Example sentences of "took [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Glashow himself remarked that the Nobel committee really took rather a gamble , because we do not yet have particle accelerators of high enough energy to test the theory in the regime where unification between the electromagnetic forces , carried by the photon , and the weak forces , carried by the W + , W - , and Z , really occurs . |
| 2 | ‘ Then you took rather a lot for granted , did n't you ? ’ |
| 3 | When Pauline and Chris Lloyd of Dudley moved house then took on a new garden with a 1 in 3 slope . |
| 4 | As a result , he necessarily developed a new self-image , and took on a new social personality in the process . |
| 5 | That which had been so familiar to me and accepted almost without thinking now took on a new and almost bizzare aspect . |
| 6 | For the causal relations of events would be just the same irrespective of whether or not the causal chain temporarily took on a mental aspect ( as in property dualism ) or ( as in substance dualism ) ‘ went mental ’ for a while . |
| 7 | Llanelli ....... 27 Leicester ....... 8 GOING for the gap took on a painful new meaning for Steve Bowling when he helped Llanelli claw their way back to win this entertaining game . |
| 8 | Their faces took on a different expression ; they grew more spruce and upright of bearing , ceased to loll about on the tables or against the walls , and held themselves up . |
| 9 | They scrubbed white the boards of the floor and the old brown flagstones of the hallway took on a damp glow . |
| 10 | For some time before this heavy clouds had increased and in the west the sky had become a dense purplish-black , a range of mountainous cumulus against which the outlines of buildings took on a curious clarity and the trees stood out livid and sickly bright . |
| 11 | Suddenly , this had become a special event and Lewis knew it , for his playing took on a new intensity as he began to alternate between rock ‘ n ’ roll classics from his early career back in the Fifties Sun era to later country material . |
| 12 | Court architects set the fashion , and what used to be an essentially English style took on a strong foreign influence . |
| 13 | His voice took on a well-rehearsed tone . |
| 14 | And her voice took on a keener edge . |
| 15 | Pliny describes a much sought-after metal called Corinthian bronze , an alloy of copper with gold and silver , which took on a purplish hue . |
| 16 | Her face became twisted and not so pretty , and as her voice grew louder it lost its cultured tones and took on a snarling harshness . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , most people who made history , or who instructed juniors how to make it , were concerned with a restricted genealogical range ; so knowledge took on a segmentary , even oppositional character : genealogies varied , for instance , from reciter to reciter and from audience to audience . |
| 18 | Political faction had become far more pervasive because the Reformation raised the temperature of Scottish politics , which now took on a focused European dimension , and because once the strong rule of James V had gone , men without the aura of royalty had to struggle with religious and political problems that they had never experienced before . |
| 19 | He reacted by behaving in a way which rammed home to the Scots memories of Edward I. The events of 1543 took on a sinister familiarity ; for Edward 's attempted annexation of Scotland had also begun with a proposed marriage , between the infant Margaret , Maid of Norway , who succeeded Alexander III in 1286 , and Edward 's son , the future Edward II . |
| 20 | Grigorovich 's simplistic , ideological heroes took on a new dimension when danced with such dramatic appeal , with such virility , such fabulous jumps . |
| 21 | When the household took on a maid , Simenon began an affair with her which lasted 15 years before his wife found out . |
| 22 | FREE-market economics took on a new meaning last week as schools received an invitation to shop around for the cheapest General Certificate of Secondary Education exams . |
| 23 | Last October in Harare , the Commonwealth took on a new role as a promoter of democracy , the rule of law , and respect for individual freedoms . |
| 24 | However , the golf reports took on a new look when supplied by Jack Webb in the two or three years before his death . |
| 25 | Humphrey 's research on workers in the Brazilian motor industry in the 1970s shows that , in this particular case , a group of relatively highly paid workers in a modern sector of the economy did not behave as a labour aristocracy , but took on a vanguard role in providing political leadership for the working class as a whole ( Humphrey 1982 ) . |
| 26 | These , er , workers ’ — his voice took on a faint sneer as he said the word — ‘ these workers suggest that most human behavior is learned , that we are controlled in our actions not by our inheritance but by what happens to us after birth . |
| 27 | The applause , scattered at first , thickened , took on a note of real enthusiasm , and tinny music could be heard threading through it , and then J. J. Gerrard was coming through the wide entrance at the back of the dais , his rather fat face heavily serious over his pink shirt , walking purposefully to the chair in the center . |
| 28 | Later , Ferrabee took on a partner , as trade references of the early 1870s refer to Ferrabee and Fox as producing cloth at Port Mill . |
| 29 | For this reason , the dictatorship of the proletariat took on a typically colonialist aspect . |
| 30 | Lady Bailey 's large face took on a set expression . |