Example sentences of "[noun pl] take on [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His lips took on a wry slant . |
| 2 | His eyes took on a dreamy expression and by the time I had intoned " Archibald , Marshall , English , Mc Phail and Morton , " there was something near to a wistful smile on his lips . |
| 3 | The shops took on a new lease of life , the street-sellers , with their lemonade and nougat , ostrich feathers , mummy-beads and scarabs , carnations and roses , and the street-artists , with their boa-constrictors and baboons , took new heart , and the city in general resumed its normal manic rhythm . |
| 4 | It only took a little adaptation for many familiar songs to take on a new life and vigour , especially with the accompaniment of timbrels , clapping and dancing . |
| 5 | Singing together unifies and inspires us ; music touches our emotions , and words take on a deeper meaning . |
| 6 | What arrogance that is , that they allowed the schools to take on the full role when over fifty percent of em were already willing and anxious to do so . |
| 7 | For some weeks their lives took on a settled pattern of difference . |
| 8 | Hedgerows take on an additional dimension on foggy days ; when the distant landscape is blotted out immediate surroundings assume a new prominence . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The corridors took on an eerie silence . |
| 11 | Grigorovich 's simplistic , ideological heroes took on a new dimension when danced with such dramatic appeal , with such virility , such fabulous jumps . |
| 12 | His judgements take on the ex-cathedra ring of a Lawrence : ‘ I believe in you as a painter . ’ |
| 13 | Because we earn no money for the bulk of our day 's work , buying things takes on a rich range of meanings . |
| 14 | As the formality of adoption receded into past history , leaving the same accumulation of problems , hope began to wane and problems took on a different perspective . |
| 15 | I was one of a group of army cadets taken on an adventurous training camp , at Newtonmore , to learn new skills . |
| 16 | With this method some structures take on a purple coloration while others take up the red counter-stain . |
| 17 | In the flickering candlelight , the withered features took on a grotesque appearance . |
| 18 | Railways , Spearman went on , had the power to break local strikes , as they had done in a recent coal strike in the United States , and the operating officers and freight-yard superintendents took on a military-style power . |
| 19 | For the next half hour the rehearsals took on a sudden lift and everyone began to dare to try things out without feeling foolish . |
| 20 | So her waking hours took on a new format . |
| 21 | These forums had been held before the move was considered to provide lines of communication between management and staff but , the company notes , these meetings took on a new usefulness when the relocation was announced . |
| 22 | If we let indicate that part of the surplus-value which serves for the personal consumption of the capitalists , and that which is turned into capital , thus , it we make and correspondingly , if we further let indicate that part of the surplus-value which is accumulated as a part of the constant capital , and that part of the surplus-value which is to be accumulated as a part of the variable capital , and thus posit and correspondingly thus the general formula for the product of both departments takes on the following form : |
| 23 | Suddenly , his inability to attract friends took on a new significance . |
| 24 | Then there were truly new beginnings , a hated Poor Law , dead and buried ; a single , uncluttered task — to improve the quality of public care ; and a specially recruited ( and largely newly trained ) new band of professionals to take on the exciting role of pioneers . |
| 25 | The group did little other than a few acts of minor sabotage , as they did n't have the arms to take on the Nazi army . |
| 26 | In that respect , physicians take on an additional burden beyond their immediate remit . |
| 27 | As a result , psychiatrists take on the crucial rule of assessor and expert witness in child care cases in which the mother has a mental or behavioural disorder . |
| 28 | In particular , the development of expert systems for use in medical , legal , commercial or educational contexts has meant that many person-computer exchanges take on a conversational quality . |
| 29 | The committee men took on a new authority . |
| 30 | However , in mid-1940 , just about the time of Dunkirk — but quite unconnected with it expansion of the milk supply to children took on a new urgency as the Ministry of Food belatedly worked out a national food policy for an island race threatened by the submarine . |