Example sentences of "to take [adv prt] a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN APPLE for the teacher is about to take on a new meaning in California . |
| 2 | Julia seemed to take on a new lease of life and now that the weather was improving she often walked to Carrie 's house or to see Bridie and her family . |
| 3 | But quickly she was allowed an even higher profile and last October was formally appointed party deputy chairman to take on a prominent role during the election campaign and to sell the party to the business community . |
| 4 | As she spoke the pens of the newspaper reporters seemed to take on a frantic life of their own , skipping across the lines of their notebooks . |
| 5 | ‘ Solitude enflamed the imagination of Henri K — , and gradually the parrot began to take on a rare significance in his mind . |
| 6 | After the line , ‘ gradually the parrot began to take on a rare significance in his mind ’ , he made the following annotation : ‘ Change the animal : make it a dog instead of a parrot . |
| 7 | Within a department it must be possible for people who have particular interests and aptitudes for teaching to take on a greater share of the load . |
| 8 | One more summer term to winter still the house had not looked upon anyone she saw as suitable enough to take on a satisfactory residence within her proud walls , if only she was . |
| 9 | At the end of four years , successful apprentices will have all the skills of a first class mechanical and be ready to take on a full role in the factory . |
| 10 | The word Resident normally implied , at least officially , a preponderance of diplomatic over administrative duties , but it was clear from the beginning that a Lugardian Resident was expected to take on a large number of purely administrative tasks . |
| 11 | The manager may be the only member of the team who is present in the office full time to fill these gaps and the responsibility of ensuring continuity for clients may make a manager reluctant to take on a large team of very part-time volunteers . |
| 12 | Do not forget to take along a separate sample of pond water — that in the fish bag will not be representative of your water quality . |
| 13 | Fears of an energy shortfall will lend new weight to calls by PowerGen , the smaller of the two Central Electricity Generating Boards , to take over a bigger share of the power market . |
| 14 | While car makers demand lower prices , they want suppliers to take over a bigger share of production and become more involved in the design and development of parts . |
| 15 | Then Uncle Fred moved to take over a bigger camp for displaced persons at Bideford . |
| 16 | He has a scheme to take over a small number of simple churches and adapt them as retreats . |
| 17 | DAVID EVANS , director of Reactor Division , is to take over a new post as director of Reactor Technology , working on BNFL 's input into the Reactor Study Programme being co-ordinated by the Nuclear Utilities Chairmen 's Group for the 1994 Industry Review . |
| 18 | Balfourier 's ‘ Iron ’ XX Corps had now reached the front in its entirety ; two further corps were on their way , and a third standing by ; Haig , with rather ill grace , had agreed to take over a further sector of the line from the French , so an adequate supply of reinforcements seemed assured . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've just been asked to take over a leading role in a production that 's been playing in Stratford which they 're taking to the Barbican . |
| 20 | To be able to ‘ identify what their interests and ideas might be ’ is to take up a political stance to life at work . |
| 21 | I 've got to take up a new attitude with him . |
| 22 | At the same time it was announced Leckpatick chief executive Malcolm Woods had resigned to take up a new position as managing director of John Kelly , Belfast . |
| 23 | Several standard-bearing veterans of the uprising were forced hastily to switch positions — and the soldier carrying the wreath sprinted 50 yards to take up a new position in front of the prince . |
| 24 | The Chief Constable of Gloucestershire has announced that he 's leaving his job to take up a new post with the intelligence service in London . |
| 25 | In June , Sacheverell started a lengthy progress through the midlands , on his way to take up a new living in Shropshire , and virtually everywhere he went he received a rapturous reception from the local inhabitants shouting " God Bless Doctor Sacheverell " . |
| 26 | When the British naval officer Captain ( later Admiral ) Colomb passed through Alexandria to Suez on his way to take up a new command in the anti-slavery squadron in 1868 , he wrote of the rudimentary nature of stations in Egypt . |
| 27 | Sr Janice McLaughlin has returned to her native USA to take up a new appointment as head of the Communications Office of the Maryknoll Sisters in New York . |
| 28 | To take up a vacant living in Mountsorrel . ’ |
| 29 | This was necessary to me as part of my approach to socialism , for before you can be sure whether you are genuinely in favour of socialism , you have got to decide whether things at present are tolerable or not tolerable , and you have got to take up a definite attitude on the terribly difficult question of class … |
| 30 | The best he could do was to take up a central position in the ward , using a chair for a hassock , and to make a general supplication for all the patients collectively . |