Example sentences of "[v-ing] take on the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He 's always looking to take on the back row and his sheer physical strength is phenomenal …
2 You were going to take on the ones we had last time .
3 We will want to be able to build high capacity systems so going to take on the class of applications that have traditionally been associated with a mainframe .
4 The first year you 're running on adrenalin and you 're going to take on the world .
5 But no European country , not even Britain , is going to take on the burden of a post-imperial military presence in the Persian Gulf .
6 It was beginning to take on the aspect of a full-scale expedition , and both women were looking forward to it immensely .
7 Having taken on the teachers and the police , he will now square up to fellow ministers and the voters .
8 having taken on the legacy
9 Popular puppet theatre is helping to take on the struggle against AIDS across southern Africa .
10 There is enough to do without trying to take on the role of quality controller standing by the conveyor belt of education , rejecting two out of three products as sub-standard .
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