Example sentences of "to take on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | priding themselves on their hard-headedness , they were eventually prepared to take on a poor commercial risk , or found a college as a pure give-away gesture , in order to win a richer prize — prestige . |
| 2 | And then , just as the foyer was beginning to take on a shabby , comfortable look , the lift arrived , an elegant black and gilt box with a sliding door . |
| 3 | Far better to build more advanced Airbuses for a new market than a Euro-fighter to take on a non-existent enemy which is increasingly an economic partner . |
| 4 | Far better to build more advanced Airbuses for a new market than a Euro-fighter to take on a non-existent enemy which is increasingly an economic partner . |
| 5 | This means managers have to be careful when considering whether to take on a new act . |
| 6 | AN APPLE for the teacher is about to take on a new meaning in California . |
| 7 | Within weeks Combined Operations headquarters were to take on a new vitality . |
| 8 | Although Liz Cole-Hamilton , 41 , has worked throughout her marriage , she has now decided that the time has come to take on a new challenge . |
| 9 | Julia seemed to take on a new lease of life and now that the weather was improving she often walked to Carrie 's house or to see Bridie and her family . |
| 10 | Pluralists agree with Mills that it is a post-war phenomena and arises due to the United States ' need to take on a new world role The military fill the political vacuum which exists in foreign policy-making , and this brings them into close contact with the industrial firms which prospered out of the Second World War . |
| 11 | He plans to continue his involvement with Linlithgow Union Canal Society and , added , ‘ I 'm young enough to take on a new challenge . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Announcing his departure , Hickey commented : ‘ I am leaving the post at a natural time in Filmhouse 's history and on a personal level it enables me to take on a new challenge while moving to another area of the film industry . |
| 14 | What could be more appropriate than for it to take on a great nineteenth-century house to complement the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century interiors at Ham and Osterley ? |
| 15 | But quickly she was allowed an even higher profile and last October was formally appointed party deputy chairman to take on a prominent role during the election campaign and to sell the party to the business community . |
| 16 | As she spoke the pens of the newspaper reporters seemed to take on a frantic life of their own , skipping across the lines of their notebooks . |
| 17 | ‘ Solitude enflamed the imagination of Henri K — , and gradually the parrot began to take on a rare significance in his mind . |
| 18 | After the line , ‘ gradually the parrot began to take on a rare significance in his mind ’ , he made the following annotation : ‘ Change the animal : make it a dog instead of a parrot . |
| 19 | The fact that Adorno 's thinking on the question is locked into a model which pits individual subject against reified social totality leads his picture of the social meaning of music to take on a monolithic appearance . |
| 20 | If this explained Mason 's reluctance to pressure Biggs in the middle rounds , thereby allowing the American to pepper him with jabs , it can not obscure the possibility that the British heavyweight will always experience difficulty if required to take on a long contest . |
| 21 | There is evidence that men are taking early retirement or using redundancy to take on a caring role ( Green , 1988 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ They give us a sense of achievement too because we like to take on a caring role and feel responsible . |
| 23 | The foot of the League is beginning to take on a familiar appearance as far as Athletico is concerned : |
| 24 | Life was beginning to take on a familiar shape again . |
| 25 | Then allow your goal or Dream to take on a symbolic form , and appear on the grass in front of you . |
| 26 | The protestant version has variants as to how pure this church is or whether it remains sinful , but the evangelical version which is the basic one in the North of Ireland opts absolutely for ‘ Jesus Saves ’ ; the community , no longer medium of salvation , tends to take on a visible , earthly role , an occasion of grace and a support for religious ‘ this-worldly ’ activity . |
| 27 | It was through his partnership with Bertie Fisher that Meeke 's Opel connections were established in the early Eighties and when the Spanish arm of the operation needed assistance he was asked to take on a supervisory role . |
| 28 | Despite the policy commitment to developmental work in Nottinghamshire social services department , the CMHTs were under great pressure to take on a normal casework function even in advance of developing needed services : health service priorities favoured immediate casework support ; area teams in the social services department hoped to off-load casework with mentally handicapped people — not least to focus more fully on work with children and families ; and the social workers recruited to the CMHTs were confident in their casework skills but needed to adopt new roles , skills , and ways of working if development work was to become a reality . |
| 29 | This means you 'll be on the list under both forms of your address , so no matter which form your From : address happens to take on a given day , you 'll be able to write to the list . |
| 30 | ( Given this prestige , it would he unseemly for him to take on a menial local job . ) |