Example sentences of "[adv] took on [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ] . |
| 2 | The whole net of relationships between community and subculture , class and centralizing monopoly capitalism thus took on a different shape . |
| 3 | Torres also took on the Foreign Affairs portfolio , Vice-Adml. ( retd ) Raúl Sánchez Sotomayor being unexpectedly dropped from the Cabinet . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Eliot 's life , for the eight years still left to him , now took on a different pattern . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When Pauline and Chris Lloyd of Dudley moved house then took on a new garden with a 1 in 3 slope . |