Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] take on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | De Niro , in his funniest performance since Rupert King Of Comedy Pupkin plays a small-time New York lawyer keen to be someone , to make his mark by taking on the local crime boss/boxing promoter as well as tangling with the local barman 's wife played by Cape Fear co star Jessica Lange . |
| 2 | The " Daily Mail " may have lost money in taking on the " Moonies " but it gained both in reputation and by discouraging similar actions against itself . |
| 3 | By this means the organisation tries to adapt to peaks and troughs in demand without taking on the burden of high fixed labour costs . |
| 4 | And he had , after all , his own private reason for taking on the job . |
| 5 | However , the bank can also use an exchange traded futures contract to further reduce its risk in taking on the forward contract . |
| 6 | 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 . " |
| 7 | Taylor is obviously full of anticipation as he embarks on the most important year since taking on the England job . |
| 8 | He understood now , all right , and there was some comfort in taking on the complete burden of guilt , a kind of purgative sense of martyrdom , not unrelated to self-pity . |
| 9 | Raymond Aron , for example , argued that the General 's policy " accustomed the French to taking on the wrong enemy " . |
| 10 | He sacrificed precious time by taking on the onerous administrative post of tutor , which he held from 1929 to 1942 , and also the pious labour of bringing out volume two of the posthumously published Early Age of Greece ( 1931 ) of Sir William Ridgeway [ q.v . ] . |