Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] take [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Suddenly , his inability to attract friends took on a new significance . |
| 3 | This did , not prevent her from becoming engaged , in 1956 , to Edgar Lintot , who was about to leave Cambridge to take up a pre-registration post at St Michael 's Hospital in Lewisham . |
| 4 | Because we earn no money for the bulk of our day 's work , buying things takes on a rich range of meanings . |
| 5 | Computer based training takes on a whole new lease of life when you throw in multi media . |
| 6 | Given that the eventual needs of a working system may be biased towards the domain of Commerce , the results for the Business , Employment and Finance documents take on a particular relevance . |
| 7 | This approach means that the task of establishing and maintaining control takes on a different form at the Delphi Centre ; the deliberate employment of ‘ control periods ’ . |
| 8 | In the three or so years before matters were finally settled , a lot happened ; George Simpson gave up his interest in the partnership to retire to his leafy mansion near Reigate ; Hofmann had left England to take up a prestigious academic post in Berlin ; and the new Nicholson , Maule & Nicholson partnership had begun to transfer its production to a site at Hackney Wick . |
| 9 | It 's high time the insurance companies allowed buyers to take out a special policy to cover the first month in a new home . |
| 10 | There is evidence that men are taking early retirement or using redundancy to take on a caring role ( Green , 1988 ) . |
| 11 | Only rarely — in the gymnasium , at a night-club , perhaps — does Philadelphia take on a physical presence . |
| 12 | PA ( a management consultancy ) asked 145 companies taking part in its 1985 ‘ Annual Fringe Benefits Report ’ to say whether or not they provided assistance when senior executives had to move house to take up a new post . |
| 13 | When the hue and cry died down , there was nothing Charlton could do to prevent Lawrence taking on a new challenge . |