Example sentences of "[adv] take on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your shopping receipts will suddenly take on a new significance ! |
| 2 | Your shopping receipts will suddenly take on a new significance ! |
| 3 | On the contrary , if the student body were to take its right to learn ( Lernfreiheit ) seriously , and were to be vigilant in seeing that it enjoyed the kinds of academic freedom I spelt out earlier , it would necessarily take on an assertive role . |
| 4 | She sat on the edge of his bedding , leaving her hand where it was , the physical contact suddenly taking on a new meaning . |
| 5 | That humble little abode for plant pots , trowels and gro-bags has suddenly taken on a new meaning in the light of the latest Sunday night shocker Lady Chatterley . |
| 6 | He plans to continue his involvement with Linlithgow Union Canal Society and , added , ‘ I 'm young enough to take on a new challenge . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , assistant manager Terry McDermott claimed Newcastle are good enough to take on the Premier League now and still be winners . |
| 9 | There were some excellent investigative programmes from Panorama , World in Action , This Week , First Tuesday and Twenty-Twenty Vision , which probed government scandals in the 1980s , but no journalist was bold enough to take on the Prime Minister herself . |
| 10 | It ultimately failed and the shipowners emerged victorious , offering only to take on an extra man on each ship to reduce unemployment . |
| 11 | The annual summer event , held in Castle Park , normally takes on a Victorian theme but organisers decided to change it to coincide with July 4 . |
| 12 | Well the other thing that 's in the back of my mind is I happen to know that Cath is just taking on a new worker |
| 13 | Relations with western Europe thus took on a high profile and Finland was among the EFTA countries seeking to negotiate with the European Communities ( EC ) a single European Economic Area [ see pp. 38307 ; 38353 ; 38 ] . |
| 14 | The whole net of relationships between community and subculture , class and centralizing monopoly capitalism thus took on a different shape . |
| 15 | The Cabriolet was already taking on an adaptable demeanour , but when I hit the distortion channel things became serious ; these humbuckers are capable of some pretty heavy stuff . |
| 16 | Best taken on an empty stomach so half an hour before food . |
| 17 | And then I met someone from the Kaplan galleries which showed thinking bishops in their robes such as you see in the windows of the galleries in St James'/ The gallery had just taken on a new director and were proposing to show modern art — people like Tinguely and Marcelle Cahn who at that time were n't known . |
| 18 | The phone startled her when it rang , so engrossed was she , but Rebecca answered it , her voice quickly taking on a distracted note . |
| 19 | The surveyors until recently seemed to have permanently taken on the boom-led guise of deal-makers , Ken Houston writes in Property . |
| 20 | Artificial appearance thereby takes on a sexual overtone which Porter detects in the expression ‘ making faces ’ , meaning to have sex Keith Thomas observes that by the eighteenth century bodily control became a symbol of social hierarchy An elegant person would not pass wind audibly , or expose teeth while laughing . |
| 21 | Torres also took on the Foreign Affairs portfolio , Vice-Adml. ( retd ) Raúl Sánchez Sotomayor being unexpectedly dropped from the Cabinet . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Entomology was also taking on an economic role as its application to pest control became evident . |
| 24 | So although in a liberal democracy it would seem practical and even suitable for the police to have a say in the way order is defined and maintained , as Foucault ( 1970 ) and Douglas ( 1987 ) have shown , this will inevitably take on an expansionist line ; for anything other than bland support of the proposals of the institution will present a challenge or pose a threat . |
| 25 | Eliot 's life , for the eight years still left to him , now took on a different pattern . |
| 26 | But what in the sixteenth century had been a highly convenient part of a wider whole , a matter of partisanship for immediate political and religious reasons , now took on an objective life of its own . |
| 27 | The station as a point of departure literally and metaphorically took on a particular intensity for the post-First World War generation of young British literati . |
| 28 | Marcuson found himself increasingly taking on the editorial running of the paper . |
| 29 | At the same time they maintained — and who could blame them ? — their party affiliations ; and once our mortal danger had passed these increasingly took on a partisan character . |
| 30 | The analysis of ideology then takes on a critical role by describing the social determination of knowledge in terms of particular social forms that both give rise to the contradictions present in ideology and are legitimized by its content . |