Example sentences of "to take [adv prt] the challenge " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , as villagers sadly began to dig up bluebell and primrose roots from the soon-to-be-flooded little woods of their pleasant countryside and to plant them elsewhere on safer ground , the Anglian Water Board asked Dame Sylvia Crowe , the landscape architect , to take on the challenge of turning the proposed 3,000-acre inland sea , with its 27-mile perimeter , into an ‘ environmental asset ’ . |
| 2 | Please contact the Office immediately if you would like to take on the challenge of this demanding task . |
| 3 | The Israeli government has been agonisingly slow to take up the challenge , although it has calculated that US$3 billion will be needed over three years for housing , job creation and other aspects of large-scale immigrant absorption . |
| 4 | But telephone companies building long-distance , high-capacity transmission lines have not been slow to take up the challenge . |
| 5 | As always , Greta was prepared to take up the challenge ( ‘ We might put pressure on the War Office at this end ’ ) , but was forestalled by an offer from another direction . |
| 6 | Friday was national Trading Places Day and housing staff at East Hampshire District Council were quick to take up the challenge . |
| 7 | In the midst of these , in 1926 , there arrived in India the man who was to take up the challenge Gandhi had thrown down to the Englishman 's belief in his god-given aptitude for rule — the sixteenth viceroy , Lord Irwin . |
| 8 | As it stands , few serious runners are likely to take up the challenge to turn it on . |
| 9 | He attributed his gaining ten ‘ O ’ levels , four ‘ A ’ levels , a psychology degree and ( in process ) a Masters degree to his own ‘ determination to take up the challenge of the idea of the black kid who 's got no brains . ’ |
| 10 | He sought only to take up the challenge they had thrown down in their fight against Fascism and Britain . |
| 11 | Each one of them will know what it means to take up the challenge year after year of a yet higher fund raising target . ’ |
| 12 | People like you are needed to take up the challenge . |
| 13 | Miss Kyte chose not to take up the challenge . |
| 14 | We have also had support from our colleagues in Brussels ( see article on page 21 of this issue ) and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for taking the lead and to appeal to Johnson Matthey sites around the world to take up the challenge . |
| 15 | Would anyone like to take up the challenge of demystifying this article ; and how would Tania Guha herself ‘ rewrite ’ it if it were to be read by those ‘ others ’ who have not yet been through the intellectual sieve of the university hierarchy ? |
| 16 | Although slightly wounded , says that she is ready to take up the challenge again next year . |
| 17 | University — and particularly institute of education — suspicion of the entry of the CNAA into the field also spurred the universities to take up the challenge to validate the BEd that Robbins had thrown down . |
| 18 | Commentators have seen this as an acknowledgement of the slowness of the French-speaking nations to take up the challenge of an international role . |
| 19 | Farmer Nicola De Pulford , who keeps free range poultry in Devon , agreed to take up the challenge . |
| 20 | He persuaded Brannen , a natural middle distance runner and high jumper , to take up the challenge of the ten events ( 100 metres , long jump , shot , high jump and 400 metres on day one of a competition , followed by the 110 metres hurdles , discus , pole vault , javelin and 1500 metres on day two ) . |
| 21 | Urging firms to take up the challenge of the new markets to safeguard their future , he added : ‘ It is the innovative and proactive oil and gas service companies of Scotland with the vision and drive to explore and capitalise on international markets who will succeed and grow in the next century . ’ |