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 | Mr Copeland also worked out what would have happened if a competing firm in the same industry had merely taken on the same amount of debt as the LBO did , without being bought out . |
| 7 | He plans to continue his involvement with Linlithgow Union Canal Society and , added , ‘ I 'm young enough to take on a new challenge . ’ |
| 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 | Meanwhile , assistant manager Terry McDermott claimed Newcastle are good enough to take on the Premier League now and still be winners . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It ultimately failed and the shipowners emerged victorious , offering only to take on an extra man on each ship to reduce unemployment . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 ] . |
| 15 | The whole net of relationships between community and subculture , class and centralizing monopoly capitalism thus took on a different shape . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The compromise nevertheless allowed individual member states to diverge from this target , with the UK retaining its less ambitious aim of reaching the target by 2005 rather than 2000 , and Greece , Ireland , Portugal and Spain also not taking on a 2000 target for their individual performance . |
| 18 | Best taken on an empty stomach so half an hour before food . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The phone startled her when it rang , so engrossed was she , but Rebecca answered it , her voice quickly taking on a distracted note . |
| 21 | The surveyors until recently seemed to have permanently taken on the boom-led guise of deal-makers , Ken Houston writes in Property . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Torres also took on the Foreign Affairs portfolio , Vice-Adml. ( retd ) Raúl Sánchez Sotomayor being unexpectedly dropped from the Cabinet . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Entomology was also taking on an economic role as its application to pest control became evident . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Eliot 's life , for the eight years still left to him , now took on a different pattern . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Marcuson found himself increasingly taking on the editorial running of the paper . |