Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] 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 Yet , as Samuel warns : ‘ even if nation is expelled from the class-room , it will still carry on an underground existence in the corridors and playground and an altogether more uninhibited one on television and the football terraces .
5 Wheeler , however , did not always pass on the relevant information to his assistant .
6 But they could also switch on a constitutional warning light about future treaties , as yet unwritten , calling for still closer European integration .
7 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 .
8 You should never take on an electrical job unless you know exactly what you are doing .
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