Example sentences of "take on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though the annual value of these rights could hardly have been as much as £100,000 a year , the Company was ready to outdo the Bank of England and the East India Company and take on £9½m. of the National Debt , which would have been about a quarter of the total outstanding after the Treaty of Utrecht . |
| 2 | Today we take on Northtown , who beat us 4–2 back in October , thus denting our then red-hot title hopes . |
| 3 | Koreans take on Lothian operation |
| 4 | There was good enough reason , especially with the leg injury , to rest for a couple of days , but , with Joan in mind , my plan was to collect my mail , buy food , take on water , have a cup of coffee at the hotel , and be off towards Reggane . |
| 5 | Flockhart and Jillian Haldane are also in the Scotland Under-23 squad who take on Ulster at Stranraer on 11 March . |
| 6 | BERNIE Slaven 's outburst at being left out in the cold could cost him a place in the starting line-up as Middlesbrough take on Tranmere tonight . |
| 7 | Suffolk County Schools under-19 A side take on Sussex in the semi-finals of the Corinthian Casuals Cup at Diss FC tonight ( ko 7pm ) . |
| 8 | On Saturday Basingstoke don the armour of St Michael as they take on Torquay at home in the second round of the FA Cup . |
| 9 | On Saturday Basingstoke don the armour of St Michael as they take on Torquay at home in the second round of the FA Cup . |
| 10 | Gladiators take on grunt ‘ n ’ groan brigade in a giant head to head |
| 11 | These abstract generalizations take on substance in the words of many of the women interviewed in the present study . |
| 12 | Second , most lawyers take on cases on the basis that they will not ask for an upfront fee , but a percentage of the amount of damages won instead — often as much as 40% . |
| 13 | That would leave him little time to blend in with his new team-mates before they take on Luxembourg 's Spora in the opening round of the UEFA Cup . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're better off than the others , if you take on Gary 's horse . |
| 15 | LLANELLI will become the first Welsh club to earn match receipts of £100,000 when the Heineken League leaders take on champions Swansea today . |
| 16 | Swindon are at Grimsby and Hereford take on Cardiff |
| 17 | BILLINGHAM Synthonia will have virtually a full squad when they take on giant-killers Cockfield today . |
| 18 | England take on India again tomorrow ( frid ) in the third one-day international of a six-match series , having flown to Bangalore from Bombay yesterday . |
| 19 | Creaney , brought up on legends of the Lisbon Lions side who won the European Cup before he was born , is due to play his first full match in Europe when Celtic take on Cologne in the UEFA Cup first round first leg in Germany this week . |
| 20 | This means that employers who traditionally take on school leavers are having to look elsewhere to augment their staff . |
| 21 | Gloucester the only unbeaten team in the first division take on London Scottish who 've won all of their games in the second division |
| 22 | Darlington A team bowlers , chasing a Durham County league double , have a tough task ahead on Sunday when they take on South Tyneside over six rinks on a home and away basis . |
| 23 | In cricket , Gloucestershire face their most important game of the season this Wednesday when they take on Essex in the quarter finals of the Nat West Trophy . |
| 24 | And fourth-placed Bangor take on Glentoran at the Oval in a dress rehearsal for the Irish Cup game . |
| 25 | The Great Dane , recently voted the world 's best goalkeeper , will be looking for his seventh shut-out in a row as Manchester United take on Tottenham today . |
| 26 | Wallaby skipper Nick Farr-Jones argues the toss with Scottish referee Ken McCartney — but will his competitive instincts see him through a gruelling campaign as the World Champions take on South Africa this summer ? |
| 27 | Long Road , Cambridge , who include Amanda Brown , meet Queen 's Club while Hallamshire take on Puma Welwyn , last year 's winners , in the women 's event . |
| 28 | And finally , while Oxford United 's men take on Sunderland at the Manor tomorrow the club 's newly formed Ladies team makes its debut at the Witney Town Ground on Sunday afternoon … formerly known as the Oxford and County Ladies , United kick off their campaign against the Hassocks from Sussex . |
| 29 | To Michael Powell documentary was nothing more than a refuge for ‘ disappointed feature filmmakers or out-of-work poets ’ , but the wartime films he made within an immensely fruitful collaboration ( the Archers ) with the Hungarian Emeric Pressburger , with the two of them sharing credits for production , direction and screenwriting , take on documentary concerns in ways which indicate that the absorption of the documentary filmmakers into commercial filmmaking was only an incidental part of a process with roots deep in wartime culture . |
| 30 | Jarvis thinks the decision to break with tradition and bring in Indian prodigy Sachin Tendulkar last summer , and take on West Indies captain Richie Richardson next season was the right one . |