Example sentences of "[noun sg] taking on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This provides a classic instance of a president taking on the legislature in the most important of policy areas and succeeding in imposing his will . |
2 | An expert taking on the task of deciding a dispute of this kind would be well advised to establish terms excluding claims . |
3 | If the children are unused to the teacher taking on a role , however , they will want to push you into an authority role . |
4 | He has set himself up as a left-wing leader taking on the Government , ’ Mr Clarke said . |
5 | The contest turned out more like a flyweight taking on a cruiserweight , with the referee on the cruiser 's side . |
6 | The first is that whether we have in mind the student taking on the demands of the rational life , or the individual discipline considered as a rational endeavour , or an institution of higher education : for each of them rationality is neither static nor a definite end-point . |
7 | With many sexually active before their sixteenth birthday and with drug taking on the increase , education needs to start young . |
8 | Their skin taking on the pallor of death , is the same colour as the linen sheets . |
9 | Such a decision would , of course , require the acceptance of the State taking on the responsibility ( and its cost ) . |
10 | ’ I believe we know of each other , you and I ’ the golden man said , his smile and his voice taking on an edge of mockery . |
11 | Within a year , Pinchbeck was on his travels again , this time taking on the role of manager Exploitation with the Gulf of Mexico business unit in Houston , planning new deep water developments and reservoir management . |
12 | She was ‘ called-up ’ again by the SAAF in February 1971 , this time taking on the serial 6888 . |