quite happy to agree a second loan . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Gould would also be reunited with Natty and Jemmy , who he planned to take on the Namoi expedition . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | What Butthole Surfers have done , what made and makes them so crucial , is that they 've taken on the sonic possibilities bequeathed still unexplored and underdeveloped by acid rock but have jettisoned many of the disabling attitudes that originally trammelled that music — sophistication , expertise , the counter-cultural impulse to edify . |
| 29 | It had taken on the private circulating libraries and won , but in winning the battle it lost a war , perhaps even the war that Gladstone so acutely saw they were fighting . |
| 30 | The dungeon had taken on the squalid smell of the cave back in hell . |