Example sentences of "takes on the [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It reads as a separate vertical volume and without being an actual pedestal , it takes on the function of a pedestal . |
| 2 | Her major musical films included Evergreen ( 1934 ) , an untidy but profitable adaptation of a West End stage success ; First a Girl ( 1935 ) , in which Matthews amusingly impersonates a female impersonator in a British version of the German Viktor und Viktoria , and the fascinating It 's Love Again ( 1936 ) , in which Matthews is a struggling dancer who takes on the character of a fictional celebrity dreamed up by two desperate newspaper men . |
| 3 | One species of beetle in Brazil , when alarmed , immediately folds up its legs and flattens itself sideways , exposing its white underside and so takes on the appearance of a bird dropping . |
| 4 | The class takes on the role of a small rural community . |
| 5 | The ErgoClient takes on the characteristics of a personal computer by means of a similar personality module , which incorporates an Intel Corp 80486 processor and simply slots into the machine . |
| 6 | If that person has no real exposure as a concomitant of trading activity but takes on the risk as a means of generating income , he is referred to as a " speculator " . |
| 7 | When meditating deeply before such an idol it appears as if the image takes on the aura of a live human-being . |
| 8 | ( 1937 , You 're in the Army Now in US ) , the improbable tale of an American hoodlum who takes on the identity of a murdered gambling companion and finds himself in the British Army , where he slowly comes to understand the habits of self-effacing Englishmen . |
| 9 | In the light of such feelings , the denial of the existence of class takes on the force of a moral imperative , rather than a statement of fact . |
| 10 | He talks of the " dark embryo " which gradually takes on the form of a poem , of " dark psychic material " with which the poet struggles ; it is a " burden " to be relieved or a " demon " to be exorcised . |
| 11 | If , as previously shown , the free end of this two-link system is attached to a third member ( C in Figure 7.39 ) which is also grounded , the mechanism takes on the form of a four bar chain . |