Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] take on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the far South-west , Cornish mining took on female labour to a degree unusual in the southern part of the country . |
| 2 | The scene is thus set for large-scale reductivist paraphrases , which in different ontological theories take on different forms , depending upon what kind of entities are regarded as basic . |
| 3 | An excessively elevated sense of standards means that there are difficulties about English Departments taking on overseas research students in numbers sufficient to help the university in its financial difficulties . |
| 4 | Different cells took on different functions . |
| 5 | And yet men do have reason to be concerned if , on these occasions , women find their lonely anger or isolated oppression is understood and shared by other women , so that personal struggles take on political dimensions . |
| 6 | The architectural design of the Tripartite Shrine takes on new layers of meaning once the column is seen as an idol or as an actual incarnation of a deity . |
| 7 | The Ganges is hallowed as a sacred , cleansing river and the humble cow takes on new significance . |
| 8 | Even when no political or social statement was intended , the most abstruse philosophical inquiry , the most obscure historical research , the narrowest psychological study took on political meaning . |
| 9 | The Kremlin therefore wanted to pursue competition short of armed conflict , and the mid-to-late 1950s saw the Cold War take on new dimensions and a truly global nature as Khruschev adapted to changed circumstances , proving ready , for example , to ally with groups in the emerging ‘ Third World ’ who opposed the capitalist and colonial West . |
| 10 | John , playing from Great Aycliffe , goes through to the area finals of the national championships to take on international Cliff Simpson ( Hartlepool ) on a neutral venue . |
| 11 | You are merely a woman who pretends to be fierce and , after all , you have been manoeuvred by men in spite of your supposed ability to take on all comers . |
| 12 | Ensuring that private practitioners take on preventive activities and promote healthy behaviour by their patients requires a substantial move away from a strictly market led approach . |
| 13 | The arrangement evolving at a number of the resource management pilot sites , in which a doctor acting as clinical director takes on this role with assistance from a nurse manager and a business manager , indicates the likely direction of change . |
| 14 | Sachin Tendulkar came in to a reception whose volume and pitch tended to confirm what Bishen Bedi had been saying about his sex appeal , and there was the arresting sight of a 41-year-old bowler taking on two batsmen whose combined age was 42 . |
| 15 | Their marriage was certainly not typical , yet it is possible that even in the early twentieth century it was not uncommon for retired men to take on more responsibility at home , as many do today : for lack of other evidence , we can only speculate . |
| 16 | Right : Common box takes on grand airs with a little elementary topiary , particularly suited to town gardens . |
| 17 | Eight days after knocking out Errol McDonald on a low-key bill at Bury , the 25-year-old Dudley boxer steps unexpectedly into the big time to take on experienced champion Donovan Boucher , of Canada . |
| 18 | I believe that it will be updated as the new computer takes on additional information , but when and at exactly what point is a matter on which I shall have to get back to the hon. Gentleman because I do not know ACPO 's plans . |
| 19 | But whilst the law and order debate ebbs and flows over the political terrain , there is a strategic need to establish a second front where radical criminology takes on corporate crimes and crimes of other powerful institutions and privileged people . |
| 20 | It is likely that the Minoan sacral horns acquired these and possibly additional symbolic meanings , becoming a layered symbol , in much the same way that the Cross of Christ has been transformed in religious art to take on all sorts of new overtones . |
| 21 | Six new members joined the Cabinet and three other ministers took on new responsibilities [ see p. 37702 ] . |
| 22 | Royal favour took on substantial material form in wardships , pensions , annuities , leases of Crown land , trading licences , and monopolies . |
| 23 | But the post office says the original ballot taken on industrial action maynot cover this strike over a suspension as it 's an entirely different issue . |